GSA Division Research Grants

Presented for the completion of laboratory/analytical research and for the completion of fieldwork for graduate students studying coal science.

One paper is recognized from GSA annual meeting sessions sponsored by the division.

Given to graduate and undergraduate students to encourage participation in field trips and short courses held at annual and sectional meetings.

Given to graduate students with the best research proposals within the broad field of environmental and engineering geology.

One paper is recognized from GSA annual meeting sessions sponsored by the division.

Recognizes best proposed student (undergraduate or graduate) paper to then be given at the GSA annual meeting.

Awarded for undergraduate or graduate student research related to limnogeology, limnology, or paleolimnology.

For undergraduate or graduate students, of any nationality, working in any country, in the disciplines of geology, geophysics, geochemistry, astronomy, or biology.

Given for the best student presentations (one each for poster and oral) at the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC).

Awarded to an undergraduate or graduate student who is first author of the best planetary science paper published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal during the year prior to the award.

Support graduate research with a focus in soil geomorphology.

Support graduate research in Quaternary geology or geomorphology (Mackin for PhD students and Howard for M.S. students).

Support graduate research in Quaternary geology or geomorphology (Mackin for PhD students and Howard for M.S. students).

Supports graduate research in Quaternary geology or geomorphology for female applicants at either the M.S. or Ph.D level.

Support graduate research with a focus in fluvial geomorphology.

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.

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.