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 2025

  • Adeel Jehangir, University of Pittsburgh — Holocene Variations in the Strength of Winter Westerlies in Pakistan’s Himalayas
  • Cameron Greaves, Dalhousie University — Postglacial relative sea-level reconstruction of Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia
  • Chris Ploetz, University of Texas at Austin — Maya Subsistence Strategies and Environmental Change at the Classic Maya to Modern Site of Laguna
  • Kiri Maza, University of Utah — Direct tests of indirect claims linking oxygen and the rise of animals
  • Médéric Lorry, University of Alberta — Active layer detachment slides following the 2023 wildfire in the central Mackenzie valley, NWT
  • Zachary Clore, University of Connecticut — A Comparison of Two In-Land Blue Holes Focusing on Conservation Paleobiology of the Mollusk and Ostracode