GSA Division Research Grants

These GSA divisions award grants for outstanding student research within the respective division's field of interest.

Geoarchaeology

Energy Geology  

  • Antoinette Lierman Medlin Scholarship
    Presented for the completion of laboratory/analytical research and for the completion of fieldwork for graduate students studying coal science.
  • Best Paper Award
    One paper is recognized from GSA annual meeting sessions sponsored by the division.

Environmental and Engineering Geology

  • Roy J. Shlemon Meeting Awards
    Given to graduate and undergraduate students to encourage participation in field trips and short courses held at annual and sectional meetings.
  • Roy J. Shlemon Scholarship Awards
    Given to graduate students with the best research proposals within the broad field of environmental and engineering geology.

Geobiology and Geomicrobiology

Geology and Society

History and Philosophy of Geology

Limnogeology

  • Kerry Kelts Award
    Awarded for undergraduate or graduate student research related to limnogeology, limnology, or paleolimnology.

Planetary Geology

Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology

Sedimentary Geology

  • Stephen E. Laubach Structural Diagenesis Research Award
    Graduate students, postgraduate and faculty level researchers are eligible.  This Award promotes research combining structural geology and diagenesis, and curriculum development in structural diagenesis. To help promote the cross disciplinary emphasis of this annual award, the Sedimentary Geology and Structural Geology & Tectonics Division have been designated to jointly select the recipient.

Structural Geology & Tectonics

  • Stephen E. Laubach Structural Diagenesis Research Award
    Graduate students, postgraduate and faculty level researchers are eligible.  This Award promotes research combining structural geology and diagenesis, and curriculum development in structural diagenesis. To help promote the cross disciplinary emphasis of this annual award, the Sedimentary Geology and Structural Geology & Tectonics Division have been designated to jointly select the recipient.

The Committee on Research Grants will select candidates from the general research grant program for awards by the Continental Scientific DrillingGeophysics and Geodynamics (Allan V. Cox Award), History and Philosophy of Geology (Aldrich Award), Karst (Hess), Hydrogeology, Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology (Carmichael, Lipman, MGPV), Sedimentary Geology, and Structural Geology and Tectonics Divisions.

For more Division information, please visit the GSA Divisions Web page.