Grants Awarded:

External

• 2005-2008 NSF Biological Research Collections, "Hymenopteran Biodiversity Informatics at the Illinois Natural History Survey", $436,558 over 3 years (with S. Cameron, C. Favret, J. Marlin, A. Suarez)
• 2006-2007 NSF/NCSA/Teragrid MRAC Allocation, "Supercomputer Phylogenetic Analysis of a Rapid Evolutionary Radiation of Insect Parasitoids", 70,000 node hours
• 2008-2009 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Project (DDEP), Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) “Americas Program: Exploring the Diversification of Microgastrine Wasps (Braconidae) from the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (Costa Rica)” awarded to J.J. Rodriguez, co-PI J.B. Whitfield and international collaborator D.H. Janzen, ACG Technical Advisor, $9,733 over 1 year
• 2007-2010 NSF Biotic Surveys and Inventories, "Caterpillars and Parasitoids in the Eastern Andes of Ecuador" (renewal with L. Dyer, P. DeVries, T. Walla, S. Shaw), $93,000 over 3 years (also REU Supplement for $4,000)
• 2007-2011 NSF Revisionary Systematics, "Systematics of heterospiline Doryctinae in Costa Rica" (with Paul Marsh), $480,000 over 4 years