The Dillon Award supports field-based studies dealing with the structural and tectonic development of Alaska, and studies that include some aspect of geochronology (either paleontologic or radiometric) to provide new age control for significant rock units in Alaska. 2022 Recipient Alec Lockett, University of Iowa; Project title: “Constraining the age and tectonic setting of unnamed […]
El-Baz Desert Research Award
The El-Baz Desert Research Award recognizes an outstanding body of work by a young scientist in warm desert research. 2022 Recipient Ronald Amundson, University of California, Berkeley
El-Baz Research Grant
The El-Baz grant is to encourage and support desert studies by students world-wide either in their senior year of their undergraduate studies, or at the Masters or Ph.D. level. 2021 Recipients Mohamed Elhebery, Western Michigan University; Project title: “Origin of mega-streamlined landforms in the Saharan-Arabian Desert” Julianne Scamardo, Colorado State University; Project title: “Watershed-scale connectivity […]
GeoStar – Research Grants
Without adequate funding, many of the recipients of the GSA graduate student research grants would be unable to continue their journey in discovering their passion. The GeoStar Fund supports these GSA grants in perpetuity by awarding its income earnings each year.
Howard R. Gould and Marilyn B. Gould Student Research Grant Fund
The purpose of the fund is to provide support for student research. 2022 Recipient Nathalie Sommer, Yale University; Project title: “Animal-driven soil biogeochemical cycles under climate variability”
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”
Grant and Jody Heiken Research Grant in Volcanology
The Heiken Fund supports graduate student research in volcanology. 2022 Recipient Watts Dietrich, University of Cincinnati; Project title: “Characterizing the impacts of diagenesis on a diatom biomarker”
William B. & Dorothy Heroy Research Grant
The William B. & Dorothy Heroy Research Grant supports graduate student research in the geosciences. 2022 Recipients Angie De La Cruz, University of Texas San Antonio; Project title: “Characteristics of Organic Matter in Hydrothermal Systems” Zoe Havlena, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Project title: “Microbial activity and biosignature preservation in aging acidic gypsum […]
Jack Hess Karst Research Award
The Hess Fund supports student research involving any aspect of cave and karst studies aimed at providing improved understanding of how caves and karst work, including how these resources can be better managed. 2022 Recipient Hanna Leapaldt, The Pennsylvania State University; Project title: “Microbial and Carbonate Biogeochemistry of Submarine Groundwater Discharge Zones”
Lincoln S and Sarah W. Hollister Graduate Student Research Awards
The Hollister Fund supports research grants to graduate students working on field-based theses and dissertations that use the tools of metamorphic petrology for understanding the formation of continental crust. 2022 Recipients Juan Felipe Bustos Moreno, Lehigh University; Project title: “Carbon mobility in subduction zone metamorphism: Evidence from HP/UHP Meta-Ophiolitic Breccias in the Western Alps” Peter […]