GSA Division Research Grants

These GSA divisions award grants for outstanding student research within the respective division's field of interest.

Geoarchaeology

• Claude C. Albritton, Jr. Award
  Provides research scholarships and fellowships for graduate students in the earth sciences or archaeology.
• Richard Hay Student Paper/Poster Award
  Travel grant awarded to a student presenting a paper or poster at the GSA's annual meeting. 

Energy Geology  

• Antoinette Lierman Medlin Scholarship
  Presented for the completion of laboratory/analytical research and for the completion of fieldwork for graduate students studying coal science.
• Best Paper Award
  One paper is recognized from GSA annual meeting sessions sponsored by the division.

Environmental and Engineering Geology

• Roy J. Shlemon Meeting Awards
  Given to graduate and undergraduate students to encourage participation in field trips and short courses held at annual and sectional meetings.
• Roy J. Shlemon Scholarship Awards
  Given to graduate students with the best research proposals within the broad field of environmental and engineering geology.

Geobiology and Geomicrobiology

• Student Presentation Awards

Geology and Society

• Best Student Paper Award
  One paper is recognized from GSA annual meeting sessions sponsored by the division.

History and Philosophy of Geology

• History and Philosophy of Geology Student Award
  Recognizes best proposed student (undergraduate or graduate) paper to then be given at the GSA annual meeting.

Limnogeology

• Kerry Kelts Award
  Awarded for undergraduate or graduate student research related to limnogeology, limnology, or paleolimnology.

Planetary Geology

• The Eugene M. Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award
  For undergraduate or graduate students, of any nationality, working in any country, in the disciplines of geology, geophysics, geochemistry, astronomy, or biology.
• Stephen E. Dwornik Student Research Paper Award
  Given for the best student presentations (one each for poster and oral) at the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC).
• Pellas-Ryder Best Student Paper Award
  Awarded to an undergraduate or graduate student who is first author of the best planetary science paper published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal during the year prior to the award.

Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology

• Peter Birkeland Soil Geomorphology Award
  Support graduate research with a focus in soil geomorphology.
• J. Hoover Mackin and Arthur D. Howard  Awards
  Support graduate research in Quaternary geology or geomorphology (Mackin for PhD students and Howard for M.S. students).
• Marie Morisawa Award
  Supports graduate research in Quaternary geology or geomorphology for female applicants at either the M.S. or Ph.D level.
• Stanley A. Schumm Research Grant Award
  Support graduate research with a focus in fluvial geomorphology.

Sedimentary Geology

• Stephen E. Laubach Structural Diagenesis Research Award
  Graduate students, postgraduate and faculty level researchers are eligible.  This Award promotes research combining structural geology and diagenesis, and curriculum development in structural diagenesis. To help promote the cross disciplinary emphasis of this annual award, the Sedimentary Geology and Structural Geology & Tectonics Division have been designated to jointly select the recipient.

Structural Geology & Tectonics

• Stephen E. Laubach Structural Diagenesis Research Award
  Graduate students, postgraduate and faculty level researchers are eligible.  This Award promotes research combining structural geology and diagenesis, and curriculum development in structural diagenesis. To help promote the cross disciplinary emphasis of this annual award, the Sedimentary Geology and Structural Geology & Tectonics Division have been designated to jointly select the recipient.

The Committee on Research Grants will select candidates from the general research grant program for awards by the Continental Scientific Drilling, Geophysics and Geodynamics (Allan V. Cox Award), History and Philosophy of Geology (Aldrich Award), Karst (Hess), Hydrogeology, Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology (Carmichael, Lipman, MGPV), Sedimentary Geology, and Structural Geology and Tectonics Divisions.

For more Division information, please visit the GSA Divisions Web page.