Selected Grants
Decoding invisibility: from genome evolution to tissue optical properties in transparent fish
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by International Human Frontier Science Program Organization · 2024 - 2027Optimal summation for maximum identification range of targets and the biophotonics of targets with ultralow reflectance
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Research Laboratory · 2025 - 2027Collaborative Research: Visual adaptations in hydrothermal vent shrimp and the role in feeding modalities and habitat selection
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2026Magnetoreception in Marine Animals and Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Long-range, GPS-free Navigation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2020 - 2025Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors Analysis and Support Services
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Northrop Grumman Corporation · 2018 - 2023The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by International Human Frontier Science Program Organization · 2018 - 2022Long-range Geomagnetic Navigation in Sea Turtles: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Localizing Magnetite-based Biological Magnetoreceptors
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2014 - 2020The Sigsbee Deep Expedition- Exploration of light in the water column below 1000m
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2017 - 2020Cleaner Shrimp and Client Fish: Combining Phylogenetics and Visual Ecology to Understand the Evolution of Mutualistic Interactions
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Geographic Society · 2015 - 2016Bioluminescence in the Deep-sea Benthos II
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Nova Southeastern University · 2015 - 2015Dynamic Camouflage in Benthic and Pelagic Cephalopods: An interdisciplinary approach to crypsis based on color, reflection, and bioluminescence
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2009 - 2015Collaborative Research: Midwater animal models: Optical measurement of metabolic transitions in transparent pelagic biota
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2009 - 2013Operation Deep-Scope 2007: Characterization of cliff ecosystems using new technologies
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2007 - 2009Collaborative Research: Transparency: Ultrastructural and biochemical specialization in muscular and ocular tissues
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2005 - 2009Selective Invisibility Based on the Differing Temporal Resolutions of Sea Turtles and Billfish Under Low Light Conditions
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2005 - 2006Mathematical Model of the Visual Abilities of Sea Turtles and Pelagic Fishes
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2003 - 2003External Relationships
- Company of Biologists
- Lund university
- Princeton University Press
- zoological lighting insitute
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