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”
The Winter Fund supports research grants to graduate students working on hydrogeology/hydrology research projects. 2025 Recipient Luke Alder | Utah State University | Project Title: Residence Times and Recharge Characteristics of Shallow Groundwater in Cache Valley, Utah ****************************** A Reflection on Dr. Thomas C. Winter All of us have mentors from different stages and facets of our…
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…
The William B. & Dorothy Heroy Research Grant supports graduate student research in the geosciences. 2025 Recipients Kirby Mills | Mississippi State University | Project Title: “Geophysical Surveys for Onshore Mapping of Submarine Groundwater Discharge Systems in Coastal Regions.”
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”
The John T. and Carol G. McGill Fund supports graduate student research in engineering geology and geomorphology. 2025 Recipients Michael Powers, University of Delaware
The Cox Fund supports research grants in geophysics. 2022 Recipient Osadebamwen Ohenhen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Project title: “Mining-induced Subsidence and Its Impact on Landslides in West Virginia”
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…
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…
The Mackin Award supports graduate research (Ph.D.) in Quaternary geology or geomorphology. 2025 Recipient Jason Drebber | Colorado School of Mines | Project Title: “Measurements of in-situ 3He, 21Ne, and 14C for production rate calibration of in-situ 14C in olivine.”