Title: Monitoring Mesozooplankton and Microzooplankton in Long Island Sound, National Coastal Assessment
Sponsor: Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (ongoing)
Title: Foodweb Support for the Threatened Delta Smelt and other Estuarine Species in Suisun Bay and the Western Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Sponsor: State of California: CALFED (2006-2009).
Title: Collaborative Research: Testing hypotheses about diversity, gene flow, and effective population size in marine planktonic ciliates
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (2007-2010).
Title: Carbon and Nitrogen Acquisition and Cycling in Heterotrophic and Mixotrophic Ciliates
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (2008-2011).
Title:LISICOS – Long Island Sound Integrated Coastal Observing System
Sponsor: NOAA. The goal of the Long Island Sound Integrated Coastal Observing System is the development of a sustained capability to observe the Long Island Sound ecosystem and an adequate capability to understand and predict its response to natural and anthropogenic changes (2005-2006).
Title: Collaborative Research: Diversity and dynamics of planktonic ciliates – what can next-generation sequencing technologies tell us?
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (2011-2014)
Title: Collaborative research: Patterns of diversity in planktonic ciliates: spatio-temporal scales and community assembly in the coastal ocean
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (2014-2017)
Title: Collaborative research: Combining single-cell and community ‘omics’ to test hypotheses about diversity and function of planktonic ciliates
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (2019-2022)
