Richard B. and Cynthia W. Waitt Research Award for Field-based Research

About this program

The Richard B. and Cynthia W. Waitt Research Award, administered by the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division (QG&G), provides grants to support graduate student field-based research in surficial geology and in physical volcanology of fragmental materials. Funding prioritizes substantial fieldwork activities such as mapping, stratigraphy, field sedimentology, geomorphology, and related studies rather than projects centered on laboratory sample analysis. Applicants must be graduate students proposing projects in the specified areas that demonstrate a primary, substantive fieldwork component and clear relevance to Quaternary geology or physical volcanology.