Current Projects
| Project Name | Funding Source | Collaborators |
| CAREER: Ancient river and floodplain dynamics: a research and education plan for improving paleoenvironmental reconstructions and stratigraphic prediction | NSF EAR Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology | |
| Collaborative Research: The response of calcareous nannoplankton to ocean acidification during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum | NSF OCE Ocean Acidification | Tim Bralower, PI Kate Freeman, Lee Kump, Jim Zachos, co-Investigators |
| Collaborative Research: Patagonian fossil floras, the keys to origins, biogeography, biodiversity, and survival of the Gondwanan rainforest biome | NSF DEB | Peter Wilf, PI Nestor Cuneo, co-Investigator |
| Evaluating the role of sediment-transport dynamics in organic carbon burial and preservation | ACS-PRF | Kate Freeman |
| Integrated geoscience and engineering approach to predicting scale breaks in sedimentary deposits: connecting depositional processes to physical rock properties | Penn State College of EMS | Zuleima Karpyn |
Projects under development
| Collaborative Research: Reconstructing paleo-sediment flux from river deposits: toward quantifying sediment discharge from bedform to basin scale | Proposal with Vamsi Ganti (UCSB) submitted to NSF |
| Collaborative Research: Community tools for automated paleoenvironmental interpretation from sedimentary field data | Proposal with Ryan Ewing and Tracy Hammond (Texas A&M) submitted to NSF |
| Constraining thresholds for feedbacks between surface- and deep-Earth processes during rift evolution | Proposal with Roman DiBiase, Kevin Furlong, Sarah Ivory, Andy Nyblade, and Andy Smye (PSU) submitted to NSF |
Past Projects
| Fossil occurrences, associations, and taphonomy in a sequence-stratigraphic framework: testing predictions in the San Andres Formation (Middle Permian, New Mexico) | ACS PRF | Mark Patzkowsky, PI |
| Collaborative Research: Defining controls on incisional avulsions in alluvial basins | NSF EAR Geomorphology and Landuse Dynamics | Doug Edmonds, Collaborator |
| Collaborative Research: Statistical methods for quantifying autogenic stratigraphy in alluvial basins | NSF EAR Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology | Kyle Straub, Collaborator |
| Fine sediment storage and bypass in sandy fluvial systems | ACS PRF |