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GARRY JONES & BRIAN O’NEILL AWARD ​
The North American Micropaleontology Section (NAMS) of SEPM is pleased to solicit applications for the 2016 Garry Jones & Brian O’Neill Memorial Grant for NAMS Student Research. The Grant is an annual award available to one NAMS student member to support research with a substantial micropaleontologic component. For 2016, the amount of the award is $1500.
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Award Criteria: The student‘s research must involve one or more micropaleontology disciplines including foraminifers, nannofossils, diatoms, radiolarians, pollen, spores, dinoflagellates or conodonts. Projects may apply micropaleontology to traditional fields such as biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleoceanography or to rapidly expanding fields like biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology. The NAMS Council of Officers will rank the proposal based on scientific merit, faculty recommendation, and financial need. The grant will partially support a M.S. or Ph.D. research project that is not funded through other major grants. Applicants must be student members of NAMS.
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Award Application: Interested students should submit the required Application Form A and Form B, a page summary of his/her research, a Curriculum Vitae, and a budget. A supporting letter of reference from the applicant‘s faculty advisor must be provided separately to the address below. Please note that travel to meetings or conferences are not supported by this award.
GARRY JONES & BRIAN O’NEILL AWARD SOLICITATION​
The North American Micropaleontology Section (NAMS) of SEPM is pleased to solicit applications for the 2024 Garry Jones & Brian O’Neill Memorial Grant for NAMS Student Research. The Grant is an annual award available to NAMS student members to support research with a substantial micropaleontologic component. For 2024, the amount of the award is $1500.
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Award Criteria: The student‘s research must involve one or more micropaleontology disciplines including foraminifers, nannofossils, diatoms, radiolarians, pollen, spores, dinoflagellates or conodonts. Projects may apply micropaleontology to traditional fields such as biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleoceanography or to rapidly expanding fields like biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology. The NAMS Council of Officers will rank the proposal based on scientific merit, faculty recommendation, and financial need. The grant will partially support a M.S. or Ph.D. research project that is not funded through other major grants. Applicants must be student members of NAMS.
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Award Application: Interested students should submit the required Application Form A and Form B, a one page summary of his/her research, a Curriculum Vitae, and a budget. A supporting letter of reference from the applicant‘s faculty advisor must be provided separately to the email below. Please note that travel to meetings or conferences other than NAMS are not supported by this award.
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Application forms are attached herein. Application and letter of reference should be submitted by September 30, 2024. The awardee will be notified by October 31, 2024.
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Applications and letters of reference should be submitted electronically to:
Vann Smith
nams.sepm@gmail.com
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To submit your application for the 2024 Garry Jones & Brian O’Neill Memorial Grant for NAMS student research, please download and fill out Applications Forms A and B, and send the completed forms and all requested additional documents described in the application via email to nams.sepm@gmail.com.
UPCOMING CONFERENCE
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NAMS-SEPM Geologic Problem Solving with Microfossil V planned for Spring 2025 in Houston. More specific dates and locations to be decided.
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