Here is a list of current federally funded projects. Click individual title for details...

Comprehensive Biotic Survey of Philippine Land Vertebrates and their Parasites (National Science Foundation Biotic Surveys and Inventories program funding)

Comparative Phylogeography of a Dynamic Archipelago (NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant to Jamie Oaks)

Integrative Morphological Evolution in Philippine Forest Lizards of the Genus Sphenomorphus (NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant support to Charles Linkem) (Read NSF ABstract)

Comparative Biogeography of Sulawesi - Phylogenetic and Coalescent Analyses of Diversification in Frogs, Lizards, and Monkeys (NSF Systematics Panel funding)

Establishing Conservation Priorities for Philippine Tarsiers (Tarsius syrichta) Using Phylogeographic Techniques to Identify Evolutionary Significant Units (National Geographic Society foundation support).

Past Projects

Evolutionary Processes of Diversification in Small Mammals of Island Archipelagos of SE Asia (Dissertation work of Jake Esselstyn)

Historical Processes and Genetic Implications of Limb Reduction and Loss in an Island Skink Lineage (NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant support to Cameron Siler)

AmphibiaTree—an Integrated, Phylogenetic and Bioinformatic Approach to the Tree of Amphibians (with support from NSF Tree of Life program).

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Biodiversity Surveys in the Southern Borderlands of the People’s Republic of China (NSF Biotic Surveys and Inventories program funding)