Society research grants
Applications are invited for the 2018 round of the Society research grants.
Please complete the form which can be downloaded from the Society Awards and Research Grants page at W: www.geolsoc.org.uk/grants where you will also find information about all the grants. The average award has been about £1000.
The Research Grants committee meets once annually. Applications must reach the Society no later than 1 February 2018 and must be supported by two Fellows of the Society who must each complete a supporting statement form. Only complete applications on the appropriate form will be considered.
Timothy Jefferson Fund
The Society will have one fund fewer to draw upon when the grants committee meets in February. Dr Timothy Hugh Jefferson (b. 1956) was a highly talented young geoscientist whose PhD focused on Antarctic palaeobotany. He was awarded the Palaeontological Association’s Presidents Prize in 1982. Timothy tragically died in an avalanche while assisting a colleague in scientific work in the Cordillera Blanca in Peru in September 1983.
His family and friends endowed the Timothy Jefferson Research Fund. From an original donation in 1985 of £10,000, subsequently enhanced by donations from others, over the years the fund has yielded just under £40,000 in support of research, but is now spent out. The Society is very pleased that it has other funds to draw upon and is grateful to Timothy’s father the Rev. Derek Jefferson and all the others whose generous helps to make this activity possible. Stephanie Jones
History
The following table shows what we know of the early recipients of the TJRF, up to 1997, and the purposes to which they put the money.
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Year
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Name
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Topic
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Amount
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1985
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Benjamin van Wyk de Vries, Bedford College
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Volcanic and Seismic risks on Isla de Ometepe, Lago de Nicaragua, Nicaragua.
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£500
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1986
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Jeff Warburton, University of Southampton
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Measurement of bedload transport in on Alpine proglacial meltwater stream using a Helley-Smith type bedload sampler.
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£185
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1987
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Andrew Barker, University of Southampton
Mark Burn, Oxford Polytechnic
Robert Allison, University of Durham
Stephen J Edwards, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Geochemistry of the Caledonian amphibolites of north-west Norrbotten, Sweden
Sedimentology of the Calciferous Sandstones (Dinantian) of East Fife
To study the Wahiba Sands, Oman
Magmatism and deformation in the Springers Hill are of the Lewis Hills Massif, Bay of Islands Ophiolite Complex, Western Newfoundland.
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£250
£250
£175
£175
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1988
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Robert E Holdsworth, University of Reading
Isabel Brown, Oxford Polytechnic
Katherine Kennedy, University of East Anglia
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Support fieldwork at the Start Perranporth Line
Support fieldwork in Zimbabwe on gold mineralisation in the Harare Greenstone Belt
Studying field exposures of Lower Miocene Reefs, Cyprus
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£200
£200
£200
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1989
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Steven J Saunders, West London Institute of Higher Education
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?
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£400
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1990
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Michael Keeling, West London Institute of Higher Education
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Ground deformation on Mount Etna
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£440
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1991
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Stephen Reddy, Open University
Adrian Hartley, Cardiff University
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Microstructural and 40AR/39AR Laserprobe Study of Fault Rocks Developed during Continental Collision [North Himalayan Fault]
Mesozoic Marginal Basin of Northern Chile
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£250
£500
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1992
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Sebastian Leigh, Chevron UK
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Controls on Tertiary Basin Evolution in Western Greece
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£759.11
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1993
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Richard Twitchett, University of Bristol
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Judith River Formation & Royal Tyrrell Museum
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£700
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1994
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Simon Testa
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To attend summer school at Kutna Hora, Czech Republic
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£500
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1995
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Nicole Y Böttcher & M G Rowland
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Research in Tierra del Fuega, Argentina
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£400 [total]
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1996?
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1997
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Andrew Thow & Jonathan Fides, University of Edinburgh
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British Schools Exploration Society’s trip to the Indian Himalaya
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£450
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