Broadening Participation Travel Awards

Broadening Participation Travel Awards

The AGU Cryosphere Section has generously set aside money to assist members of the community with covering costs associated with attending the AGU Fall Meeting. We offer two types of awards (CryoStuD and Caregiver), described below. Both grants are administered by the AGU Cryosphere Broadening Participation Working Group. Please note that due to limited funding, applicants may apply to both awards but can only receive one. To apply for both awards, please fill out this form twice.

CryoStuD Award: The AGU Cryosphere Section Student/Post-doc/Recent Graduates Travel Grant for Diversity (CryoStuD) (pronounced: cryo-study) was established to support students and early career researchers from traditionally marginalized groups, and/or those who are actively working on broadening participation within the cryosphere, who are presenting their research at the AGU Fall Meeting. This grant aims to enhance and broaden participation within the cryosphere community by providing financial support for conference participation. Eligible applicants include students and recent graduates affiliated with the AGU Cryosphere Sciences section. Recipients will present their research, engage in networking events, and contribute to sessions focused on building and broadening the cryosphere science community. 

For questions about the CryoStuD Award, please contact Sarah Wells-Moran (sewellsmoran@gmail.com).

Caregiver Award: This is an application to offset or cover dependent-care costs during the AGU Fall meeting for members with caregiving roles whose participation would benefit from our support. This caregiver grant has been modeled after the Tectonophysics Section Caregiver Award. We thank Jacky Austermann for her help. 

For questions about the Caregiver Award, please contact Caitlin Locke (cd2477@columbia.edu).

 

What past recipients have to say:

The CryoStuD Award enabled me to attend my first AGU meeting and publicly present my ice-shelf modeling work for the first time. I received invaluable feedback from colleagues that I otherwise would not have gotten to meet, and got to know the people behind some of my favorite papers.

The AGU CryoStuD award allowed me to mentor four high school students from the GeoFORCE program that attended their first AGU Fall Meeting. It was an unforgettable experience to introduce them to the cryosphere community and network.

Thanks to the AGU CryoStuD award, I was able to travel across the country to San Francisco from New York to connect with peers and colleagues that I would never get the chance to connect with in-person. I was able to attend many wonderful talks and have my best conference experience yet because of this grant.

This award helped me with participating in AGU and presenting my work, which led to valuable connections and advancing my research.

As a non-traditional graduate student, the AGU Cryosphere CryoStuD Award helped me afford travel to AGU to communicate my science to the cryosphere community and connect with the geoscience DEI community. By attending AGU, I was able to assist in hosting an event for early-career researchers and attend events for the queer geoscience community. 

The CryoStuD travel award was instrumental in giving me the opportunity to present my work at a key career stage, meet other great scientists in the field after many years (due to Covid), and learn more about the wide variety of work being done in the cryosphere.

Applications for the AGU25 CryoStuD will open in Fall 2026

Eligibility: Students from any high school, tribal schools/college, community college, university, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and recent graduates (within 3 years of earning their degrees) who are presenting their research at the AGU Fall Meeting and are affiliated with the AGU Cryosphere Sciences section are eligible to apply. US citizenship is not required. 

Questions about the awards can be directed to M. Afzal Shadab (mashadab@princeton.edu) or Mahsa Moradi (mm1631@usnh.edu), current co-chairs of the AGU Broadening Participation Working Group.

Past Recipients

2025

CryoStuD

  • Yasmeen Orellana-Salazar

  • Elio Mancini

  • Kevin Shionalyn

  • Magkena Szemak

  • Cheristy Jones

  • Ana Carolina Moraes Luzardi

  • Monojit Saha

  • Angela Douglass

  • Cameron Stallcup

  • Nishant Tiwari

  • Valentina Ekimova

  • Madison Gunn

  • Hanie Sanaei

Caregiver

  • Shivaprakash Muruganandham

  • Rebecca Jackson

  • Kate Winter

  • Ginny Catania

  • Sarvesh Kumar Verma

  • Pawan Singh

2024

  • Allen, Jaela

  • Hermosilla, Carm

  • Jewell, MacKenzie

  • Khatiwada, Ashlesha

  • León, Rhys-Jasper

  • Lerman, Eliza

  • Liu, Jukes

  • Mirza, Bareera

  • Needell, Caroline

  • Omar, Samara

  • Shadab, Mohammad Afzal

  • Skelton, Emma

  • Tarzona, Angelo

  • Trivedi, Shreya

2023

  • Gifty Attiah

  • Mahsa Bahrami 

  • Izuchukwu Ezukanma 

  • Maya Fields 

  • Emily Glazer 

  • Minki Kim 

  • Haejo Kim 

  • Carmen Nab 

  • Mikayla Pascual 

  • Ipshita Pradhan 

  • Meghana Ranganathan 

  • Emma Robertson 

  • Kevin Shionalyn 

  • Madison Woodley 

2022

  • Smriti Srivastava

  • Sarah Wells-Moran