Brunton Award Grant

Brunton Award Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Association for Women Geoscientists
Amount: US $250 - US $2,000
Last Updated: November 01, 2025

Summary

The Brunton Award, sponsored by the Association for Women Geoscientists, encourages female geoscience students in their senior year or early graduate studies. It recognizes those who have excelled in fieldwork, such as internships or field camps, and promotes the importance of field-based studies in geosciences. Recipients receive an engraved Brunton transit and a one-year membership to AWG, supporting their future in the geosciences.

Overview

The AWG Brunton Award promotes the future of field mapping and data acquisition for the upcoming generation of women geoscientists. The award will go to a female geoscience student at the senior level or in her early graduate studies who has been a summer intern, excelled at field camp, or performed field data collection that leads to a senior or graduate thesis. The award is funded by Brunton. This award is an engraved Brunton transit and a one‐year membership is sponsored by AWG.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Eligible applicants:Have performed field work as an essential component of a senior thesis, summer internship, field camp, graduate thesis or other types of field projectsShould have future plans to continue in the geosciences, with fieldwork as an integral part of graduate degree or careerShould promote the fundamental value and need for field‐based studies within the geoscience profession through project results, quality of work, and other capabilitiesShould be a female geosciences student in her senior year of undergraduate studies or in the early stages of graduate studies