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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 (??)
17/12/2014	PA-SB201402	Community ecology of Cambrian deep marine scratch-circles	Dr Breandán MacGabhann (Edge Hill University)	750.00
17/12/2014	PA-RG201401	Comparative experimental taphonomy of marine crustaceans: clues to their fossil record	Dr Adiël Klompmaker (University of Florida)	1,900.00
17/12/2014	PA-RG201402	Phylogeny of basal sauropodomorphs: insights on the early radiation of the group and the transition to Sauropoda	Dr Alejandro Otero (Museo de La Plata)	7,684.00
17/12/2014	PA-RG201403	Evolution of biofouling and bioerosion in the early Palaeozoic of Baltica	Dr Olev Vinn (University of Tartu)	5,200.00
17/12/2014	PA-WA201401	What is the Cambrian “muscle worm”?	Dr Allison Daley (University of Oxford)	1,500.00
17/12/2014	PA-CA201401	Evolution of the oldest Mesozoic platform margin reef	William Foster (Plymouth University)	1,500.00
17/12/2014	PA-SW201401	Tournaisian chondrichthyans from the Scottish Borders	Kelly Richards (University of Cambridge)	1,442.00
17/12/2014	PA-SW201402	Ecology and evolution of British Jurassic marine reptiles	Davide Foffa (University of Edinburgh)	1,467.00
17/12/2014	PA-SB201401	Middle Triassic conodont apparatus reconstruction from China	Jinyuan Huang (Chengdu Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources)	1,500.00
17/12/2014	PA-SB201403	Pterosaur body mass, pneumaticity, and flight mechanics	Elizabeth Martin (University of Southampton)	1,500.00
17/12/2014	PA-SB201404	Fossil polychaetes from the Palaeozoic of North America	Luke Parry (University of Bristol)	1,500.00
17/12/2014	PA-SB201405	Biomechanical impact of skull sutures in Palaeognathae	Nicola Stone (University of Bristol)	784.00
17/12/2014	PA-UB201401	X-ray approaches to identification of tropical plant fossils	Neil Adams (Royal Holloway, London)	1,600.00
17/12/2014	PA-UB201402	Taphonomy of fossil embryos and the veracity of the earliest fossil record of animals	Holly Betts (University of Bristol)	1,600.00
17/12/2014	PA-UB201403	Variations in seasonality of productivity over the last 22 kyr in the bathyal NE Atlantic using foraminifera	Curtis Bracher (Plymouth University)	1,600.00
17/12/2014	PA-UB201404	A pilot multidisciplinary analysis of a new shelfal succession through the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event	Alex Hudson (University of Southampton)	1,600.00
17/12/2014	PA-UB201405	Palaeogene and Neogene hydrocarbon seep molluscs from the Caribbean Region	Jordan Bestwick (University of Leeds)	1,600.00
17/12/2014	PA-UB201406	Stomatal distribution in the living fossil Ginkgo biloba	Ruth Hodge (University of Nottingham)	1,400.00
17/12/2014	PA-UB201407	The late Devonian mass extinction phase: new data from the British marine fossil record	Ian Smith (Plymouth University)	1,200.00
17/12/2014	PA-UB201408	Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs): a new measure for the early Silurian palaeobiodiversity of New York State, USA	Laurenz Schröer (Ghent University)	1,600.00
17/12/2014	PA-UB201409	Feeding ecology of the deep bodied fish Dapedium granulatus from the lower Lias of Dorset	Fiann Smithwick (University of Bristol)	1,600.00
17/12/2014	PA-UB201410	On the evolution and function of colour patterns in moray eels	James Teoh (University of Bristol)	1,200.00
17/12/2014	PA-RG201501	Resolving the evolutionary relationships of the Ediacaran biota with new quantitative methods	Dr Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill (University of Cambridge)	3,965.00

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