ACTIVE EXTERNAL FUNDING:
Acquired since starting at UF in 2011:

NSF-DEB: GoLife: Collaborative Research: ButterflyNet–An Integrative Framework for Comparative Biology. $1.25 million to Univ. Florida, $2.5 million total, 01/01/2016-12/31/2019. Kawahara UF-PI.

NSF-DEB-NERC: Phylogenomics and Sensory Systems Evolution in Silkmoths and Relatives. $796,432 to Univ. Florida, ~$1.2 million total, start date 09/01/2016. Kawahara PI. Recommended.

NSF-DBI: Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Lepidoptera of North America Network: Documenting Diversity in the Largest Clade of Herbivores. ~$362,000 to Univ. Florida, ~$3.2 million total, start date 07/01/2016. Kawahara UF-PI. Recommended.

NSF-DBI: CSBR: Natural History Collections: Building a central database and curation improvements for The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural History (Kawahara PI, Miller, Willmott, Soltis P. co-PIs). $498,386.

NSF-DEB: ARTS: Phylogeny and systematic revision of the diverse and cryptic Euptychiina (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). (Kawahara Co-PI, Willmott PI). $470,604.

NSF-IOS: Collaborative Research: Alternative strategies and evolutionary routes in the escalation of the bat-moth arms race: Ultrasonic stridulation in hawkmoths. (Kawahara PI, Barber Co-PI). $318,045.

NSF-DEB: SG: ARTS: Hawaiian Philodoria green-island leaf mining moths: Revisionary systematics, phylogenetics and biogeography of a threatened fauna (Kawahara PI, Rubinoff Co-PI). $149,962.

NatGeo: Research and exploration of endangered Hawaiian leaf mining moths and their threatened plants: Fieldwork to discover, protect, and conserve a rare and endangered fauna. (Kawahara PI). $20,000.