Field Museum of Natural History

2026 · grant · Grant Awardees - Program Grants

Evolution of extreme behavioral adaptations in the bat fly, a blood-feeding parasite of bats

Marco Gallio · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by Human Frontier Science Program

2026–2029 · award

Evolution of extreme behavioral adaptations in the bat fly, a blood-feeding parasite of bats

Marco Gallio · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by Human Frontier Science Program

1.1M

2025–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

PurSUiT: New Discoveries of Early Cretaceous Floras from Northwestern Gondwana Reveal a Cradle of Plant Diversity

Fabiany Herrera · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$793.4kPlant Diversity and Evolution

2024–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: Testing Evolutionary Models of Biotic Survival and Recovery from the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction and Climate Crisis

Pia Viglietti · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$871.2kPaleontology and Evolutionary Biology

2024–2028 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: Quantifying the response of biodiverse freshwater ecosystems to abrupt and progressive environmental change

Caleb Mcmahan · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$388.2k

2024–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

Growing Collaborations and Student Training at the Elemental Analysis Facility at The Field Museum

Laure Dussubieux · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$200.3kCultural Heritage Materials Analysis

2023–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Ranges: Building Capacity to Extend Mammal Specimens from Western North America

Adam Ferguson · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$57.3kSpecies Distribution and Climate Change

2023–2025 · fellowship · Fellowship Award

Postdoctoral Fellowship: EAR-PF: Geochemical taphonomy of a rare dicynodont bonebed and its paleobiological implications of social behavior in the stem-mammalian lineage

Zoe Kulik · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$180k

2023–2025 · fellowship · Fellowship Award

EAR-PF: Respiratory physiology and survivorship during the End-Permian Mass Extinction

Jason Pardo · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$180k

2023–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: RUI: The challenges of living small: functional tradeoffs in the vertebral bone structure of diminutive mammals

Stephanie Smith · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$484.4k

2022–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: ARTS: Identifying diversity, describing species, and revising taxonomy of New Guinean snakes

Sara Ruane · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$148.9k

2022 · grant · Museums for America

Museums for America — Field Museum of Natural History (FY2022)

Field Museum of Natural History · funded by Institute of Museum and Library Services

$249.6k

2021–2023 · research · ARP-Organizations (Preservation-related)

Processing and Digitizing Important Global Heritage Collections at the Field Museum

Lauren Hancock · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Endowment for the Humanities

$217.9k

2021–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Genomics of speciation and evolution of ecological traits in a geographic radiation of island kingfishers

Chad Eliason · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$421.1k

2021 · grant · Museums Empowered: Professional Development Opportunities for Museum Staff

Museums Empowered: Professional Development Opportunities for Museum Staff — Field Museum of Natural History (FY2021)

Field Museum of Natural History · funded by Institute of Museum and Library Services

$151.7k

2021 · grant · Museums for America

Museums for America — Field Museum of Natural History (FY2021)

Field Museum of Natural History · funded by Institute of Museum and Library Services

$249.3k

2020–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities

Matt Von Konrat · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$426.7kBiocrusts and Microbial Ecology

2020–2024 · research · Exhibitions: Implementation

First Kings of Europe: The Emergence of Hierarchy in the Prehistoric Balkans

William Parkinson · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Endowment for the Humanities

$399.4k

2020–2023 · grant · Standard Grant

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Fundamental Processes of Social Change

William Parkinson · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$22.7k

2020–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Mobilizing Millions of Marine Mollusks of the Eastern Seaboard

Ruediger Bieler · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$844.8k

2020–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Comparative and temporal biodiversity genomics of Ethiopian Highland montane forest passerine birds

Ben Marks · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$252kGenetic diversity and population structure

2020–2024 · grant · Standard Grant

Support for collaborative projects in the Elemental Analysis Facility at The Field Museum

Laure Dussubieux · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$169.2k

2020–2023 · fellowship · Fellowship Award

NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology FY 2020

Andrew George · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$207k

2020 · grant · Environmental Conservation

Consolidating Andean Amazon Mosaics Through Freshwater and Terrestrial Ecosystem Connectivity

Field Museum of Natural History · funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

$744k

2020 · grant · Museums for America

Museums for America — Field Museum of Natural History (FY2020)

Field Museum of Natural History · funded by Institute of Museum and Library Services

$187.6k

2019 · grant · Environmental Conservation

An Enduring Regional Conservation System in Loreto, Peru

Field Museum of Natural History · funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

$600k

2019–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: Digitizing collections to trace parasite-host associations and predict the spread of vector-borne disease

John Bates · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$311.3k

2019–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: ARTS: Understanding Tropical Invertebrate Diversity Through Integrative Revisionary Systematics and Training

Ruediger Bieler · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$99.9k

2018–2019 · fellowship · Fellowship Award

NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology FY 2017: Historical Dynamics of Native Ant Communities of the Southeastern U.S.: Community Responses to Invasion by Exotic Ant Species

Douglas Booher · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$138kInsect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior

2018–2020 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: SG: Early evolution of the modern North American freshwater fish fauna: New Late Cretaceous sturgeons, paddlefishes, bowfins, and teleosts from North Dakota

Lance Grande · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$103.1k

2018–2019 · grant · Standard Grant

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Consumption Of Food And Social Distinction

Patrick Williams · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$15.7k

2018–2022 · grant · Continuing Grant

Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Digitizing "endless forms": Facilitating Research on Imperiled Plants with Extreme Morphologies

Christine Niezgoda · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$325.4k

2018–2021 · grant · Standard Grant

Research to Determine Brokered Boundaries

Danielle Riebe · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$127.3k

2018–2022 · grant · Standard Grant

Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: The Pteridological Collections Consortium: An integrative approach to pteridophyte diversity over the last 420 million years

Matt Von Konrat · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$234.5kFern and Epiphyte Biology

2018–2024 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Evolving the mammalian forelimb: modeling musculoskeletal transformation in the forerunners of mammals

Kenneth Angielczyk · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$456.2k

2018–2021 · grant · Standard Grant

Digitization PEN: Field Museum of Natural History Partnership with the Southwest Collection of Arthropods Network

Petra Sierwald · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$163.5k

2018–2021 · fellowship · Fellowship Award

NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology FY 2018

Stephanie Smith · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$138k

2018–2020 · grant · Standard Grant

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: The Role of Transportation in Complex Society Organization

Patrick Williams · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$16.7k

2017–2023 · grant · Standard Grant

Collaborative Research: Terrestrial Late Permian to Early Triassic Earth Systems in NE Pangea: Insights into the Tempo, Effects, and Causes of the End-Permian Mass Extinction

Kenneth Angielczyk · Field Museum of Natural History · funded by National Science Foundation

$254.6k

2017 · grant · Environmental Conservation

Greening China’s Infrastructure Finance in the Amazon

Field Museum of Natural History · funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

$295k