GSA Division Research Grants
These GSA divisions award grants for outstanding student research within the respective division's field of interest.
- Claude C. Albritton, Jr. Award
Provides research scholarships and fellowships for graduate students in the earth sciences or archaeology.
- Richard Hay Student Paper/Poster Award
Travel grant awarded to a student presenting a paper or poster at the GSA's annual meeting.
- 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.
- 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.
- Outstanding Student Research Award
- Best Student Presentation Awards
One paper is recognized from GSA annual meeting sessions sponsored by the division.
- History and Philosophy of Geology Student Award
Recognizes best proposed student (undergraduate or graduate) paper to then be given at the GSA annual meeting.
- Kerry Kelts Award
Awarded for undergraduate or graduate student research related to limnogeology, limnology, or paleolimnology.
- Peter Birkeland Soil Geomorphology Award
Support graduate research with a focus in soil geomorphology.
- J. Hoover Mackin and Arthur D. Howard Awards
Support graduate research in Quaternary geology or geomorphology (Mackin for PhD students and Howard for M.S. students).
- Marie Morisawa Award
Supports graduate research in Quaternary geology or geomorphology for female applicants at either the M.S. or Ph.D level.
- Stanley A. Schumm Research Grant Award
Support graduate research with a focus in fluvial geomorphology.
- 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.
- 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 Drilling, Geophysics 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.