2013- Landscape management and conservation planning based on the utilization of multi-stakeholder fora as a mechanism to engage local stakeholders in Aceh, Kalimantan, and Papua, Indonesia. Funded by the USAID Indonesian Forest and Climate Support.
2013- Coupled environmental and social responses to rapidly changing condition: globalization, nationalization and environmental change in Lombok and Papua, Indonesia. Collaboration with Yeon-Su Kim, Alan Lew, Ping Ng, and Richard Hoftstetter at Northern Arizona University.
2012- Design and planning for establishing the Trans-Pacific Conservation Leadership Initiation Practicum based on the core elements of conservation entrepreneurship. Collaboration with the Insect Resources Association in Taiwan.
2012- Rapid plot monitoring design and implementation to inform forest structural, abiotic, and disturbance properties and to validate remote sensing-derived variables. Funded by the Kaibab National Forest.
2011- The Paso del Istmo Conservation Corridor in southwestern Nicaragua: rebuilding landscape connectivity and ecosystem services for wildlife conservation and sustainable community development. Collaboration with Paso Pacífico.
2011- Cocaine, cattle, and tropical forest conservation: rates of land use change and the underlying and proximate drivers of deforestation in the Río Platano region in Honduras. Collaboration with Erik Nielsen and Spencer Plumb, Northern Arizona University.
2010- Integrated spatial models of non-native plant invasion, fire risk, and wildlife habitat to support conservation of military and adjacent lands in the arid Southwest. Led by Brett G. Dickson, Steven E. Sesnie, and Thomas D. Sisk, Northern Arizona University. Funded by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, Department of Defense.
2010- A new time series remote sensing approach to mapping fine fuels in Sonoran Desert ecosystems. Led by Steven E. Sesnie, Northern Arizona University. Funded by the Joint Fire Science Program.
Grants, awards, and scholarships
2012. Scholarship from the Center for Nonprofit Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
2011. Science Foundation Arizona Bisgrove Postdoctoral Scholarship.
2008. University of Texas Graduate Dean’s Prestigious Fellowship Supplement.
2007. National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.
2007. Dorothy and Jim Doyle Scholarship.
2007-2009. University of Texas Graduate Student Professional Development Award.
2006. Robert E. Veselka Endowed Fellowship for Graduate Research Travel.
2006. Donald D. Brand Predissertation Fellowship.
2003-2009. Taipei Culture and Science Division Conference Travel Grant.
2003. Fellowship from the Organization for Tropical Studies and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
2002. Post-course Award from the Organization for Tropical Studies and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
2002-2004. University of Illinois Program of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Travel Grant.
2002, 2005. University of Illinois Graduate College Conference Travel Grant.
2001. Scholarship from the Organization for Tropical Studies.
2001-2003. Francis M. and Harlie M. Clark Research Support Grant.
2001, 04, 06. Tinker Field Research Grant.
