"Impacts of management methods and invasive plants on recruitment, competitive exclusion and successional trajectories in Texas freshwater marsh restorations." Garden Club of America Fellowship in Ecological Restoration, $8,000, 4/2006-2009, PI: C.A. Gabler.

"The effect of preexisting differences in invasive plant abundance on the impacts of Hurricane Rita on East Texas bottomland hardwood forests." NSF SGER, $48,000, 10/2005-10/2006, PI: E. Siemann.