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Funding Awarded

Each year the Palaeontological Association distributes grants of varying sizes to a wide range of research topics. Grants/awards (from 2014 onwards) are listed below with information on the amount granted, recipient, project, and any outcomes (e.g. publications etc...).

Awarded Funding List

Award Date	Reference	Title	Principle Applicant	Award Amount (??)
16/12/2015	PA-OE201502	The Iguanodon Restaurant – Inspiring Communities in Earth Sciences through Art	Sarah Butterworth (Emerald Ant)	8,000.00
16/12/2015	PA-OE201501	Gesture control technologies and palaeontology: exploring innovative outreach and education approaches using 3D fossil models	Dr Richard J. Butler (University of Birmingham)	4,624.00
16/12/2015	PA-SB201503	Diversity and ecology of the anomalocaridids of the Great Basin, USA	Stephen Pates (University of Oxford)	1,500.00
16/12/2015	PA-SB201502	Insights into chelicerate evolution through comparative cuticular analysis	David Marshall (University of Bristol)	634.00
16/12/2015	PA-SB201501	Braincase anatomy, phylogeny and the success of Neoceratopsia	Claire Bullar (University of Bristol)	1,500.00
16/12/2015	PA-SW201502	The Late Triassic amphibian and reptilian fauna of the Jameson Land Basin (East Greenland) and its comparison with coeval European faunas	Marco Marzola (University of Copenhagen)	1,360.00
16/12/2015	PA-RG201502	The origins of aerial breathing in terrestrial ecosystems: insights from virtual fossil reconstruction	Dr Javier Ortega-Hernández (University of Cambridge)	6,149.00
16/12/2015	PA-RG201503	The Lilliput effect: growth rate or longevity?	Dr Brett Metcalfe (VU University, Amsterdam)	5,000.00
16/12/2015	PA-UB201501	Dissecting the rise of the archosaurs	Gareth A. Coleman (University of Bristol)	1,600.00
16/12/2015	PA-UB201502	Were co-existing archaeocyathids partitioning suspended food matter by having different pore sizes, in order to reduce competition for resources?	William Jessop (University of Oxford)	800.00
16/12/2015	PA-UB201503	3D photogrammetric imaging and re-analysis of a unique Late Carboniferous footprint assemblage from Shropshire	Luke E. Meade (University of Birmingham)	1,600.00
16/12/2015	PA-UB201504	Multiple sulphur isotope studies of pyritised microbially induced sedimentary structures, Neoarchaean Ghaap Group, South Africa	Nicolette Meyer (University of St. Andrews)	1,200.00
16/12/2015	PA-UB201506	Effects of diagenetic processes on melanosome morphology in iridescent feathers	Klara Norden (University of Bristol)	1,600.00
16/12/2015	PA-OE201503	Fossils For Everyone: Palaeontology Outreach in Children’s Hospitals	Dr Shaena Montanari (University of Edinburgh)	3,100.00
16/12/2015	PA-GA201508	Experimental solutions to deep time problems in palaeontology (EGU 2016 session)	Prof. Mark Purnell (University of Leicester)	4,620.00
16/12/2015	PA-GA201507	Biomineralisation in the fossil record (EGU 2016 session)	Dr Fiona Gill (University of Leeds)	5,750.00
16/12/2015	PA-GA201505	63rd SVPCA Meeting	Dr Gareth Dyke (University of Southampton)	1,000.00
16/12/2015	PA-GA201504	Rise of Animal Life: Cambrian and Ordovician biodiversification events	Prof. El Hariri (Cadi-Ayyad University)	2,000.00
16/12/2015	PA-UB201505	3D textural analysis of tooth wear in insectivores, and its application to fossil mammals	Christopher Nedza (University of Leicester)	1,600.00
16/12/2015	PA-UB201507	Testing functional hypotheses in Cambrian cinctan echinoderms using computational fluid dynamics	James O’Shea (University of Bristol)	1,600.00
16/12/2015	PA-UB201508	Shell thickness distribution in Ordovician and Silurian rhynchonelliformean brachiopods	Gajasinghe Samarawickrama (Plymouth University)	1,600.00
16/12/2015	PA-GA201501	Evolution and Development of Vertebrate Dentition: a Festschrift in honour of Moya Meredith Smith	Dr Zerina Johanson (Natural History Museum, London)	1,000.00
16/12/2015	PA-GA201502	5th Polar Marine Diatom Workshop	Dr Barcena (University of Salamanca)	2,000.00
16/12/2015	PA-GA201503	Rooted in deep time: palaeontological contributions to systematics; 2015 Systematic Association Biennial Meeting symposium	Dr Roger Benson (University of Oxford)	1,500.00
08/10/2015	PA-GA201506	Co-evolution of life and the planet: broad-scale controls on biodiversity; 2015 GSA Annual meeting Topical Session T149	Prof. Richard Twitchett (Natural History Museum, London)	2,000.00

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