Extramural Lab Funding, 2002–2023

2023
National Institutes of Health, Cowie, Rollins. Antiparasitic agent discovery from natural products for the treatment of a globally emerging disease. $400,125.

George F. Straub Trust of the Hawaii Community Foundation, Cowie, Rollins. Snail food preferences: breaking the rat lungworm transmission chain in Hawai‘i. $60,000.

Summer Institutes in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases Scholarship, Rollins. University of Washington. $3,185.

2020
George F. Straub Trust of the Hawaii Community Foundation, Cowie, Rollins. The importance of snail slime in transmission of rat lungworm disease. $50,000.

2019
National Institutes of Health, Cowie. INBRE - COBRE Natural product drug discovery for an emerging parasitic nematode disease. $145,320.

National Institutes of Health, Cowie. COBRE pilot project. Burden of Angiostrongylus cantonensis larvae in juvenile Parmarion martensi in Hawaii. $20,000.

2018
State of Hawaii Department of Health. Cowie. Training and education of Department of Health (DOH) staff on the various snails/slugs of public health concern in the state of Hawaii. $41,632.

2017
Malacological Society of London. Sommer. Life histories of veronicellid slugs in Hawaii. £1,205.

National Science Foundation. Yeung. Revisionary systematics of the highly threatened Achatinellidae: an integrative phylogenetic approach. $479,877.

2016
National Science Foundation. Yeung, Cowie. Housing, databasing, digitizing and accessibility upgrades to the largest Pacific Island land snail collection (Bishop Museum). $495,633.

2014
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Yeung, Cowie. Hawaiian land snails extinction prevention: assessing a vanishing fauna. $106,047.

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Matsukura. Clarification of the invading process of freshwater apple snails in the genus Pomacea. $107,600.

2013
Bishop Museum. Yeung. Student internship in malacology. $12,000.

State of Hawaii, Division of Forestry and Wildlife. Yeung. Use of eugenol in the Kaala bog and the potential impacts on non-target native snails, particularly the rare endemic species Kaala subrutila. $5,857.

Unitas Malacologica Travel Grant for World Congress of Malacology. Leung. A preliminary phylogeny of Hawaiian Helicinidae. €800.

American Malacological Sociey Melbourne R. Carriker Student Research Grant. Leung. Systematics, evolution, and conservation of the imperiled Helicinidae in Hawaii. $1,000.

National Science Foundation. Cowie, Hayes. REVSYS: A revision of New World Ampullariidae: an emerging model system in evolutionary biology and systematics training. Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplement. $6,250.

National Science Foundation. Hayes, Cowie, Yeung. Hawaiian land snail biodiversity: systematics, phylogenetics and conservation status of a vanishing fauna. Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplement. $7,500.

National Science Foundation. Hayes, Cowie. Hawaiian land snail biodiversity: systematics, phylogenetics and conservation status of a vanishing fauna. Research Opportunity Award Supplement. $25,000.

2012
Bishop Museum. Yeung. Student internship in malacology. $8,000.

Malacological Society of London. Takebayashi. Morphology, evolution and phylogenetics of corpuscles, unique apple snail endosymbionts. £1,500

US Department of Agriculture. Cowie, Hollyer. Post-harvest management of slugs and snails potentially carrying rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) on Hawaiiʼs farms and gardens. $109,955.

National Science Foundation. Cowie, Hayes. REVSYS: A revision of New World Ampullariidae: an emerging model system in evolutionary biology and systematics training. Research Opportunity Award Supplement. $19,815.

National Science Foundation. Cowie, Hayes. REVSYS: A revision of New World Ampullariidae: an emerging model system in evolutionary biology and systematics training. Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplement. $7,500.

National Science Foundation. Hayes, Cowie, Yeung. Hawaiian land snail biodiversity: systematics, phylogenetics and conservation status of a vanishing fauna. Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplement. $7,500.

2011
National Science Foundation. Hayes, Cowie. Collaborative Research: U.S.-Uruguay-Brazil: IRES AMPLIFIED: Ampullariidae Model using Phylogeography, Laboratory Integration with Field Investigations into Ecology and Diversity. $150,000 (University of Hawaii portion $77,877).

U.S. Army Garrison Oahu. Cowie. Alien snail control. $49,684.

National Science Foundation. Hayes, PI Cowie, Yeung. Hawaiian land snail biodiversity: systematics, phylogenetics and conservation status of a vanishing fauna. $650,000.

National Science Foundation. Cowie, Hayes. REVSYS: A revision of New World Ampullariidae: an emerging model system in evolutionary biology and systematics training. Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplement. $7,500.

U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cowie. Understanding and managing health risks associated with the nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis – the rat lungworm. $48,000.

2010
U.S. Army Garrison Oahu. Yeung. Assessment of the current distribution, potential for continued spread, and population density of Oxychilus alliarius on Oahu, Hawaii. $58,813.

