The Lincoln S and Sarah W. Hollister Graduate Student Research Awards Fund, new for 2022, is to support research grants to graduate students working on field-based theses and dissertations that use the tools of metamorphic petrology for understanding the formation of continental crust. Tools include, but are not limited to, phase equilibria based on data obtained with the electron microprobe or SEM/EDS, radiometric analysis, ductile deformation including data from EBSD, fluid inclusions, trace element analysis, and crustal seismology. As relevant, the awards will seek to enhance the recipient's ability to reach remote regions and to conduct research in the safest manner possible.
Applying for a grant.
To be considered for a Lincoln S and Sarah W. Hollister Graduate Student Research Grant, candidates should submit a research proposal to GSA’s Graduate Student Research Grants program. Each year, GSA generally accepts proposals from 1 December through 1 February. The proposals to be considered for a grant are forwarded to the Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology (MGPV) Division of GSA. Criteria for selection by MGPV - how well the proposal integrates and depend on a range of geology (field) evidence that may be combined with lab work or modeling to answer the posed question or select the samples. Will the study would make an important or interesting contribution. Will the techniques to be used have a good chance of answering the question(s) posed.
Awardees (2022-)
2025
Sofía Jiménez Barranco, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico for their project Sr and O Isotopes in Epidote: Tracing Fluid-Rock Interaction in Subduction Zones.. (description & biography)
Sarah Brandt, The University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA for her project Petrology of the Syke Rock garnet amphibolite, Franciscan Complex (Mendocino County, CA). (description & biography)
Nicole Ferrie, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA for her project A Predictive Model of Dewatering in Shallow Subduction Complexes. (description & biography)
Nandana Goswami, University of South Carolina, Columbia, Columbia, SC, USA for her project Determining paleo-crustal thickness of the Pikwitonei Granulite Domain. (description & biography)
Kathleen Stepien, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, USA for herproject Evidence for fluid flow in the Tianshan subduction complex from analysis of hydrogen in garnet. (description & biography)
2024
Ahmed Abdelrahman, Oklahoma State University, Stoillwater, OK, for their project Building the Geological History of Zalingei Fold Belt (ZFB): Implications for Precambrian (?) Northern Africa Tectonics. (description & biography)
Bry McKay, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, for their project Quantifying post-emplacement crystallization of quartz-hosted melt inclusions restoring the emplacement history of co-erupted units. (description & biography)
Sithari Nanayakkara Keppiti Duwage, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, for their project Re-evaluation of oriented and faceted inclusions in Garnet as indicators of Ultrahigh Pressure/ Temperature metamorphism. (description & biography)
2023
Michael Barnard, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, for his project Elucidating Environments of Tourmalinization for Paleoproterozoic Tourmalinites from the Tusas Mountains, New Mexico. (description)
2022
Juan felipe Bustos Moreno, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, for his project: Carbon mobility in subduction zone metamorphism: Evidence from HP/UHP Meta-Ophiolitic Breccias in the Western Alps (description)
Peter Lindquist, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, for his project: Tracking the history of metamorphic dehydration in the Catalina Schist (description)
Julisan Street, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, for her project: High-Temperature Granulite Metamorphism in Southwestern USA (description)