Graduate Student Research Grant Progress Report Form

GSA Graduate Student Research Grant Progress Report Form

As a GSA Graduate Student Research Grant recipient, you’ve contributed to the advancement of geoscience in meaningful ways. This progress report is your opportunity to reflect on your accomplishments and showcase the impact of your work.
Reports are due by 1 February the year after you received your grant.

(If you received a grant in 2025, your report is due 1 February 2026)
Name*

First NameLast Name
Email*
example@example.com
Are you still a member of GSA?*

YesNo
GSA Member #
GSA Section
Are you a member of a GSA Division?

YESNO
If yes, what Division?
Year Granted*
Grant Amount
Institution
Years in Graduate School (Masters)?
Years in Graduate School (Doctorate)?
Have you received a GSA Research Grant in the past? (You can apply & receive more than once)

YESNO
If yes, what year did you receive the grant?
Have you graduated?

YESNO
If yes, where are you currently working?
Research Proposal Title*
Geoscience Sub-discipline of Focus for your Research*
Specialized Awards
Key Accomplishments*
Impact on your Discipline*
Briefly describe how findings, results, techniques that were developed or extended, or other products resulting from your GSA-funded research made an impact or are likely to make an impact on the base of knowledge, theory, and research and/or pedagogical methods in your sub-discipline of geoscience.
Impact on Other Disciplines (Optional)
Briefly describe how the findings, results, or techniques that were developed or improved, or other projects from your GSA-funded research made an impact or are likely to make an impact on other disciplines.
Impact Beyond Science (Optional)
Briefly describe how the results of your GSA-funded research made an impact, or are likely to make an impact, beyond the bounds of science, engineering, and the academic world.
Other Impacts (Optional)
If applicable, briefly describe how the results of your GSA-funded research made an impact, or are likely to make an impact, on physical resources that form infrastructure (facilities, laboratories, instruments), institutional resources that form infrastructure, information resources that form infrastructure, technology transfer (commercial technology or public use), and/or other areas.
Training and Professional Development*
Briefly describe any opportunities for training and professional development that resulted from your GSA grant, for you or for other individuals.
Personal Statement*
Please share with GSA any personal thoughts or comments you may have regarding the receipt of a GSA research grant, and how it may have impacted your educational, career, and/or personal growth.
"Twitter" Summary (Optional)
Please write a very, very brief (no more than 280 characters, including spaces) summary of your research that GSA can post to its social media channels.
Expenditures to Date (Completed)*
Expenditures in Future (Anticipated)
Changes/Problems/Challenges
If your project had to undergo significant changes, or you ran into problems continuing with the project or using the funds, or simply had some basic challenges/obstacles along the course of your research, please describe them here. Please note that significant changes in how you intend to use the funds would need to be approved by GSA. For example, if you requested funds to run chemical analyses, but instead wish to use the funds for travel to a field site, that should be approved first by GSA. When in doubt, please contact GSA.
Presentation/Publication of Results:
Please list any conferences/journals in which the results of this research have been (or will be) presented/published. Please provide full details for each item in this list, such as the conference title, date, location, presentation title, presentation number, and abstract; or the journal title, volume, date, paper title, paper number, and abstract. If your results were presented in a venue other than a conference or journal, please provide that information as well. For publications, please indicate whether your paper is “in preparation”, “submitted”, “in review/revision”, “accepted”, or “published”.
Products
Please describe any products that resulted from your use of GSA grant funds. Products may include, but are not limited to: websites, audio recordings, video recordings, print materials, public presentations, PowerPoint presentations, poster presentations, news articles discussing your research, etc. Please link examples, if possible.
Check out this video made by a 2018 grant recipient, as an example
Upload Photos & Photo Captions

A helpful file filename format for GSA Looks like this: LastName_FirstName_Poster/Field/Lab (depending on what the photo is of). Please submit to GSA 1 to 5 photographs that show you engaged in your GSA-funded research. Photographs should be in color, high-resolution (3MB or higher), JPG or TIFF format, and include you, “in action!” Please avoid black and white photos, selfies, images of landscapes or rocks without people (you!) in them, and do not insert image files into PDFs or Word Docs. Provide captions for each photo in the field below.
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Photo Captions
Would you consider submitting a written piece to GSA's official blog to discuss the results of your research (even if your project is not fully complete)?

YesNo
Would you be interested in volunteering to assist other students in writing proposals for the Graduate Student Research Grant program?

YesNo
Permission to Share*
GSA would love to share your research publicly, through social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube) and other venues. Do you give GSA permission to publicly share information submitted in this report, including your name, and attached products and photos? (Please indicate if there is specific information that should not be shared, because it is sensitive, under review, proprietary, etc.) Also, if you create your own social media posts about your GSA-funded research, please mention us with @geosociety or #GSAResearch, depending on the site. That will help us see your post and amplify it.
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GSA Graduate Student Research Grant Progress Report Form

Reports are due by 1 February the year after you received your grant.