FUNDING
The Animal Locomotion Lab has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Leakey Foundation, and the Force and Motion Foundation.
Active Grants
2020
- Measuring leaping performance, evaluating its anatomical correlates, and reconsidering the importance of leaping in primate origins and early evolution (NSF BCS 2020434, $158,544)
- Leakey Foundation
Completed Grants
2016
2014
2012
2007
2005
2002
1999
- Ontogeny of heel-strike in hominoids (NSF BCS 1517561, $84,266)
2014
- Biomechanical significance of bone material variation in the locomotor skeleton (NSF BCS 1440695, $61,780)
- Gait mechanics of inverted walking: Implications for evolution of suspensory behavior (Leakey Foundation, $7,199)
- The kinetics of above and below branch walking in primates and other mammals (Force and Motion Foundation, $10,000)
2012
- DDR: The biomechanics of vertical clinging and grasping in primates (NSF BCS 1155981, $18,483)
2007
- The evolution of diagonal sequence gaits in primates: A new approach to the problem (NSF BCS 0137930, $156,858)
2005
- Gait mechanics in primate and nonprimate quadrupeds (NSF BCS 0452217, $119,660)
- DDIG: Vertical climbing efficiency in primates (NSF BCS 0452631, $11,965)
2002
- DR: Mechanical properties and functional morphology of mammalian foot pads (NSF IOS 0206456, $9,996)
1999
- Mechanics of fine branch locomotion in primates and opossums: An experimental analysis of ecological convergence (NSF BCS 9904401, $55,055)