GSA Corporate Sponsors
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Geological Society of America?
GSA brings together thousands of geoscientists, from seasoned professionals to committed students, who represent the best and the brightest hopes for the future of earth science. Your partnership helps to increase the vitality of the exceptional programs and activities offered at GSA meetings and throughout the year.
ExxonMobil
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| On 2 May, 2011, Bob Stewart (center) from ExxonMobil presented Joaquin Ruiz, GSA President (left), and Jack Hess, GSA Executive Director (right), a check in the amount of $40,000. Click on photo for larger image. |
ExxonMobil is committed to supporting geoscience students, their education and traditional field camp training.
These funds are being used to create two new GSA/ExxonMobil Field Awards.
1. GSA/ExxonMobil Field Camp Excellence Award
The GSA/ExxonMobil Field Camp Excellence Award is being presented to a field camp based on its safety awareness, diversity, and technical excellence. This year’s winner was given $10,000 to use toward this summer's field camp. |
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Missouri University of Science and Technology |
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2. GSA/ExxonMobil Field Camp Scholars Award
The GSA/ExxonMobil Field Camp Scholar Award, is being presented to twelve undergraduate students to help them cover the costs of attending a summer field camp of their choice. These 12 checks for $2,000 each were awarded based on diversity, economic/financial need, and merit. This year’s winners are listed below. |
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| Michelle Aigner, Arizona State University Daniel Ashe, University of Memphis Shan Bi, Missouri University of Science and Technology Assonman Degny, Mississippi State University Megan Drinnan, Sacramento State University Calista Guthrie, Mississippi State University |
Kimmaree Horvath, University of Akron Christopher Keefe, State University of New York, College at Oneonta Heather Krivos, Kent State University Jena Long, Miami University Alexander Rytel, Ohio State University Junzhe Sun, Missouri University of Science and Technology |
ExxonMobil has a long history of supporting geoscience education in conjunction with GSA. Each summer they teach the ExxonMobil/GSA Bighorn Basin Fieldschool, and at our Annual Meeting, they teach Sequence Stratigraphy, Structural Analysis and Basin Analysis. The Field Camp Excellence Award and the Field Camp Scholarship Awards are additional examples of their commitment to geoscience students and education.
Subaru of America, Inc.
Subaru of America generously donates resources to help GSA
further its mission in a variety of ways.
Read on.
Scholarships
Subaru, in partnership with GSA, has generously funded a new scholarship program to benefit undergraduate minorities considering a degree in the geosciences. The Subaru Minority Student Scholarship Program provides $1500 to one student at an accredited university or college in each of the six North-American GSA Regional Sections and in a World Bank designated low-income country from the International Section as nominated by a GSA Campus Representative. The student also receives a free registration to the GSA Annual Meeting that year and complimentary membership to GSA for one year. The purpose of the award is to encourage minority students to continue studies in the geosciences as a possible degree choice.
The recipients of the 2011 Subaru Minority Student Scholarship are:
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| Northeastern | Sabrina M. Tucker, Kent State University |
| Southeastern | Natalie E. Sievers, University of Maryland |
| North-Central | Jena Long, Miami University-Ohio |
| South-Central** | Christine Chesley, University of Miami |
| Rocky Mountain | Ethan J. Rice, Colorado State University |
| Cordilleran | Lisa Kant, University of Puget Sound |
| International | Sriparna Saha, Jadavopur University, India |
**No nominations were submitted from the South-Central Section for 2011. The second highest ranked student from all Sections
was selected to receive this award.
Applications for the 2012 Program will be sent to GSA Campus Reps in January.
Subaru VIP Partners Program
GSA members may be elligible to SAVE up to $3,300
on a new Subaru. Now that's a member benefit!
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Women in Science Fund
Subaru funds the Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award, a prestigious award highlighted at the GSA Annual Meeting each year.
Education and Outreach Programs
Like geocaching — an adventure game for Global Positioning System (GPS) users to cache and find locations with actual hidden items — an EarthCache™ adventure is treasure-hunting for the caches that Earth has stored. EarthCache sites do not use containers; their treasure is the lessons people learn about our planet when they visit the site.
Subaru also sponsors the Women in Geoscience Mentoring Event at the GSA Annual Meeting, which addresses issues faced by women in geology.
GSA Annual Meetings
Subaru is traditionally a major sponsor for the GSA Annual Meeting.
In 2010, Subaru sponsored a field trip at the Annual Meeting in Denver. Click for more info
Corporate Vehicles
Two vehicles are provided to GSA for company use. These vehicles are emblazoned with images and logos that project the Society mission at the same time offering great visibility for Subaru. This year, we have two Outbacks that are being used for GSA business and also offered to GSA employees for carpooling.