Regarding Transcripts:
You will receive an email when your transcript has been uploaded. If you have not received an email by 5 p.m. central time on Tuesday, February 8, you may want to track your transcript to locate its whereabouts. Transcripts will be accepted until February 14.

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Application Instructions

The deadline is February 3rd at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time USA to finish your application and have your faculty endorsements completed.

The database is closed to new applicants.

Online applications are now being accepted year-round; however, taking time to review these instructions will help you with the online application process. Should you wish to skip these instructions and proceed to the Online Submission process, you may do so. Applications for 2012 are accepted until January 31. AAPG membership is NOT required to apply.

Please review this list of do's and dont's about your application. Also, please review these tips for your application written by committee member, Andy Klein.

  1. Applicant name and contact information
  2. Academic and employment history
  3. Project summary
  4. Description of research project (limited to 300 words)
  5. Project budget and funding request. You will download and save an Excel spreadsheet and then upload into your application. It is extremely important that you provide the budget for your entire project. For example, if your total research budget is $20,000 and you request $2,000 from the AAPG Foundation, please indicate to which other agencies you have applied for the $18,000 in additional funding.
  6. Disclose if you have been a previous recipient of an AAPG Foundation grant (if any).
  7. The name and email address for two separate references qualified to endorse you and your project. (Preferably your thesis/project supervisor and the Department Chairman or Director -- not the same person). The Department Chairman will only be required to verify your current student status.
  8. Submit official academic transcripts from the last two years (or equivalent). Please make sure it shows current enrollment for 2012. This transcript must be mailed to:

    9. AAPG Foundation
    Grants-in-Aid Program
    1444 S. Boulder Ave.
    Tulsa, OK 74119 USA

    The transcript cannot be submitted online. Copies, fax copies and computer generated transcripts are unacceptable. Transcripts are accepted up to 2 weeks after the January 31 deadline but should be sent by expedited mail service. If you live in a country where there is a postal strike, please email an original PDF of your transcript that includes current enrollment.

  9. Once this information is submitted your two references will receive an email message. They must respond to that message by submitting their endorsements online.
  10. Deadline: Applications must be completed online by January 31. We accept applications year-round.
  11. Awards will be announced in the Spring. Bookmark the AAPG Foundation Grants-in-Aid home page and begin checking it at that time. The award recipients are divided into half Masters students and half PhD students.
  12. Scoring is based on the following five areas: (a) student's academic and employment history (b) scientific merit of proposal (c) suitability to program objectives (d) financial merit of proposal (e) endorsement by faculty or department advisor.
  13. International Applicants: Grants to successful applicants are made in U.S. dollars, usually by a check drawn on a U.S. bank. However, in some countries delivery of grants can only be assured by bank wire transfer. Students selected to receive grants will be contacted by the AAPG Foundation concerning delivery of their grants. They must confirm that they can safely accept mail delivery of the grant payable by U.S. check, or they must provide all the banking information necessary for wire transfer of the grant, including the appropriate bank account in the name of the student recipient. A grant will not be sent to a third party or wire transferred to a third party's account.