Student Research Awards
The Division solicits applications for student research awards with an annual deadline of February 1. These awards, of up to $2000, will be competed through the GSA Student Grant program, and can be given independently or in addition to a GSA student grant. To apply, follow the procedures in the student grant program and after you have started the online application select the CSD Division grant in the drop-down list of Specialized Grants. Awards can be to study either new or existing continental cores or boreholes.
Awardees 2023
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Jayde Hirniak, Arizona State University — Developing a tephrochronological framework for environmental and archaeological deposits throughout South Africa during the Last Glacial Period
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Madeleine Landrum, University of Maine — Braiding Indigenous Fire Knowledges into Forest Management Practices to Increase Forest Health Under Global Change
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Jada Langston, University of Michigan Ann Arbor — Paleoclimate and Paleohydrology of Lake Erie
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W. Mathew McCormick, Florida Atlantic University — Characterizing the Sedimentological Signature of Hurricane Ian: Lover's Key State Park, Southwest Florida
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Adriana Pina Paez, California Institute of Technology — Stratigraphic Model and Tectonic Evolution of the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California
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Madison Rafter, University of Houston — Soil Fertility and Early Hominin Adaptability in the Eastern African Rift, Kenya
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Elena Robakiewicz, University of Connecticut — Lake Variability in Africa: Implications for Human Evolution and Modern Societies
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James Thayer, Western University — Reconstruction of Post-glacial Effective Moisture in Southern Ontario, Canada
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Victoria Todd, University of Texas at Austin — A Multi-proxy Investigation of Tropical Climate Variability ca. 200 ka |
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Rebecca Topness, University at Buffalo — Is the Bolling Warming Event Preserved in Stratigraphic Order in any Lake Sediments in Western New York and Pennsylvania? |
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Godspower Ubit, University of Pittsburgh — Reconstructing the Regional Hydroclimate Variability and Dynamics in Chilean Patagonia Over the Last 2,000 Years From Lake Sediments |