Grants & Technical Writing

2015


Wisconsin Focus on Energy Environmental and Economic Research and Development (EERD) Program

Wisconsin Building Code Analysis II


2014


American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)

Development of the ASHRAE Design Guide for Dedicated Outdoor-Air Systems


U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

Commercial Building Operational Assessment: Market Research


Minnesota Department of Commerce, Conservation Applied Research and Development (CARD)

The Energy Conservation Potential of Displacement Ventilation Technology in Minnesota Climate Conditions


Wisconsin Focus on Energy Environmental and Economic Research and Development (EERD) Program

Wisconsin Building Code Analysis: Identifying Low-Cost, High-Impact Measures


2012


NASA, Suzaku Cycle 7, 299,000 seconds (PI)

An Unbiased Sample: Constraining Redshift Evolution with Optically-selected Clusters of Galaxies II


2011


NASA, Chandra Cycle 13, 150,000 seconds, $53,416 (PI)

Expanding the Frontiers with Chandra: Observations of the Most Massive z>0.6 Cluster of Galaxies Known


NASA, Suzaku Cycle 6, 285,000 seconds (PI)

An Unbiased Sample: Constraining Redshift Evolution with Optically-selected Clusters of Galaxies


NASA, Suzaku Cycle 6, 290,000 seconds (PI)

Observing Distant Galaxy Clusters from the Spitzer SpARCS Survey with Suzaku


2010


NASA, XMM-Newton Cycle 10, 55,000 seconds (PI)

Massive Galaxy Clusters at High-redshift from the Spitzer SpARCS Survey


NASA, XMM-Newton Cycle 10, 30,000 seconds (Co-I)

Constraining Cluster Evolution at z > 1 with the SpARCS/RCS Cluster Surveys


NASA, Astrophysics Data Analysis Program, $35,419 (Co-I)

Virgo Clusters at Redshift 0.35


NASA, Suzaku Cycle 5, 134,000 seconds, $15,933 (PI)

Deciphering Cluster Observables: Tracing the Baryons in Clusters of Galaxies


2009


NASA, Chandra Cycle 11, 160,000 seconds, $70,000 (Co-I)

Massive Galaxy Clusters at High Redshift from the Spitzer SpARCS Survey


NASA, Suzaku Cycle 4, 68,000 seconds, $15,978 (PI)

Deciphering Cluster Observables: Tracing the Baryons in Clusters of Galaxies


2008


NASA, Chandra Cycle 10, 144,000 seconds, $88,653 (PI)

Deciphering Cluster Observables: Tracing the Baryons in Clusters of Galaxies


NASA, Suzaku Cycle 3, 297,000 seconds, $18,235 (PI)

Cosmology with Clusters: Constraining Physical Differences Between X-ray and Optically Selected Samples at Moderate-z


NASA, Spitzer Cycle 5, 9.9 hrs, $18,000 (Co-I)

Activity in a z~1 Supercluster


2007


NASA, Suzaku Cycle 2, 33,000 seconds, $19,667 (PI)

A Suzaku Snapshot Survey of High-redshift Galaxy Clusters from the RCS Survey


2006


NASA, GALEX Cycle 3, 46,500 seconds (31 orbits), $83,999 (PI)

Measuring Star Formation Rates in Clusters of Galaxies With GALEX


NASA, Chandra Cycle 8, archival proposal, $65,000 (PI)

Solving the Cooling Flow Mystery: Understanding Variations in Star Formation Efficiency Using the Chandra Archive


NASA, Chandra Cycle 8, 25,000 seconds, $22,999 (Co-I)

The Halo Structure of RCS2-2327.4-0204, 2006


NASA, Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 15, 22 orbits, $77,653 (Co-I)

The Halo Structure of RCS2-2327.4- 0204


2005


NASA, XMM-Newton Cycle 5, 100,000 seconds, $46,419 (Co-I)

Diagnostics and Effects of the Outburst in Hercules-A


NASA, XMM-Newton Cycle 5, 15,000 seconds, $55,418 (PI)

Mass Constraints on High Redshift Clusters of Galaxies with XMM-Newton


NASA, Suzaku Cycle 1, 180,000 seconds, $51,401 (Co-I)

Nailing Down the Hard X-ray Inverse Compton Emission from the Radio Halo in the Coma Cluster


NASA, Suzaku Cycle 1, 135,000 seconds, $42,560 (Co-I)

Hard X-ray Inverse Compton Emission and a Merger Shock Associated with the Brightest Known Radio Relic in Abell 3667


2004


American Astronomical Society International Travel Grant, $2,000


2002


NASA Graduate Student Research Program Fellowship, $90,000


2001


Women’s Forum of Colorado Foundation, $5,000

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