Charles A. and June R.P. Ross Research Award

The Charles A. and June R.P. Ross Award supports research grants in biostratigraphy, stratigraphy and stratigraphic correlation, paleogeography and paleobiogeography, and interpreting past depositional environments with the intent of understanding plate movements, past sea-level events, and paleoclimates.

For more information, visit the GSA Graduate Student Research Grants page.

2026 Recipients

Abigail Davis, University of Georgia

Andrew Oordt, The University of Oklahoma

Ava Whitehead, McGill University

Benjamin Rivera, Yale University

Fatima Andrea Jacobo Zamarripa, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur

Gaetano Palazzo, University of California, Santa Cruz

Katherine Slenker, Georgia Institute of Technology

Kevin Mulcahy, The University of Kansas

Peter Liberty, University of Toronto

Sanaa Mughal, University of Alberta

Shymah Beegam Kundladi, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Susannah Herz, Stanford University

Sydney Stanard, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Theodore Matel, University of Michigan

Trap Puckette, University of California, Santa Barbara

Vera Soltes, Kent State University