Cole Research Grant Awards

Application deadline is 15 February each year.

W. Storrs Cole Memorial Research Award

The W. Storrs Cole Memorial Research Award was established to support research in invertebrate micropaleontology. It will be given each year to a GSA Member or Fellow between 30 and 65 years of age who has published one or more significant papers on micropaleontology. Funds cannot be used for work already accomplished, but recipients of a previous award may reapply if additional support is needed to complete their work.

W. Storrs Cole passed away on June 14, 1989, at the age of 86. Dr. Cole had been a Fellow of GSA for 58 years and was one of the Society's leading benefactors. The first presentation of this award was in 1991.

Recipients:

2024 - Jonathan Schueth, University of Nebraska, Omaha
2023 - Simon F. Mitchell, The University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica
2022 - Pete van Hengstum, Department of Marine and Coastal Environmental Science, Texas A&M University
2021 - Qing Tang, Virginia Tech
2020 - No award was given in 2020
2019 - Ashley M. Burkett, Oklahoma State University
2018 - Dorothy Pak, UCSB, Marine Science Institute
2017 - Jessica Pilarczyk, University of Southern Mississippi
2016 - Phoebe A. Cohen, Williams College
2015 - Soma Baranwal, CAGE, University of Tromso
2014 - Miriam E. Katz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2013 - Susannah M. Porter, University of California Santa Barbara
2012 - Eduardo Leorri, East Carolina University
2011 - Atsushi Ando, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
2010 - Richard H. Fluegeman, Ball State University
2009 - Michael A. Kaminski, University College London
2008 - Lance L. Lambert , University of Texas, San Antonio
2007 - Benjamin P. Horton, University of Pennsylvania
2006 - Amelia E. Shevenell, University of Washington
2005 - Daniela Natalie Schmidt, Bristol University
2004 - Catherine E. Stickley, Cardiff University
2003 - Joan M. Bernhard, University of South Carolina
2002 - John R. Groves, University of Northern Iowa
2001 - No Award Given
2000 - No Award Given
1999 - T. Markham Puckett, University of Alabama
1998 - Susan T. Goldstein, University of Georgia
1997 - Charles A. Ross, Bellingham, Washington
1996 - Ellen Thomas, Wesleyan University
1995 - Barun Kumar Sen Gupta, Louisiana State University
1994 - Pamela Hallock Muller, University of South Florida
1993 - Jere H. Lipps, University of California, Berkeley
1992 - William A. Berggren, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1991 - Robert C. Thunell, University of South Carolina

Gladys W. Cole Memorial Research Award

The Gladys W. Cole Memorial Research Award is restricted to investigation of the geomorphology of semiarid and arid terrains in the United States and Mexico. It will be given each year to a GSA Member or Fellow between 30 and 65 years of age who has published one or more significant papers in geomorphology. Funds cannot be used for work already accomplished, but recipients of a previous award may reapply if additional support is needed to complete their work.

The Gladys W. Cole Memorial Research Fund was established in 1980 by Dr. W. Storrs Cole in memory of his wife. The first award was presented in 1982. Dr. Cole passed away in 1989. He had been a fellow of GSA for 58 years and was one of the Society's leading benefactors.

Recipients:

2024 - Tyler Huth, Washington University, St. Louis
2023 - No award given.
2022 - No award given.
2021 - Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University
2020 - Judson Finley, Utah State University
2019 - Glenn Thackray, Idaho State University
2018 - Joan Florsheim, University of California, Santa Barbara
2017 - No award given.
2016 - Sara L. Rathburn, Colorado State University
2015 - Lyman P. Persico, Mercyhurst University
2014 - Kyle Nichols, Skidmore College
2013 - Thad A. Wasklewicz, East Carolina University
2012 - Vance T. Holliday, University of Arizona
2011 - David W. Marchetti, Western State College of Colorado
2010 - Kathleen Nicoll, University of Utah
2009 - Mark R. Sweeney, University of South Dakota
2008 - Benjamin J.C. Laabs, SUNY Geneseo
2007 - Martha Cary Eppes, University of North Carolina Charlotte
2006 - Elizabeth B. Safran, Lewis and Clark College
2005 - Kenneth Errol Lepper, North Dakota State University
2004 - J Elmo Rawling, 3rd, University of Wisconsin, Platteville
2003 - David E. Wilkins, Boise State University
2002 - Cassandra Rose Fenton, University of Utah
2001 - Dorothy Sack, Ohio University
2000 - Joel L. Pederson, Utah State University
1999 - Grant A. Meyer, Middlebury College
1998 - Steven L. Forman, University of Illinois
1997 - Peter U. Clark, Oregon State University
1996 - Vance Terrell Holliday, University of Wisconsin
1995 - Robert S. Anderson, University of California, Santa Cruz
1994 - Ellen Eva Wohl, Colorado State University
1993 - Nicholas Lancaster, Desert Research Institute
1992 - R. Craig Kochel, Bucknell University
1991 - Stephen Gene Wells, University of New Mexico
1990 - No Award Given
1989 - No Award Given
1988 - Richard A. Young, SUNY Geneseo
1987 - No Award Given
1986 - Peter W. Birkeland, University of Colorado
1985 - Athol D. Abrahams, SUNY at Buffalo
1984 - William L. Graf, Arizona State University
1983 - No Award Given
1982 - William J. Breed, Flagstaff, Arizona

Applications must be completed by 15 February each year to be eligible for the award, which is awarded in May.

GSA requires that no award funds be used for institutional overhead or other 'indirect' costs.

For additional information please contact:

Grants, Awards & Recognition
Geological Society of America
P.O. Box 9140
Boulder, CO 80301-9140
(303) 357-1025
awards@geosociety.org

Receiving the W. Storrs Cole Award was both an incredible boost to my early career research and allowed for me to work with a talented undergraduate student who now has hands-on research experience that will help them achieve their career goals. As a pre-tenured faculty member, receiving the award was also important for my career progression and will lead to future research opportunities."
Jon Schueth, University of Nebraska, Omaha