Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on 27 National Science Foundation Grants out of 40 submissions totaling $9,289,836 from 1985-2024. Does not include participatory roles in other large grants from NASA Astrobiology and the Sloan Foundation funded Deep Carbon Observatory. (see separate list)
Education/Outreach Activities
Teacher/lecturer, EPL Postdoctoral Workshop Program, lecturing on job interviewing, teaching/research statements, and writing applications, 2014-2020
TJStar Lecturer, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA, 2018
USA Science and Engineering Festival, Washington DC, participant and exhibitor, 2011-2016
Smithsonian Institution, Summer Earth Science Academy for Teachers, lecturer & workshop leader, 2009-2018
Geological Society of Washington, 1st and 2nd Vice-President and President 1995,1998,1999
Geological Society of Washington, Program, Awards, and Nominations Committees, 1994, 1996, 1997
Geological Society of Washington, Councilor, 1992 to 1993
Geochemical Society, Secretary, 1989 to 1995
Conference and Meeting Organization
Co-organizer 5th International Diamond School, Bressanone Italy, 2023
Co-organizer MSA Short Course, Diamond: Genesis MIneralogy and Geochemistry, Virtual, October 2022
Co-organizer Richard W Carlson honorary symposium, A Solar System View of 4.6 Billion Years of Earth Evolution: A Celebration of the Extraordinary Career of Richard W. Carlson, Washington DC, 2022
Co-organizer MSA Centennial, The Next 100 Years of Mineral Sciences, Washington DC, 2019
Co-organizer 4th International Diamond School, Bressanone Italy, 2018
Co-organizer 3rd International Diamond School, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2016
Co-organizer 2nd International Diamond School, Bressanone Italy, 2011
Co-convener, Special Session, Formation, evolution, and destruction of cratons, 22nd Goldschmidt Conference, Montreal, QB, 2012
International Organizing Committee, 20th Goldschmidt Conference, Knoxville, TN, 2009
Co-convener, Special Session, Continents and their Lithospheric Keels, 18th Goldschmidt Conference, Vancouver, BC, 2008
Co-convener, Special Session, Mantle heterogeneity induced via ancient subduction, 17th Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne, GDR, 2007