Foundation Grants for Undergraduate Students
Entrance of Lulworth Cove, England in the drizzle.
Photo by Matthew Reeve, student, Imperial College, London
Marta Weeks-Wulf meets L. Austin Weeks Undergraduate Recipient, Margarita Rodriguez
Columnar basalts on the island of Réunion.
Photo by Chandra Taposeea, student, Imperial College, London.
Congratulations to the 2012 L. Austin Weeks Undergraduate recipients! The AAPG Foundation will award 68 grants this year.
The AAPG Foundation funds the L. Austin Weeks Undergraduate Grant Program for 2011-12 through a generous endowment gift from the late L. Austin Weeks. In 2011, there were 44 grants awarded.
The purpose of the grant is to support educational expenses of undergraduate geoscience students and their departments. Nominations must be received at AAPG headquarters by December 15, 2012. Undergraduate earth science majors must be members of their AAPG Student Chapters. AAPG membership is not required.
The disbursement of the grant will consist of a maximum amount of $1,000 per qualified student chapter. Half of the grant ($500) will be given to a qualified undergraduate student. The remaining is for the geoscience department and should be used to support educational activities of the Student Chapter (i.e. for equipment, conferences, and fieldtrips).
The Student Chapter committee consisting of not less than three (3) individuals should determine the student recipient to be nominated. Recommended committee participants are:
- Faculty advisor to the Student Chapter
- Sponsoring society liaison
- Student Chapter President (if not a candidate)
- Department chair
- One or more graduate teaching assistant
Foundation Grants for Graduate Students
Mountain gorge in Nepal.
Photo by Sang-Eun Kim, student, Imperial College, London
Sand dunes on the margin of the Sahara desert.
Photo by Hannah Bungey, student, Imperial College, London.
In 2011, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation awarded $179,000 to 82 of 414 applicants through its Grants-in-Aid Program. The program includes special grants named, memorials and institutions that have made substantial contributions to the Foundation, petroleum and energy-mineral sciences, teaching, or research. AAPG membership is NOT required.
The purpose of the AAPG Foundation's Grants-in-Aid program is to foster research in the geosciences. Grants are made to provide financial assistance to graduate students (currently enrolled in Masters or Ph.D. programs) whose thesis research has application to the search for and development of petroleum and energy-mineral resources and/or to related environmental geology issues.
Grants are based on merit and, in part, on the financial need of the applicant. Although the focus of the program is the support of qualified candidates for Masters or equivalent degrees, qualified doctoral candidates are also encouraged to apply.
Factors weighed in selecting successful applicants include: the qualifications of an applicant as indicated by past performance; originality and imagination of the proposed project; support of the department in which the work is being done and perceived significance of the project to petroleum, energy minerals and related environmental geology.
Grants range from $1,000 to $3,000 and are to be applied to expenses directly related to the student's thesis work such as field work, laboratory analyses, etc. Funds are NOT to be used for capital equipment, conferences, salaries, tuition, or room and board during the school year. Further details will be included at the online submission site. Applications for 2012 are accepted until January 31st.
