Sand Student Research Presentation Travel Award Grant

The Sand Student Research Presentation Travel Award supports women geoscience students in presenting their research at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. Named after Virginia Sand, an influential geoscience educator, this award helps cover travel, lodging, and registration fees for awardees. Eligible candidates must be enrolled in a geoscience program and present their research at a professional meeting. This initiative promotes women's contributions to geoscience research and education.

This competitive award provides women geoscience students with support to present their research at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA Connects).
This travel award is named for Virginia (Ginny) Sand (1928-2007), an award-winning geoscience teacher and world traveler. Ginny graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in geology, and she spent three decades teaching geoscience at Kent State University after obtaining her MA. Her many activities supporting AWG included serving as editor of Gaea (1988-1991). Her travel destinations ranged from the Galapagos Islands to Iceland and, at the age of 76, included a journey to Antarctica.
The award is to be used to help defray travel, lodging, registration fee, and other expenses associated with the presentation of the awardee’s research at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America including but not exclusive to sessions sponsored by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers.

Eligibility

The applicant must be currently enrolled in a BA, BS, Masters, or PhD program or the equivalent, and the major or field of specialization must be in geoscience or a closely related discipline.She must be presenting research results in oral or poster format at a national or international professional geoscience meeting other than the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America.She must be the presenting author of the abstract.