1. -The Northern California Botanists Association Research Scholarship, 2013-2014 -  “Evidence for Redefining  the Identity of Red Flowered Silene (Caryophyllaceae) in California”.
   

1. -The Lawrence R. Heckard Fund for systematic research on plants of California, The Jepson Herbarium,                   
   

   2013 -  “Evidence for Redefining the Identity of Red Flowered Silene (Caryophyllaceae) in California”.

- California Native Plant Society Education Grant 2012-13.

1. - San Francisco State Univeristy Instructional Related Research Grant (IRA), Winter 2012-13.
   

1. -The Lawrence R. Heckard Fund for systematic research on plants of California, The Jepson Herbarium,                   
   

   2009 -  “The Changing Flora of Angel Island”.

- Cornell University Fellowship Award, 2005-2006.

- National Science Foundation Undergraduate Mentoring in Ecology and Biology

   scholarship, SFSU 2003-2005.

1. -San Francisco State 2003 Student Project Showcase Award for “Plant diversity in montane meadows of the  eastern Sierra Nevada: correlating patch and landscape features with plant species richness”.
   

- U.S. Department of Defense scholarship for Science, SFSU. 2002-2003.