The Rocky Mountain Section Fund provides student support, meeting travel grants, research, field camps, undergraduate programs, awards, and similar activities that benefit the education and field training of earth science students.
South-Central Section Fund
The South-Central Section Fund provides student support, meeting travel grants, research, field camps, undergraduate programs, awards, and similar activities that benefit the education and field training of earth science students.
Southeastern Section Fund
The Southeastern Section Fund provides student support, meeting travel grants, research, field camps, undergraduate programs, awards, and similar activities that benefit the education and field training of earth science students. 2022 Recipients Sarah Arpin, University of Kentucky; Project title: “Hydrogeology of Silvertip Mountain, Bob Marshall Wilderness, Montana” Evelyn Boyd, Clemson University; Project title: “dentifying opportunities […]
Alexander Sisson Research Award
The Alexander Sisson Fund was established by family members in his memory to promote and support research for students pursuing studies in Alaska and the Caribbean. 2022 Recipients Lena Capece, University of California Santa Barbara; Project title: “Quantifying the extent of organic matter sulfurization in mangrove sediments of Little Ambergris Cay” Alexandra Villa, University of […]
Parke D. Snavely, Jr., Research Award
The Parke D. Snavely, Jr., Fund provides support for field-oriented graduate student research contributing to the understanding of geologic processes and history of the Pacific Northwest convergent margin, or evaluation of its hazard or resource potential. 2022 Recipient David Bruce, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Project title: “Diatom-Based Quantification of Coseismic Land-Level Change from […]
Harold T. Stearns Research Award
The Harold T. Stearns Award supports research on one or more aspects of circum-Pacific geology. 2022 Recipient Luis Giraldo Ceron, Penn State University; Project title: “Did insect herbivore assemblages track Eucalyptus from Eocene Patagonia to modern Australasia?”
Maurice “Ric” Terman Research Award
The Terman Fund promotes and supports The East Asia Geoscience and Environmental Research (EAGER) project that supports geoscience and environmental research in the member countries of the Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programs in East and Southeast Asia (CCOP).
Lauren A. Wright & Bennie W. Troxel Research Award
The Wright-Troxel Fund supports graduate field-based research in (1) the region broadly centered on Death Valley National Park or (2) in the western and southern Basin and Range Tectonic Province. Preferred, though not exclusive, disciplines include geologic mapping and stratigraphic and structural studies. Lauren Wright and Bennie Troxel began study and geologic mapping in the […]
Tim Wawrzyniec Research Fund
The Tim Wawrzyniec Fund honors the life and contributions of Tim Wawrzyniec and supports graduate and undergraduate student research field work in the Rockies and the Colorado Plateau, with preference for projects in the following areas; structure, tectonics, paleomagnetism, petrology, petroleum geology, and Quaternary geomorphology. 2022 Recipients Matthew Aleksey, University of Wisconsin – Madison; Project […]