Grants in Aid Programs
Must be enrolled in a Master's or PhD program.
The program is for geoscience graduate students whose research has application to the search for and development of petroleum and energy-mineral resources, and/or related environmental geology issues.
Graduate students at U-M are qualified to apply for the Richard W. Beardsley Named Grant and the Suzanne Takken Memorial Grant. The Beardsley Grant is restricted to a student studying petroleum geology in the AAPG Eastern Section or studying the petroleum geology of the Eastern Section region and the Suzanne Takken Memorial Grant is awarded first preference to a female geoscience graduate studeyn at the University of Michigan.
1) Applicant name and contact information
2) Academic and employment history
3) Project summary
4) Description of research project
5) Project budget and funding request
6) Previous AAPG Foundation grant (if any).
7) The name and email address for each of two references qualified to endorse you and your project.
(Preferably your thesis/project supervisor and the Department Chairman or Director)
8) Official college academic transcripts from the last two years (or equivalent). This transcript must be mailed to AAPG Foundation, c/o GIA Coordinator, P.O. Box 979, Tulsa, OK 74101-0979 and cannot be submitted online. Xerox copies of transcripts are unacceptable.
You may assemble elements 1 through 7 online, resuming or revising your submission at any point between now and the submission deadline. Once you begin a submission, please note your ID# and password in the top left frame. You will need to utilize this information to login to your submission. However, please note, you WILL NOT be able to edit your application after you "Conclude the submission".
Grants are to be applied to expenses directly related to the student's thesis work, such as summer field work, laboratory analyses, etc. Funds are not to be used to purchase capital equipment, attend conferences, or to pay salaries, tuition, or room and board during the school year. Funds must be spent within 18 months of receipt of the award. The educational institution attended by the applicant must not require or allow a grant to be turned over to the institution or decrease any funding or other benefit received by the applicant if a grant is awarded.
Candidates for Master's or equivalent degrees may receive a maximum of one grant, and Ph.D. candidates may receive a maximum of two grants. No more than two grants will be awarded to any one applicant during their graduate education.