The 2015-16 application for Grants-in-Aid is now open! There are 92 grants available, ranging from $500 to $3,000 each, totaling $260,000 in research funds to be awarded in 2016.

Pictured: Past award recipient Chelsea L. Pederson,received the Gustavus E. Archie Memorial Grant to study the deposition and preservation of microbial carbonates in the Florida Everglades.

The Grants-in-Aid program, a joint program between the AAPG Foundation and AAPG, promotes research in the geosciences by providing financial assistance to graduate students whose thesis research has application to petroleum and energy-mineral resources and/or to related environmental geology issues.