At the 2006 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, the Management Board of the Archaeological Geology Division elected to rename the student travel award for a distinguished scientist in Archaeological Geology.  

 

After consulting with his family, the student paper/poster award was officially named the Richard Hay Student Paper/Poster Award.  Richard Hay was a long-standing member of the Archaeological Geology Division and had a long and distinguished career in sedimentary geology, mineralogy, and archaeological geology.  He is particularly well known for his work on the Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli hominid-bearing sites and was awarded the Division's Rip Rapp award in 2000.  The Division is proud to have our student travel award bear his name.

 

The Richard Hay Student Paper/Poster Award is a travel grant awarded to a student presenting a paper or poster at the GSA's annual meeting. The grant is competitive and will be awarded based on the evaluation of the scientific merit of the research topic and the clarity of an expanded abstract for the paper prepared by a student for presentation in [one of] the Division's technical session[s] at the meeting.

 

The deadline for receipt of the application is September 20, 2007.

 

 

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