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2022 GSA Research Grant Recipients

The 2022 GSA Committee on Research Grants awarded Gastaldo, Kelly Gibson, Jennifer N. Gifford, Ryan D. Gold, Drew
US$784,655 to 348 graduate students (~59% of the 578 who Gorman-Lewis, Tom Hudgins, Kenneth Stephen Hughes, Ethan
applied), with an average grant of US$2,301.04. The committee Hyland, William Thomas Jackson, Jr., Linda C. Kah, Elana L.
also selected 10 alternate candidates in the event that any grantees Leithold, Roberto Molina Garza , Daniel Jones Morgan, David
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return all or part of their funds due to a change in their research Mrofka, Sandra Passchier, David M. Pearson, Jason S. Polk,
project or receipt of funds from another source. The GSA Francis Kevin Rengers, Julie Roberge, Tara Selly, David H.
Graduate Student Research Grant Program is funded by GSA, the Shimabukuro, Matthew Steele-Macinnis, Brian W. Stewart,
GSA Foundation, GSA Divisions, GSA Sections, and the National Daniel F. Stockli, Benjamin Michael Tutolo, Ashraf Uddin, and
Science Foundation (Award # 1949901). Students receiving NSF Jennifer Anne Wade.
funds are indicated with an asterisk. Alternate Committee members: Jason P. Briner, Cathy J. Busby,
Committee members: Shichun Huang (Chair), Joseph Asante, David R. Cordie, Josh C. Galster, Cindy Palinkas, Christopher J.
Tandis S. Bidgoli, Andy R. Bobyarchick, Robert Brinkmann, Potter, Jay Quade, Richard L. Smith, and David S. Vinson.
Huan Cui, Rhawn F. Denniston, Melissa Ann Foster, Robert A.

2022 OUTSTANDING MENTIONS
(proposals having exceptional merit in conception and presentation)

Protik Banerjee, University of Texas at San Antonio
Justine Grabiec, University of Southern California
Michael Jones, University of Arkansas
Mohammad Khorrami, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
William Larsen, Rice University
Sarah Newcomb, Idaho State University
Olasunkanmi Olorunsaye, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Allie Thompson, Western Washington University
Kriddie Whitmore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Haolin Zhou, Rice University

2022 NAMED AWARDS conjunction with research in deep-sea sedimentology, and a career
Funded by the GSA Foundation in academic research.
John A. Black Award Sam Bowring Geochronology Research Grant
Pedro Matos-Llavona, University of Massachusetts Amherst Kathleen Grosswiler, Pennsylvania State University
The John A. Black Award supports graduate student field-based Jordan Wang, University of Arizona
research on coastal processes. All field-based coastal geomorphol- The Sam Bowring Geochronology Fund supports graduate
ogy research should be located in the USA, Puerto Rico, or Canada. student field work in geochronology. The recipient is determined
In the event there are no worthy graduate student field-based by the GSA Geochronology Division.
research projects in coastal geomorphology, the award may be used
to support graduate student field-based research in volcanology. Ian S.E. Carmichael Research Award
All field-based volcanology research should be located in the USA, Ami Ward, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
New Zealand, or Iceland. The Ian S.E. Carmichael Research Award supports graduate
student research and related activities in the fields of igneous
Gretchen L. Blechschmidt Award petrology and volcanology. The recipient is determined by the
Catherine Nield, University of Cincinnati GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology
The Gretchen Louise Blechschmidt Award Fund was estab- (MGPV) Division.
lished for women in the geological sciences who have an interest
in achieving a Ph.D. in the fields of biostratigraphy and/or pale-
oceanography, sequence stratigraphy analysis, particularly in

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