QG&G Student Awards

We are proud to host a growing list of student grant awards! Student award winners are chosen on the basis of GSA student research grant applications. Any research grant application that has “Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology” selected as the General Field of Research Project will be automatically eligible for consideration for our three awards. Please note that a single application can be considered for both the Morisawa and either the Howard or Mackin Award at the same time.

In addition to the QG&G division awards, which are selected by a panel of QG&G reviewers, GSA also administers two awards in the fields of Quaternary geology and geomorphology: the Fahnestock and Black awards. More information on those here.

The application for student research grants is available at: www.geosociety.org/grants.
Application deadline for all student awards is February 18th.

All awardees are recognized during the QG&G award ceremony at the GSA Annual Meeting. Travel assistance for awardees is available.

The Victor R Baker Award

Awarded to M.S. or Ph.D. students with a research focus in fluvial geomorphology, paleoflood hydrology, or planetary geomorphology.

About the Award and Past Award Winners.

The Peter Birkeland Soil Geomorphology Award

Awarded to M.S. or Ph.D. students with a research focus in soil geomorphology.

About the Award and Past Award Winners.

The Donald R Coates Award

Awarded to a MS or PhD student in Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology

About the Award and Past Award Winners.

The Denton, Andrews, Porter Glacial Geology Award

Awarded to undergraduate and graduate students in glacial geomorphology

About the Award and Past Award Winners

The Arthur D. Howard Award

Awarded to M.S. students.

About the Award and Past Award Winners.

The J. Hoover Mackin Award

Awarded to Ph.D. students.

About the Award and Past Award Winners.

The Marie Morisawa Award

Awarded to women-identifying M.S. or Ph.D. students in geomorphology.

About the Award and Past Award Winners .

Troy Péwé Award

Awarded to MS or Phd students with a research focus on periglacial or environmental geomorphology.

About the Award and Past Award Winners.

The Stanley A. Schumm Research Grant Award

Awarded to M.S. or Ph.D. students with a research focus in fluvial geomorphology.

About the Award and Past Award Winners.

The Shroder Mass Movement Award

Awarded to MS or Phd students with a research focus on mass movement.

About the Award and Past Award Winners.

The John D. Vitek Periglacial and Alpine Geomorphology Award

Awarded to MS or Phd students with a research focus in the fields of periglacial and alpine geomorphology.

About the Award and Past Award Winners.

The Waitt Award

Awarded to MS or Phd students with a research focus in physical volcanology or surface geology with a significant fieldwork component.

About the Award and Past Award Winners.