The J. Hoover Mackin Research Award was established by the Division in 1974 to support graduate research on Quaternary geology or geomorphology. Mackin Awards were originally funded by individual donations from the Division membership supplemented by half the remaining funds in the Division account at the end of each year.

The Arthur D. Howard Fund was established in 1992 as the result of a bequest to GSA from the estate of Arthur D. Howard. The bequest stipulates that $25,000 shall be payable to the "Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division" of The Geological Society of America upon the condition that said Society establish with said gift the "Arthur D. Howard Fund." Interest from this fund is to be used for research grants and other purposes, as determined by the Management Board and Panel, to assist in research within the Division.

The Marie Morisawa Award for $1000 was established in 2006 to honor Dr. Marie Morisawa, one of the first women to maintain a high profile in Quaternary geology and geomorphology throughout her career. The purpose of the award is to support promising female M.S. and Ph.D. graduate students pursuing a career in geomorphology. Female scientists in geomorphology currently enrolled in a Masters or Ph.D. program are encouraged to apply. The Division will grant the first annual Marie Morisawa Award in 2009.

Dr. Morisawa entered the discipline in 1960, a period when relatively few women engaged in research and university-level science teaching. She went on to help establish the annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposia and the journal Geomorphology, both of which are thriving today. She was the first female chair of the QG&G Division, and was well known for mentoring younger scientists throughout her career.

The Management Board considers the payments to support student research from interest earned by these research funds to be awards rather than grants and refers to them as the Mackin Award, the Howard Award, and the Morisawa Award. Although the term "Grant" has been used in the past with the Mackin and Howard awards, the payments are awarded to only 2-4 students from among at least 20 applicants. The winners are selected based on the quality of the proposed research and submitted proposal and so are properly awards rather than grants. These merit-based division awards are entirely separate from grants from the GSA Committee on Research Grants to support student research.

Past Recipients of these Awards

The Mackin-Howard-Morisawa Awards support outstanding graduate student research in Quaternary geology and geomorphology. Each year one or two Ph.D. students receive a Mackin Award and one or two M.S. students receive a Howard Award.

HOW TO APPLY FOR A MACKIN-HOWARD AWARD

The application form for the Mackin-Howard awards as well as student
research grants is now online. 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
these two awards (Howard award for MS students; Mackin award for PhD
students) unless a potential applicant has previously received a GSA
Graduate Student Research Grant. If a student has not previously received
a GSA Graduate Student Research Grant, then separate applications for
these two awards need not be submitted. Any student who has already
received a GSA student research grant for the same degree work may still
apply for the Mackin or Howard awards. To apply, use the GSA research
grant application and appraisal forms available online, but rather than
submitting them online to GSA, submit them as pdf files to the Division
secretary and indicate which award the application is for. The secretary
will forward these applications to the QG&G review committee.

HOW TO APPLY FOR A MARIE MORISAWA AWARD

The application form for the Marie Morisawa Award as well as student research grants is now online. Any GSA Student Research Grant application from a female MS or Ph.D student that has "Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology" selected as the General Field of Research Project will be automatically eligible for consideration for the Marie Morisawa Award. If that student has not previously received a GSA Graduate Student Research Grant, then a separate application for the Morisawa Award need not be submitted. A female student who has already received a GSA student research grant for the same degree work is no longer eligible for a second GSA student research grant, but may still apply for the Marie Morisawa Award. To apply, use the GSA research grant application and appraisal forms available online, but rather than submitting them online to GSA, submit them as pdf files to the QG&G Division secretary and indicate that the application is for the Marie Morisawa Award (in addition to the Howard or Mackin Awards, as appropriate). The secretary will forward these applications to the QG&G review committee.

If you are applying for one of the above QG&G Division student awards, please visit http://rock.geosociety.org/qgg/ for more instructions. THE 2009 APPLICATION PROCEDURES ARE AVAILABLE AT: http://www.geosociety.org/grants/index.htm

*Please also note that the Division requires that awardees be members of the division.

Questions may also be directed to:

Diane C. Lorenz
Program Officer, Awards and Medals
Geological Society of America
P.O. Box 9140
Boulder, CO 80301
Phone: (303) 357-1028
Fax (303) 357-1070
Email: awards@geosociety.org

Note that the amount of funding that a student may already have for a research project is not a consideration in the selection of the Mackin-Howard-Morisawa Award winners.

All applications must be postmarked on or before 1 February 2009.