American Malacological Sociey. Curry. Oxychilus alliarius: an overlooked invasive predatory snail in Hawaii: systematics, phylogeography and impacts on native fauna. $750.

American Malacological Society. Kim. Land snail and slug hosts of the rat lung worm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, in Hawaii. $750.

Hawaiian Malacological Sociey. Kim. Land snails and slugs as hosts of the rat lung worm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, in the Hawaiian Islands. $1,485.

National Science Foundation. Cowie. REVSYS: A revision of New World Ampullariidae: an emerging model system in evolutionary biology and systematics training. $499,999.

2009
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cowie. Invasive alien species of terrestrial snails and slugs in Hawaii (year 6). $62,624.

Conchologists of America. Skelton. A molecular approach to introduced Hawaiian subulinid taxonomy. $1,000.

2008
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Sugiura. Impacts of alien ants and flatworms on native land snails in the Hawaiian Islands. $100,990.

U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cowie. Invasive alien species of terrestrial snails and slugs in Hawaii (year 5). $72,999.

Malacological Society of London. Meyer. Ecosystem services provided by terrestrial Mollusca in Hawaiian rainforests. £1,000.

2007
U.S. Department of the Interior. Cowie, Meyer. Feeding ecology, microhabitat utilization, population size estimates, and possible control of the introduced predatory snail Euglandina rosea on Oahu (year 3). $33,193.

National Science Foundation EPSCoR REAP. Holland, Cowie. Phylogeography of the endemic Hawaiian achatinellid land snails. $29,325.

National Science Foundation. Cowie, Meyer. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Ecosystem services provided by terrestrial Mollusca in Hawaiian rainforests. $11,990.

U.S, Department of Agriculture. Cowie. Invasive alien species of terrestrial snails and slugs in Hawaii (year 4). $63,778.

Unitas Malacologica Travel Grant for World Congress of Malacology. Hayes. Molecular systematics and evolutionary patterns of diversification in New World Ampullariidae. $1,100.

2006
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cowie. Invasive alien species of terrestrial snails and slugs in Hawaii (year 3). $54,187.

US Department of the Interior, Cowie, Meyer. Feeding ecology, microhabitat utilization, population size estimates, and possible control of the introduced predatory snail Euglandina rosea on Oahu (year 2). $45,892.

Conchologists of America . Meyer. Life histories, population densities, and habitat preferences of native Hawaiian succineid snails. $1,500.

2005
American Malacological Society. Hayes. Systematics, phylogeography, and evolution of South American apple snails (Pomacea). $1,000.

Conchologists of America . Hayes. Molecular systematics, phylogeography, and evolution of apple snails (Pomacea spp). $1,500.

Conchologists of America . Holland. Evolutionary patterns of big snail radiations on small islands. $1,500.

Conchologists of America . Meyer. The status of native Hawaiian snails and the threats they face. $1,500.

Sea Grant Program Development Fund. Holland. Molecular systematic status of Hawaiian box jellyfish. $9,814.

Sea Grant Biennium Institutional Program. Holland. Genetic partitions and stock structure in Hawaiian opihi (Gastropoda: Cellana spp.). $74,276.

Unitas Malacologica. Hayes. Systematics, phylogeography, and evolution of South American apple snails (Pomacea spp.). $1,100.

U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cowie. Invasive alien species of terrestrial snails and slugs in Hawaii (year 2). $35,000.

U.S. Department of the Interior. Cowie, Meyer. Feeding ecology, microhabitat utilization, population size estimates, and possible control of the introduced predatory snail Euglandina rosea on Oahu (year 1). ($27,613)

2004
Conchologists of America . Hayes. Systematics, phylogeography, and evolution of South American apple snails (Pomacea). $1,500.

Conchologists of America . Holland. Retracing colonization pathways of Pacific Island succineid land snails. $1,500.

National Park Service. Holland. Defining genetic stock structure in opihi, $27,000.

Sea Grant Program Development Fund. Holland. Genetic partitions and stock structure in Hawaiian opihi (Gastropoda: Cellana sp.). $9,920.

U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cowie. Invasive alien species of terrestrial snails and slugs in Hawaii (year 1). $35,000.

U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cowie. Economic impacts of apple snails on taro culture in Hawaii. $22,000.

Western Society of Malacologists. Hayes. Systematics, phylogeography, and evolution of South American apple snails (Pomacea). $300.

2003
National Science Foundation. Cowie, Holland. Revision and phylogeographic analysis of Pacific island succineid land snails. $400,086.

2002
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cowie. Identity and origins of apple snail pests. $118,329.

State of Hawaii, Department of Land and Natural Resources. Cowie. Development of a Safe Harbor Agreement in conjunction with restoration of Waahila Ridge, Oahu . $95,580.

Last update: 5 October 2023