The Florence Bascom Award acknowledges contributions in published high-quality geologic mapping that led the recipient to publish significant new scientific or economic-resource discoveries, and to contribute greater understanding of fundamental geologic processes and concepts. The objective is to encourage training and support toward production of excellent, accurate, detailed, and purposeful geologic maps and cross sections. […]
Robert D. Hatcher Award
The Hatcher Fund supports graduate-level, field-based research and geologic mapping, with preference for work in the Appalachian orogeny. 2022 Recipient Lancen Tully, University of South Carolina; Project title: “Advancing the zircon proxy: Assessing sediment fractionation mechanisms through detrital-zircon geochronology in the Santee River watershed, South Carolina”