Funding

Our lab members, collaborators, and colleagues make fundamental discoveries about how organisms cope with severe environmental challenges, and how the complex physiological traits that provide resilience to these challenges evolve. These discoveries have implications for improving human health and predicting organismal resilience on a rapidly changing planet, two of humanity's most pressing problems. We help to train the next generation of scientists, wildlife biologists, biomedical professionals, the very people who will help us meet these impending challenges, through our teaching and outreach activities. All of these activities cost money.  We spend it to employ scientists and students, buy specialized equipment and chemical reagents, and travel to our field sites to conduct our research. It even costs money to publish and share our results. 

We have been fortunate to be funded by taxpayers through various federal and state agencies and through donors to private organizations. We are extremely grateful for this support, and we work hard to stretch every dollar.

If you would like to directly support our work and make a donation - we have more ideas and energy than we do dollars - please contact us. To indirectly support our work, and that of other scientists across the US, you can contact your legislators and urge them to support the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and other federal agencies that fund basic and applied science in the US. 

A very sincere thank you to our current, recent, and future supporters! 

Current Funding

2023-2027: National Science Foundation IOS-2245515: Collaborative Research: Predicting novel interactions between parasitic botflies and high-elevation deer mice under climate change.

2021-2026: National Institutes of Health R01 HL159061-01A1: Genomic and physiological mechanisms of hypoxia adaptation in high altitude mice.

2020-2024: National Science Foundation DEB-1928871: Collaborative Research: RoL: Local adaptation, hybrid breakdown, and species barriers in North American chickadees.

Past Awards

2020-2023: National Institutes of Health R15 HD103925: Understanding the etiology of altitude-related obstetric complications through evolutionary adaptation.

2017-2023: National Science Foundation OIA 1736249: RII Track-2 FEC: Using Natural Variation to Educate, Innovate, and Lead (UNVEIL): A collaborative research network to advance genome to-phenome connections in the wild.

2018-2022: National Science Foundation IOS-1755411: Collaborative Research: Physiological and regulatory mechanisms of the attenuation of maladaptive plasticity in highland deer mice.

2016-2019: National Science Foundation DBI 1561748: Securing the collection of University of Montana's Zoological Museum.

2017-2018: MPG Ranch. Habitat Quality, Stress, and Energetics of Birds in Restored Habitats, Year 2.

2014-2017: National Science Foundation IOS 1354934: Mechanisms and evolution of thermogenic capacity in high-altitude deer mice.

2014-2017: IOS 144161: RAPID: Using an extreme climatological event to inform the evolutionary systems biology of thermogenic performance in deer mice.

2016-2017: Z.A. Cheviron (PI) & N.R. Senner (co-PI). University of Montana. UGP 2016: The evolution and persistence of extremophiles in an era of rapid environmental change.

2016-2017: MPG Ranch. Avian Stress and energetics as response to restoration treatments.

2013-2014: Grand Teton National Park Service: Exploring the physiological mechanisms and ecological consequences of energetic tradeoffs: an integrative study of the influences of avian malarial infection on thermogenic performance

2012-2013: University of Illinois Research Board: The energetics, ecology, and evolution of hybrid breakdown in North American Chickadees.