Grants & Scholarships

Research Grants

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1354519.

Graduate Student Research Grants

The deadline for 2017 applications (1 Feb.) has passed. Students will be notified of their status in mid-April.
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Other Grants & Awards

• Post-Docs
  Also known as the Cole Awards
• Undergraduate Students
  Offered by the GSA Sections
• GSA Division Grants
  Offered in division fields of interest
• GSA Section Research Grants
  For undergraduate and graduate students
• Minority Scholarships
  For minority undergraduates
• On To the Future (OTF)
  Partial travel scholarship awards to those traditionally underrepresented in the geosciences. 
• Specialized Research Grants
  Graduate student research grant applicants are eligible for these specialized grants.
• Farouk El-Baz Student Research Grant
  This grant is to encourage and support desert studies by students either in their senior year of their undergraduate studies, or at the Masters or Ph.D. level.
  El-Baz Grant
  Application Form     > Current El-Baz Grant Awardees
      > El-Baz Grant Information

Travel Grants

See travel grant page for more information on …

• International
• GSA Sections

For more information on any of the Research Grant Programs contact:

Geological Society of America
P.O. Box 9140
Boulder, CO 80301-9140, USA
+1-303-357-1025
researchgrants@geosociety.org

Financial Aid

We generally do not offer scholarships to be used for tuition, housing, etc., nor do we assist students in seeking acceptance into graduate school. Please contact individual universities for information on their financial aid programs.

Pound for pound, I doubt any group has a greater impact on the course of geological research than GSA’s Committee on Research Grants.” Bruce Simonson, Past Chair, Committee on Research Grants [ more ]