Research Funding:

 
     
 
  • National Science Foundation DEB 1146033: Collaborative Research: The Unique Skinks of New Guinea: Diversity, Systematics, and Malaria Parasites. Austin (PI), Division of Environmental Biology, Phylogenetic Systematics. Collaborative PI is Susan Perkins (American Museum of Natural History). (2012-2016). $350,000. Read the Abstract on NSF's web site

 
 
  • National Geographic (2012). $20,000.
 
 
  • National Science Foundation DEB 0445213: Evolutionary Biogeography in the Lowland Reptile and Amphibian Fauna from New Guinea. Austin (PI), Allison (Co-PI), and Donnellan (Co-PI), Division of Environmental Biology, Population and Evolutionary Processes Cluster (2005-2010). $495,370. Read the Abstract on NSF's web site

 

 
 

 

 
 
  • National Science Foundation DEB 0408010: Dissertation Research: Population-level Genetic Differentiation During the Early Stages of a Radiation in Two Reptilian Families. Austin (PI) with Ph.D. student Alison Jennings (Co-PI), Division of Environmental Biology, Population and Evolutionary Processes Cluster (2004-2007). $12,290. Read the Abstract on NSF's web site

 

 
 
  • National Science Foundation DBI 0400797: An Automated Capillary Sequencer for Systematics, Population Genetics, Genomics, and Molecular Ecology. Biological Infrastructure. Brumfield (PI), Austin (Co-PI), Hafner (Co-PI), and Sheldon (Co-PI) (2004). $126,481. Read the Abstract on NSF's web site

 

 
 
  • National Science Foundation DBI 0115985: Acquisition of an Automated Sequencer, Biological Infrastructure. LaDuke (PI), Austin (Co-PI), Detke (Co-PI), and Young (Co-PI) (2001-2003).$185,967. Read the Abstract on NSF's web site

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 
  • National Science Foundation IBN 9311139: Dissertation Research: Molecular and Morphological Evolution in South Pacific Skinks. (1993). $17,700. Read the Abstract on NSF's web site