News & Announcements

The Professorial Award, given by the AAPG Foundation, is granted annually to a college or university professor who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the field of geoscience education.

The 2014-15 application for Grants-in-Aid is now open! There are 92 grants available, ranging from $500 to $3,000 each, totaling $239,000 in research funds to be awarded.

Applications and nominations are being accepted for the 2015 Teacher of the Year (TOTY) Award. The TOTY award, given by the American Association for Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Foundation, will once again be granted to a K-12 teacher within the United States who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the field of geoscience education.

Ken Coulson, a third year Ph.D. student at Loma Linda University, received the 2014 John H. and Colleen Silcox Named Grant as part of the Grants-In-Aid research grant program. This generous grant recognizes his research in southwestern Utah, where Ken is studying Upper Cambrian elongate microbialites.

The L. Austin Weeks (LAW) Undergraduate Grant program provides grants to geoscience scholars who are furthering their undergraduate geoscience education both inside and outside of the traditional classroom setting.

David Wheatley, a second year M.S. student at the University of Utah, received the 2013 Allan and Eleanor Martini Named Grant. This grant helps to support David’s research in Southern Utah on soft sediment deformation and injectites in the Jurassic Carmel Formation.