 Currently, Keppel-Aleks is being funded for 11 individual projects, one of which, titled "Developing a Mechanistic Understanding of Variability in the Atmospheric CO2 Growth Rate Owing to Interannual Climate Oscillations ", is a project worth over $1 million funded through NASA and the University of Michigan.Other grants and fellowships awarded to Keppel-Aleks include NASA's Earth and Space Science Fellowship and in the past, Keppel-Aleks received research grants such as one from Keck Institute for Space Studies, in which Keppel-Aleks examined patterns of photosynthesis and solar-induced fluorescence emitted from photosynthetic organisms.Keppel-Aleks has contributed many notable journal articles in her field under categories such as climate, carbon cycle, atmospheric physics, and remote sensing.