Recognition Awards

The purpose of the Fund is to provide funds for financial awards to individuals to recognize achievements in the field of Quaternary science – specifically the Grimm Award for Excellence in Open Science and Data Stewardship and Gaudreau Award in Quaternary Geology – and possible additional awards as permitted by fund availability, as well as…

One recipient per year in the field of sedimentology.

The Robert K. Fahnestock Award honors the memory of Dr. Fahnestock, a former member of the Research Grants Committee, who died indirectly as a result of service on the committee. The grant is awarded for the best proposal in sediment transport or related aspects of fluvial geomorphology, Dr. Fahnestock’s field.

The Pete Mouginis-Mark Prize in Planetary Volcanology recognizes outstanding undergraduate and graduate student presentations in planetary volcanology.

The purpose of the Fund is to annually honor significant contributions to geology through the application of geophysics and geodynamics by a young scientist of outstanding ability.

The Michael R. Rosen Research Award in Limnogeology supports graduate student research in the field of limnogeology.

The Curtis-Hedberg Petroleum Career Achievement Award will be made for outstanding contributions in the field of petroleum geology. The award will go to a GSA Member that has had a career in petroleum geology and has made contributions to the discovery of petroleum reserves or the development of a new idea(s) and/or technology that increased…

The Warren Hamilton Fund supports student field-trip registration for the Warren Hamilton Field Trip during GSA Connects.

Undergraduate field experience is considered by professionals and employers to be a critical geoscience training experience, and yet… Support undergraduate field experience by becoming part of the Petroleum Geoscientists Fund for Undergraduate Field Experience and Research. What is the purpose of the fund? What makes this fund unique? Who will benefit from the fund? Where…