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Specialized Awards
Sponsored by the GSA Foundation
GSA TODAY | JULY 2016 MARLAND PRATT BILLINGS AND KATHERINE DIVERSITY AWARD
FOWLER-BILLINGS RESEARCH AWARD Simon George Scarpetta, University of Texas at Austin
Meghan Toft, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Undergraduate Award: Erik Divan and Audrey Wheatcroft, This award is presented to the top student(s), based on applica-
Bates College tion race/ethnicity status and overall quality of the research.
The Marland Pratt Billings and Katherine Fowler-Billings ROBERT K. FAHNESTOCK AWARD
Research Award encourages and promotes geological fieldwork Lauren Colliver, Purdue University
and related research in New England and adjacent regions.
The Robert K. Fahnestock Award honors the memory of Dr.
JOHN A. BLACK AWARD Fahnestock, a former member of the Research Grants Committee,
Lauren Brown, University of California, Los Angeles who died indirectly as a result of service on the committee. The
grant is awarded for the best proposal in sediment transport or
The John A. Black Award supports graduate student field-based related aspects of fluvial geomorphology, Dr. Fahnestock’s field.
research on coastal processes. All field-based coastal geomor-
phology research should be located in the USA, Puerto Rico, or ROBERT D. HATCHER RESEARCH AWARD
Canada. In the event there are no worthy graduate student field- Yiduo Liu, University of Houston
based research projects in coastal geomorphology, the award may
be used to support graduate student field-based research in volca- The Robert D. Hatcher Research Award supports field-based
nology. All field-based volcanology research should be located in research and geologic mapping through an annual award to an
the USA, New Zealand, or Iceland. outstanding graduate student in the earth sciences to conduct
research for that student’s master’s thesis or Ph.D. dissertation.
GRETCHEN L. BLECHSCHMIDT AWARD Preference may be given to students working in the Appalachian
Nina Whitney, Iowa State University orogeny broadly construed, but is not restricted to this region.
The Gretchen Louise Blechschmidt Award Fund was JOHN W. HESS RESEARCH GRANT
established for women in the geological sciences who have an Isabelle Weisman, Vanderbilt University
interest in achieving a Ph.D. in the fields of biostratigraphy
and/or paleoceanography, sequence stratigraphy analysis, The John W. Hess Research Grant in Karst Research Studies
particularly in conjunction with research in deep-sea supports student research involving any aspect of cave and
sedimentology, and a career in academic research. karst studies aimed at providing improved understanding of how
caves and karst work, including how these resources can be
JOHN T. DILLON ALASKA RESEARCH AWARD better managed.
Hanna Bartram, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Joseph Tulenko, University at Buffalo–SUNY ROSCOE G. JACKSON II AWARD
Hamilton Goodner, The University of Kansas
The John T. Dillon Alaska Research Award honors the memory
of Dr. Dillon who was particularly noted for his radiometric The Roscoe G. Jackson II Award funds one recipient per year in
age-dating work in the Brooks Range, Alaska. Two areas that the field of sedimentology.
serve as guidelines for selection of the award are field-based
studies dealing with the structural and tectonic development of LIPMAN RESEARCH AWARD
Alaska, and studies that include some aspect of geochronology Olivia Barbee, Michigan Technological University
(either paleontologic or radiometric) to provide new age control Zoe Braden, Queens University
for significant rock units in Alaska. Matthew Dunlop, University of Wyoming
Joana Voigt, The University of Arizona
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The Lipman Research Fund was established in 1993 and is
supported by gifts from the Howard and Jean Lipman
