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The Next Generation
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Education Contact
Inés Cifuentes, PhD
Manager, Education and Career Services
2000 Florida Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009-1277
Phone: +1 202 777 7508
Fax: +1 202 328 0566
E-mail: icifuentes@agu.org
Research Grants and Awards
- AGU Excellence in Geophysical Education Award
- The AGU Excellence in Geophysical Education Award was established in 1996 to acknowledge a sustained commitment to excellence in geophysical education by a team, individual, or group at any grade level.
- Award Recipients
- Nomination Information — 15 October 2008 deadline
- Citation for Most Recent Medalist
- Horton Research Grants
- The Hydrology Section awards two Horton Research Grants each year to support Ph.D. candidates whose research is in hydrology and/or water resources.
- Recent recipients
- Scarf Award
- The Space Physics and Aeronomy Section presents the Scarf Award annually to a recent recipient of a Ph.D. (or equivalent degree) for outstanding dissertation research that contributes directly to solar-planetary science.
- Description
- Recent recipients
- Mineral and Rock Physics Outstanding Student Award
- The Mineral and Rock Physics Group presents the Mineral and Rock Physics Outstanding Student Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions by young scientists who are engaged in experimental and/or theoretical studies of minerals and Earth materials with the purpose of unraveling the physics and chemistry that govern their properties.
- Nomination information.
- Outstanding Student Paper Awards
- Most Sections and Focus Groups offer Outstanding Student Paper Awards for student-first-author presentations given at annual AGU meetings.
- OSPA Information Sheet