Student Research Awards

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 2024

  • Justin Delgado, CUNY Graduate Center — A Subsurface Assessment for CO2 Capture and Storage in South-Central Arizona
  • Bryce Hall, Auburn University — Structural Controls on a Future Carbon Sequestration Reservoir in Shelby County, Alabama
  • Zohreh Kazemi Motlagh, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology — Characterizing Arsenide Five-element Veins in the Black Hawk District, Grant County, New Mexico
  • Michelle Landry, University of Alberta — Permafrost Integrity and Remediation Potential of Drilling-Waste Sumps in the central Mackenzie Valley, NWT
  • Laura Lopera, University of Pittsburgh — Constraining the Source of Leaf Waxes from the Lake Junin Catchment to Refine Paleoprecipitation Interpretations
  • Matthew Towne, California State University, Chico — Extent of Alteration Within the Superior Mine at the Lights Creek Stock (IOCG), Plumas County, CA
  • Ángeles Verde Ramirez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico — Deformation and Sedimentation of Jurassic-Cretaceous Redbeds in the Salina Basin, Southern Mexico