Incomplete applications will not be considered. Applicants will be notified by email of the winners of the Awards in May. Direct questions to the QG&G Division Secretary.

1974 Louis D. Carter, University of Southern California, Quaternary geology in Baja, California.

1975 P. Thompson Davis, University of Colorado, Cirque glacier fluctuations and lacustrine chronologies

1976 Award date changed

1977 Daniel R. Muhs University of Colorado, Marine terraces-soil development, San Clemente Island, California

1978 Lisa Osterman, University of Colorado, Quaternary geology of Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island.

1979 Donna Marron, University of California, Berkeley, Slope processes in Redwood National Park.

1980 Susan L. Gawarecki, Lehigh Univ, Origin of the Railroad Ridge diamicton.

1981 Mary L. Gillam, University of Colorado, Age and climate effects on soil development, Colorado and New Mexico.

1981 Julie Brigham, University of Colorado, Chronology of Pleistocene marine deposits in coastal Alaska.

1982 Thomas F. Bullard, University of New Mexico, Quaternary geomorphic evolution of a tributary to the Chaco River, northwestern New Mexico

1982 J. Steven Kite, University of Wisconsin, Late-glacial and Holocene alluvial chronology, St. Johns drainage basin, northern Maine and southern New Brunswick and Quebec

1983 Jonathan M. Harbor, University of Colorado, Chronology of Holocene events, geomorphic response, and eolian influx in alpine lakes in the Front Range, Colorado

1983 David S. Shafer, University of Tennessee, Quaternary climatic change, landscape evolution, and paleoecologic history, southern Appalachians, western North Carolina.

1983 Carolyn H. Eyles, University of Toronto, Scarborough Bluffs, Lake Ontario basin, lithofacies codes and the model of diamict deposition below floating ice

1984 Jim E. O'Connor, University of Arizona, Paleohydrology and hydraulics as interpreted from geologic evidence: Boulder Creek, Utah.

1984 Leonard H. Thorleifson, University of Colorado, The Quaternary stratigraphy of the Hudson Bay lowlands

1985 Karin A. Hoover, University of Washington, The relation of fluvial processes to facies--The Holocene stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Wells Reservoir area, eastern Washington

1985 Peter E. Lea, University of Colorado, Late-Quaternary stratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the Nushagak region, southwestern Alaska

1986 Mark A. Gonzales, University of Wisconsin, Fluvial geomorphology, geochronology, and paleoclimatology of Paddock Creek, Little Missouri Badlands, southwestern North Dakota

1986 Christopher M. Menges, University of New Mexico, Systematic and quantitative analyses of the landforms of a mountain front within a basin and range landscape in the northern Rio Grande rift near Taos,north-central New Mexico

1986 Dorothy I. Sack, University of Utah, Geomorphology of alluvial fans in the Bonneville Basin, Utah--Modeling alluvial fan activity

1987 Kevin M. O'Dea, Humboldt State University, Quaternary terrace formation and deformation on Yager Creek, Humboldt County, California

1987 Leal A.K. Mertes, University of Washington, Morphology and construction of the Solimoes-Amazon River flood plain in Brazil.

1987 Jim E. O'Connor, University of Arizona, Hydraulics and sediment transport of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville flooding on the Snake River

1988 Jay S. Noller, University of Colorado, History of El Nino in soil chronosequences of the Peruvian desert

1988 Donald T. Rodbell, University of Colorado, Late Quaternary glacial and climatic history of the northern Peruvian Andes based on glacial geology, glaciolacustrine sedimentology, and soils

1988 Eric A. Oches, University of Massachusetts, Late Quaternary paleotemperature estimates of the northern Mississippi and Illinois River valleys, U.S.A.

1989 Andrew Fox, Cornell University, Glacial history of the central Andes Mountains

1989 Garrett Jackson, University of Arizona, Tectonic geomorphology of the Toroweap Fault, western Grand Canyon, Arizona

1990 Grant A. Meyer, University of New Mexico, Holocene and modern geomorphic response to wildfires and climate change in northeastern Yellowstone National Park

1990 Kelin X. Whipple, University of Washington, The construction of alluvial-fan landforms by debris flows

1990 Robert B. Genau, University of Delaware, A shallow land-based seismic reflection approach to mapping Quaternary paleochannel(s) of the Susquehanna River system at Taylor's Island, Maryland

1990 Martin Thomas Kammerer, Arizona State Unviersity, The use of heavy metal concentrations and concentration-ratios to cross-correlate alluvial deposits

1991 Eric Von McDonald, University of New Mexico, The influence of climate change and dust flux on soils developed on Quaternary deposits in arid and semi-arid environments

1991 Robert S. Young, Duke University, The impact of sea-level rise on the coastal wetlands of Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds, North Carolina: A study of wetland dynamics.

