The Kerry Kelts Research Award funds graduate research advancing scientific understanding of lake geology, supporting studies on geological processes, history, and dynamics of lake systems.
Supports outstanding graduate student research projects in sedimentary geology through supplemental funding from the Geological Society of America’s Sedimentary Geology Division.
The Gretchen L. Blechschmidt Award funds female doctoral research in biostratigraphy or paleoceanology, with preference for projects in sequence stratigraphy and deep sea sedimentology.
The John T. and Carol G. McGill Research Award supports graduate research in engineering geology and geomorphology through additional funding within the GSA Graduate Student Research Grant Program.
Supports student research advancing the history and philosophy of geology, fostering original scholarship in these foundational areas of the geosciences.