J. Steve Ashe
Grants & Awards

National Science Foundation. “Dissertation Research: Systematics and evolution of coloration in the beetle genus Nordus: A comparative study using morphological and molecular data” (Dissertation Improvement Grant for S. Chatzimanolis). $9,997 (not funded).

National Science Foundation, Supplement to "Monographic revision and phylogenetic analysis of athetine aleocharines (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Athetini)", DEB-9978110, (J. S. Ashe, P.I.), (Enhanced imaging capacity), $29,784 (funded). 

National Science Foundation, "BDEI: Biodiversity Information Organization using Taxonomy (BIOT), 28060, $99,820 Gauch, S. E., P.I. and J. S. Ashe, Co-P.I., 1 January 2002 - 31 May 2003

J. S. Ashe and Deborah Smith. UK Instructional Technology Program. $16, 060 (Funded)

J. S. Ashe. Supplement to Partnerships in aleocharine systematics (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): phylogeny of basal lineages and identification of North American and Mexican genera" (funding for web master for PEET program), $34,012 (funded).

National Science Foundation, Biological Research Collections "A specimen-level database of the North American and Mexican wild bees (Apoidea) at the University of Kansas. Resubmitted Sept. 2000, $271,550, May, 2001 - May, $235,976, P.I. Funded. (J. S. Ashe, P.I., M. Engel, co-P.I.)

National Science Foundation, Biological Research Collections "A specimen-level database of the North American and Mexican wild bees (Apoidea) at the University of Kansas. Submitted, 1999, $271,505, May, 2001 - May, 2004, declined. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

Australian Biological Resources Study, "Aleocharine staphylinids (Coleoptera) of Australia", $125,000, 2000 - 2002. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

National Science Foundation, "Monographic revision and phylogenetic analysis of athetine aleocharines (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Athetini)", DEB-9978110, $618,429, September 2000 - August 2005. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

National Science Foundation, Supplement to "Partnerships in aleocharine systematics, phylogeny of basal lineages and identification of North American and Mexican genera", DEB 95-21755, $32,704, March 1999 - March 2000. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

National Science Foundation, Supplement to "Partnerships in aleocharine systematics, phylogeny of basal lineages and identification of North American and Mexican genera", DEB 95-21755", $24,458, April 1997 - April 1998. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

University of Kansas General Research Fund, "Phylogeny of the Tachyporine lineage of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera)", $4,150, 1997-1998. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

National Science Foundation, "Biodiversity of pristine rainforests in Western Amazonia: A unique and urgent opportunity", $200,000, 1996-1998 (Co-Principal Investigator with Wm. Duellman, et al.)

National Science Foundation, First Annual PEET Workshop on Information Acquisition and Dissemination. Supplement to "Partnerships in aleocharine systematics, phylogeny of basal lineages and identification of North American and Mexican genera", DEB 95-21755, $57,224, September, 1996. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

National Science Foundation, REU Supplement to "Partnerships in aleocharine systematics, phylogeny of basal lineages and identification of North American and Mexican genera", DEB 95-21755, $5,000, May-September, 1996. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

National Science Foundation, "Partnerships in aleocharine systematics, phylogeny of basal lineages and identification of North American and Mexican genera", 5 years, 1995?2000 (extended to 2001), $634,966. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

University of Kansas General Research Fund, "Phylogeny, evolution and biogeography of intertidal rove beetles (Staphylinidae)", $8,806.50, 1995?1996. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

National Science Foundation, "Dissertation Research: Systematics and Evolution of the Cryptophygidae," 2 years, 1993?1995, $10,894. (Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for R. Leschen, Ph.D. candidate.) (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

National Geographic Society, "Forest Floor Biodiversity in the Guatemalan Highlands," 2 years, 1993?1995, $11,854 (co. P.I. with R. S. Anderson).

University of Kansas, "Improvement of Systematics in Biol. 113, Diversity of Life" (co-P.I.with M. A. Lane), 1 year, 1993?1994, $5,000.

University of Kansas, Research Development Fund," Enhanced work?study support for curation in Snow Entomological Museum," 3 years, 1993?1996, $21,000.

PEW Charitable Trusts, "Undergraduate Fellowships in Systematic Biology," 2 years, 1992?1993, 1993?1994, $50,000. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

National Science Foundation, "Improving the Usefulness of the Snow Entomological Museum to the Systematics Community," 5 years, 1988?1992, $174,191. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

National Science Foundation, "Support for the care and use of the collections of insects and other arthropods of the Field Museum of Natural History," 5 years, 1989?1993, $710,047 (J. S. Ashe P.I., transferred to A. F. Newton, Jr., 1988).

National Science Foundation, "Acquisition of new scanning electron microscope at Field Museum of Natural History," 1 year, $60,000 (Co?principal investigator with P. R. Crane, G. M. Mueller, and C. Niezgoda).

National Science Foundation, "Study of systematics, phylogenetics, biogeography and host relationships of the subtribe Bolitocharina (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)", 3 years, 1985?1988, $98,000. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

MacArthur Foundation Grant, Enotmological Expedition into the Zona Protectora, Parque Braulio Carrillo, Costa Rica, $22,000, 1987?1989. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

Rice Foundation Research Award, "Evolution, ecology and host relationships of staphylinid beetles parasitic on small mammals (Staphylinidae: Amblyopinini)," $50,000, 1986 (Co?Investigator with R. M. Timm).

Rice Foundation Research Award, "Ecology and host relationships of staphylinid beetles (Amblyopinus) in Costa Rica," $20,000, 1987 (Co?Investigator with R. M. Timm).

University of Kansas General Research Fund, "Systematics, evolution and biogeography of intertidal rove beetles (Staphylinidae) of rocky seashores," $7,663, l990?1991. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

University of Kansas General Research Fund, "Phylogenetic relationships among higher taxa of amblyopinine staphylinid beetles," $5,000, 1988?1989. (J. S. Ashe, P.I.)

British Broadcasting Company Award, "Amblyopinine beetles and their rodent hosts in Costa Rica," $1300, 1989 (co-P.I. with R. M. Timm).

September 2006