The Environmental and Engineering Geology Fund provides support to students through awards, grants, and other programs as determined by the Division.
Claude C. Albritton Memorial Research Grant
The Claude C. Albritton, Jr., Award provides research scholarships and fellowships for graduate students in the earth sciences or archaeology. 2022 Recipient Tristan Bench, University of Washington; Project title: “Examining the Chronology of the Foothills Erratics Train, Alberta with In-situ Optical Surface Exposure Dating”
Donald L. Biggs Memorial Education Award
The Biggs Award recognizes innovative and effective teaching of earth science among early career faculty. 2022 Recipient Christy Visaggi, Georgia State University
Peter Birkeland Soil Geomorphology Award
The Peter Birkeland Soil Geomorphology Award supports research grants to students in the field of soil geomorphology. 2022 Recipient Nora Vaughan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Project title: “Factors Controlling Holocene Piedmont Hillslope Processes”
Marland Pratt Billings and Katherine Fowler-Billings Research Award
The Marland Pratt Billings and Katharine Fowler-Billings Fund for Research in New England Geology funds fieldwork-based proposals focusing on New England and adjacent regions of Canada and New York. Successful proposals emphasize field research that leads to geologic mapping and related spatial analysis; purely sampling or laboratory-based proposals are generally not funded. No Awardee for […]
John M. Birdsall Distinguished Lecturer Fund
The Birdsall Fund, in combination with the Shirley J. Dreiss Memorial Fund, supports the Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture Series on hydrogeology. 2022 Recipient Dr. Kenneth Belitz, USGS; Project titles: “The Quality of Groundwater Used for Public Supply in the Continental United States,” and “Old Problems, New Approach: Applications of Ensemble-Tree Machine Learning to Hydrogeology”
John A. Black Research Award
The Black Award funds graduate student field-based research in coastal geomorphology, with a preference for field-based research on coastal processes located in the USA, Puerto Rico, or Canada. 2022 Recipient Pedro Matos-Llavona, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Project title: “Quantifying sediment delivery to reservoirs after Hurricane Maria”
Gretchen L. Blechschmidt Research Fund
The Blechschmidt Fund supports women in the geological sciences who have an interest in achieving a Ph.D. in the fields of biostratigraphy and/or paleoceanography, sequence stratigraphy analysis, particularly in conjunction with research in deep-sea sedimentology, and a career in academic research. 2022 Recipient Catherine Nield, University of Cincinnati; Project title: “Late glacial climate in central […]
Sam Bowring Geochronology Fund
The Sam Bowring Geochronology Fund supports the Sam Bowring Geochronology Fieldwork Award, which will support graduate student fieldwork for research involving geochronology. 2022 Recipients Kathleen Grosswiler, Pennsylvania State University; Project title: “How did the Wrangellia Large Igneous Province Impact the Environment During the Carnian?” Jordan Wang, University of Arizona; Project title: “Permo-Triassic Subduction Complex-Forearc Ophiolite […]
Randolph W. and Cecile T. Bromery Award
The Bromery Award recognizes any member of a minority, preferably African Americans, who has made significant contributions to research in the geological sciences, or those who have been instrumental in opening the geoscience field to minorities. 2022 Recipient Frederic Henley Wilson, USGS