1992 Matthew C. Goss, Rutgers University, High resolution seismics and ice-marginal sedimentation in Block Island Sound and adjacent Rhode Island

1992 Judith Kay Haschenburger, University of British Columbia, Scour and fill in gravel bed rivers.

1993 Joseph M. Licciardi, Oregon State University, Quaternary aminostratigraphy of the Palouse Loess of eastern Washington and Idaho

1993 Joseph A Mason, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Effects of glacial-interglacial climate change on the accumulation and long-term storage of sediment in the Root River basin, southeastern Minnesota.

1994 Amy B. Church, University of Vermont, Geomorphic response to Colonial land-use changes in Vermont

1994 Robert J. Viens, University of Washington, The dynamic response to tidewater and freshwater calving glaciers to millenial-scale climatic change.

1995 Michael Kaplan, University of Colorado, Late Quaternary ice-sheet dynamics, southeast Baffin Island

1995 Joseph M. Licciardi, Oregon State University, Chronology of high-frequency Late-Pleistocene climate change, western North America

1995 Adam Light, University of Colorado, Amino Acid Paleothermometry: A north-south transect of the Lake Bonnevile Basin, Utah, since the last glacial maximum

1997 Joel Lawrence Pederson, University of New Mexico, Variable hillslope processes and sediment delivery to tectonically quiescent basins: a Late Miocene to Quaternary record of buried, relict and modern hillslopes and their deposits"

1997 Jason Briner, Utah State University, Pleistocene glacial chronology of the southwestern Ahklun Mountains, Alaska.

1997 Daniel John Koning, University of New Mexico, Fault segmentation and tectonic geomorphology of the central section of the Alamogordo Fault, New Mexico.

1999 Sarah Konrad, Univ. of Wyoming, Flow dynamics of Galena Creek Rock Glacier, Absaroka Mountains.

1999 Stephen Thompson, Univ. of Washington, Luminescence dating to evaluate hydrologic change, fold growth, and fault slip, Tien Shan, Kirgiz Republic.

2001 Kyle Nichols, University of Vermont, Quantifying desert piedmont process rates using in situ-produced cosmogenic 10-Be and 26-Al.

2001 Matt Anders, Utah State University, Quaternary stratigraphy and landscape evolution of the eastern Grand Canyon.

2002 Greg Balco, University of Washington, Erosion beneath the Laurentide ice sheet and its role in Pleistocene ice age dynamics.

2002 Nicole Davis, Montana State University, Investigations of Glacial Lake Musselshell, central Montana.

2003 Yarrow Axford, University of Colorado, Toward Understanding Arctic climate change: Investigating a new isotopic method for reconstructing past temperatures.

2003 Timothy Sickbert, Illinois State University, The effect of differential stream flow velocities on hyporrheic interchange.

2004 Anders Carlson, Oregon State University, A Holocene Chronology of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, North America.

2005 Patrick Belmont, Lehigh University, Calibrating model for estimating basin-wide erosion rates from in situ terresstrial cosmogenic nuclides.

2005 Aron Taylor, California State University-Fullerton, Geomorphic evolution of San Juan Creek, California: Implications for base level change and tectonic deformation of the Santa Ana Mountain foothills.

2006 Amanda Henck, University of Washington, Is the Three Rivers Region in Steady State? (JHM)

2006 Beth Caissie, University of Massachusetts, Modern Day Diatom Sediment Assemblages in the Bering Sea and their Relationship with Mean Annual Sea-Ice Duration. (ADH)

2007 Nicholas Balascio, University of Massachusetts, Holocene tsunami deposits in coastal lakes of the Lofoten Islands, Norway. (JHM)

2007 Eli Lazarus, Duke University, A possible explanation for the locations and behavior of erosional hotspots on the northern Outer Banks, North Carolina. (JHM)

2007 Caleb Schiff, Northern Arizona University, Climate reconstruction from diatom oxygen isotopes, Prince William Sound, Alaska. (ADH)

2008 Rebecca Franklin, University of Arizona, Herbology of the alpine eastern Sierra Nevada. (JHM)

2008 Jonathan Harvey, Utah State University, reconciling Holocene alluvial records on the Colorado Plateau. (ADH)