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GSA Fellowship 2019 Student

Research Grants
Fellowship is an honor that is bestowed on the best of our
profession once per year at the spring GSA Council meeting
and is recognized at GSA’s Annual Meeting. GSA members GSA is proud to offer research grants to its highly qualified
are elected to Fellowship in recognition of distinguished student members. Graduate students may receive a total of
contributions to the geosciences. A member can be nomi- two GSA graduate student research grants in their entire aca-
nated for Fellowship only by a Fellow of the Society who demic career, regardless of what program they are currently
initiates the process by completing the nomination form and enrolled in. The maximum award per grant is US$2,500.
identifying two other Fellows, or one Fellow and one mem- Graduate students may also qualify for specialized awards; if
ber, who agree to support the nomination. A GSA Fellow so, the total awarded could be more than US$2,500. Apply
may only support two nominees per election cycle and only online starting 1 Dec. 2018. Submissions must be completed
one as a primary nominator. by 1 Feb. 2019 at 5 p.m. MST.

How to Nominate The GSA Graduate Student Research Grant Program is
Primary nominator: supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant
1. Completes online nomination form at No. 1712071.
www.geosociety.org/FellowNoms; For more information, go to www.geosociety.org/grants,
2. Writes a letter of support; email researchgrants@geosociety.org, or call
3. Collects two additional letters of support (one +1-303-357-1025.
must be from a Fellow; both must be GSA members);
4. Obtains nomineesʼ current CV or résumé; and
5. Submits all documents in one packet to
awards@geosociety.org.

Minority-Serving Institution

Travel Awards

This year, GSA awarded 10 individuals attending six minority-
serving institutions travel grants to attend the GSA 2018 Annual
Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. The awards support GSA’s
commitment to diversity and were offered to help support the partici-
pation of faculty and student groups who may not otherwise have
been able to attend the meeting. Funding for the awards is based
upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under
grant no. 1713930.
Brooklyn College John A. Logan
Shannon Brophy Community College
Kayla Irizarry Laura O’Connell
Alison Rowe University of Houston
Florida International –Clear Lake
University Daniel Imrecke
Nicole Cordoba University of Puerto
Allison Huisa Rico–Mayagüez
Thomas Zerquera Pricilla Ortiz Carrero
Jackson State University
Spencer Williams

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