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 Sloss Award for sedimentary geology annually recognizes a sedimentary geologist whose lifetime achievements exemplify contributions to the field of sedimentary geology through service to GSA. 2022 Recipient Judith Totman Parrish, University of Idaho
The W. Storrs Cole Fund supports research in invertebrate micropaleontology. No Awardee for 2022
The Arthur D. Howard Award is presented to an outstanding M.S. student, on the basis of a research proposal submitted to the GSA student research grant program by the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division. 2022 Recipient Hannah Holtzman, State University of New York at Buffalo; Project title: “Using leaf wax hydrogen isotopes to reconstruct Holocene…
The Claude C. Albritton, Jr., Award provides research scholarships and fellowships for graduate students in the earth sciences or archaeology. 2022 Recipient Tristan Bench, University of Washington; Project title: “Examining the Chronology of the Foothills Erratics Train, Alberta with In-situ Optical Surface Exposure Dating”
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