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2019 GSA Research Grant Recipients

The 2019 GSA Committee on Research Grants awarded D. Hawkes, Ellen K. Herman, Miquela Ingalls, Alexandra R.
US$812,000 to 392 graduate students (~52% of the 748 who Isern, Brian R. Jicha, Rebecca A. Lange, Andrew Leier,
applied), with an average grant of US$2071. The committee Michelle M. Lorah, Peter J. Modreski, Nathan A. Niemi, Bryan
also selected 10 alternate candidates in the event that any grant- A. Oakley, Cindy Palinkas, Stephen J. Piercey, Christopher J.
ees return all or part of their funds due to a change in their Potter, William Ian Ridley, Michael R. Rosen, Randall J.
research project or receipt of funds from another source. The Schaetzl, Jennifer A. Thomson, Ben van der Pluijm, Gary S.
GSA Graduate Student Research Grant Program is funded by Weissmann, Mark A. Wilson, and James D. Wright.
GSA, the GSA Foundation, GSA Divisions, and the National Alternate committee members: Zeynep Oner Baran,
Science Foundation (award no. 1712071). Whitney M. Behr, John Bershaw, Mark J. Caddick, Michelle L.
Committee members: William Ian Ridley, Lyndsay B. Ball, Coombs, Martin B. Goldhaber, Judith L. Hannah, Qinhong Hu,
James V. Browning, William C. Burton, Cathy J. Busby, Gwen Sharon L. Kanfoush, Gregory Nadon, Mohammad Hassan
M. Daley, Timothy M. Demko, Stephanie DeSisto, Besim Rezaie-Boroon, and Ellen Thomas.
Dragovic, James E. Faulds, Julie C. Fosdick, David L. Fox, Josh The following awards will be presented at the 2019 GSA
C. Galster, Andrew M. Gombos, Jr., Steven J. Hageman, Andrea Annual Meeting & Exposition in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

2019 Outstanding Mentions

(Proposals having exceptional merit in conception and presentation.)

Adele Conde Trista Mckenzie Christopher Svoboda
University of Vermont University of Hawaii at Mānoa Michigan State University

Malcolm Hodgskiss Catherine Ross Chia Pei Teoh
Stanford University The University of Texas at Austin Texas A&M University

Iva Lihter Claire Ruggles Sara Warix
University of British Columbia Okanagan Iowa State University Idaho State University

Corrie Lucchesi
Northern Illinois University

2019 ExxonMobil/GSA Student Geoscience Grants

ExxonMobil recognized 10 of the top 30 GSA student research grant proposals with a grant of US$5,000 each.

Kyle Henderson Claire Ruggles Liannie Velazquez Santana
McGill University Iowa State University Miami University
Siyan Liu Ben Suranovic Sara Warix
University of Kansas University of Alaska Anchorage Idaho State University

Scott Pantaleone Logan Tegler Joshua Zimmt
University of Alaska Anchorage Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California Berkeley

Catherine Ross
The University of Texas at Austin

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