$171,000 PI on “Deeper insight into treatment and re-use from produced water data” for Leidos/U.S. National Energy Technology Laboratory, Oct. 2022-Dec. 2023.

$93,546 Co-PI on “Sustainable systems enabling food security in extreme environments and food deserts employing a convergence of food, energy, water, and systems” for the National Science Foundation, March - August 2021.

$178,449 PI on “Method development for preconcentration and quantification of critical and valuable elements (CVE) in Permian Basin Produced Waters” for Pioneer Natural Resources, Oct. 2020 - Sept. 2022.

$225,000 Senior Personnel on “Ten Targets for Texas: Prospective Strategic Mineral Wealth on State Lands” for the Texas General Land Office, November 2020- October 2022.

$115,000 PI on “MRI: Acquisition of inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometer for research and education uses in water, energy, and environmental sciences” for the National Science Foundation, 2020-2022.

$5.25 million Senior Personnel on “Network Cluster: Patterns and controls of ecohydrology, CO2 fluxes, and nutrient availability in pedogenic carbonate-dominated dryland critical zones” to the National Science Foundation, September 2020- August 2025

$20,000 Senior Personnel on “Space and Seed Grant Proposal to Establish a “One Water” Cluster in the Interdisciplinary Research Building, University of Texas at El Paso” to The University of Texas at El Paso, 2020.

$39,905 PI on “Technical review and feedback of the U.S. Geological Survey studies for the California Regional Groundwater Monitoring Program (RMP)” from the Western States Petroleum Association, Contract PB1901- 03, 2019-2020.

$20,000 PI (Co-PI Aaron Jubb, USGS) on “Comparative analysis of trace elements in produced waters”, USGS Technical Assistance Agreement 18EMTAA176080 with the Environmental Defense Fund, 2017.

$19,231 Co-PI (with Lin Ma, UTEP) on “Evaluating accuracy of boron, lithium, and strontium isotopic measurements of produced waters” through the Environmental Defense Fund, 2015.

$23,250 Co-I (PI = Isabelle Cozzarelli, USGS) on “Field investigations of wastewater leaks and spills related to unconventional oil and gas development” through the USGS National Research Program Topical Research Team, 2013.

$36,270 Co-PI (with Elizabeth Rowan and Katherine Skalak, USGS) on “Accumulation of Radium in Surface Sediments: The Legacy Appalachian Basin Oil and Gas Production?” through the USGS Toxic Substances Hydrology Program, 2011-2012.

$24,000 Co-PI (with Elizabeth Rowan, USGS) on “Investigating Inorganic and Radiochemical Composition of Produced and Flowback Waters from Shale Gas Production in the Appalachian Basin” through the USGS Toxic Substances Hydrology Program, 2010-2011.

$24,963 Co-I (PI = Jen O’Keefe, Morehead State Univ.) on “Measuring Carbon Flux from Coal Fires in Eastern Kentucky: Supporting the North American Carbon Program and Science Work for Current and Future Carbon-Sensing Missions by Conducting Research Involving Students” through the Kentucky Space Grant Consortium, 2009-2010.

$40,000 Co-PI (with Allan Kolker, USGS) of U.S. Geological Survey Venture Capital fund project to investigate gas emissions from coal-fires, 2008-2009 

$30,000 Research funding from U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Policy Act funding to collaborate on coalbed natural gas produced waters project, 2007-2009

$80,000 2-year research budget as part of Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellowship from the U.S. Geological Survey, 2005-2007