Application deadline: August 2025 (application will open April 1, 2025)
The Eugene and Carolyn Impact Cratering Award is for undergraduate or graduate students, of any nationality, working in any country, in the disciplines of geology, geophysics, geochemistry, astronomy, or biology. The award, which will include $3000, is to be applied for the study of impact craters, either on Earth or on the other solid bodies in the solar system. Areas of study may include but shall not necessarily be limited to impact cratering processes; the bodies (asteroidal or cometary) that make the impacts; or the geological, chemical, or biological results of impact cratering.
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Past Awardees
| Year |
Name |
Institution |
| 2024 |
Niall Whalen |
Florida State University |
| 2023 |
Nicolas S. Anderson |
California Institute of Technology |
| 2022 |
Emily Bamber |
University of Texas, Austin |
| 2021 |
Michaela Dobson |
University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| 2020 |
Hiu Ching Jupiter Cheng |
University of Georgia |
| 2019 |
Samantha Nicole Griffin |
University of Glasgow |
| 2018 |
Pim Kaskes |
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) |
| 2017 |
Maree McGregor |
University of New Brunswick (Canada) |
| 2016 |
Morgan Cox |
Curtin University (Australia) |
| 2015 |
James Keane |
University of Arizona |
| 2014 |
Patrick Boehnke |
University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2013 |
Michael Zanetti |
Washington University in St. Louis |
| 2012 |
Cameron M. Mercer |
Arizona State University |
| 2011 |
Olivia Thomson |
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez |
| 2010 |
Timmons Erickson |
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez |
| 2009 |
Matthew Wielicki |
University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2008 |
James Darling |
University of Bristol, United Kingdom |
| 2007 |
Jillian A. Hudgins |
University of New Brunswick |
| 2006 |
Vishnu Reddy |
University of North Dakota |
| 2005 |
Johanna Kieniewicz |
Washington University |
| 2004 |
No awardee |
|
| 2003 |
Charlotte Pearce |
Open University, United Kingdom |
| 2002 |
Ann Bäckström |
Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm, Sweden
(trans. Royal Institute of Technology) |
| 2001 |
Francis D. Winslow III |
State University of New York, Stony Brook |
| 2000 |
Gordon R. Osinski |
University of New Brunswick |
| 1999 |
Susanna L. Widicus |
Illinois Wesleyan University |