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)
          Doug Boyer (PI), Daniel Schmitt (co-PI), Angel Zeininger (co-PI), and Gabriel Yapuncich (co-PI)
  • Leakey Foundation
          Angel Zeininger (PI) and Daniel Schmitt (co-PI)
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​Completed Grants

2016           Angel Zeininger (PI), Daniel Schmitt (co-PI), and Roshna Wunderlich (co-PI)

2014
  • Biomechanical significance of bone material variation in the locomotor skeleton (NSF BCS 1440695, $61,780)
          Daniel Schmitt (PI)
  • Gait mechanics of inverted walking: Implications for evolution of suspensory behavior (Leakey Foundation, $7,199)
          Michael Granatosky (PI)
  • The kinetics of above and below branch walking in primates and other mammals (Force and Motion Foundation, $10,000)
          Michael Granatosky (PI)
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2012
  • DDR: The biomechanics of vertical clinging and grasping in primates (NSF BCS 1155981, $18,483)
          Daniel Schmitt (PI) and Laura Johnson (co-PI)

2007
  • The evolution of diagonal sequence gaits in primates: A new approach to the problem (NSF BCS 0137930, $156,858)
          Matt Cartmill (PI), Pierre Lemelin (co-PI), and Daniel Schmitt (co-PI)

2005
  • Gait mechanics in primate and nonprimate quadrupeds (NSF BCS 0452217, $119,660)
          Daniel Schmitt (PI)
  • DDIG: Vertical climbing efficiency in primates (NSF BCS 0452631, $11,965)
          Daniel Schmitt (PI), and Jandy Hanna (co-PI)

2002
  • DR: Mechanical properties and functional morphology of mammalian foot pads (NSF IOS 0206456, $9,996)
          Louise Roth (PI), Kai Jung Chi (co-PI), Steve Vogel (co-PI), and Daniel Schmitt (co-PI)

1999
  • Mechanics of fine branch locomotion in primates and opossums: An experimental analysis of ecological convergence (NSF BCS 9904401, $55,055)
          Daniel Schmitt (PI)
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