NSF Faculty Travel Grant

Implementing a new NSF-funded travel grant program

Enabling Faculty at Under-Resourced Primarily Undergraduate Institutions to Attend the 2024 Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting

(Award #2422805)

About

This award is a pilot Travel Grant program for U.S. faculty from typically under-resourced institutions, such as Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs), Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), and community colleges (2YCs). Faculty at these institutions often have higher teaching loads and do not have access to significant travel funds, making it more difficult for them to attend scientific conferences. Attendance at conferences allows faculty to establish connections to other researchers and bring back the latest innovations in research and teaching to their classrooms. 

The AGU's Annual Meeting is a large gathering of geoscience professionals, with >22,000 attendees from 100+ countries. This award will initiate a Travel Grant program for up to 50 early-to-mid career faculty from under-resourced U.S. institutions to attend the 2024 Fall AGU meeting. This meeting will take place in Washington DC December 9-13 2024. In addition to a travel stipend, the travel grant awardees will have the opportunity to participate in a professional development workshop, networking and social events, meet with NSF program officers, and review student presentations. There will be pre- and post-event evaluation surveys and one or more journal articles will result from the award. 

Who is eligible to apply?

  • Are you an early- to mid-career geoscience faculty member?
  • Do you work at a two-year college (2YC) or four-year college/university (4YC)?
  • Are you interested in attending the 2024 American Geophysical Union (AGU) annual conference in Washington DC?
  • Do you need financial assistance to cover travel expenses in order to attend this conference? 

If your answers are ‘yes’ please consider applying for this travel grant through our NSF-funded pilot project!

For more information go to: https://www.agu.org/honors/ftg 

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Applications are now closed. See below for 2024 awardees!

  

Goals

The goal of this pilot project is to create the foundation for a longer-term sustainable program to broaden participation in the AGU annual conference, and better support a more institutionally-diverse, networked, professional geoscience community. Our primary objective is to offer $1700 travel stipends to support 50 early-to-mid-career geoscience faculty at under-resourced U.S. 2- and 4-year colleges and universities (including ERIs, MSIs and 2YCs) to attend the 2024 AGU annual conference.

In conjunction with the travel support, we will use this disciplinary society annual conference as a platform for leadership, professional development, and capacity-building activities for the cohort participants. This approach is intended to build both individual capacity and community capacity.

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Questions?

Please contact Kristen St John (stjohnke@jmu.edu),

Kusali Gamage (kgamage@austincc.edu), 

or Billy Williams (bwilliams@agu.org).

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2024 Awardees

Name Institution Fields of Study/Interest
 Marwa El-Sayed Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Atmospheric Sciences, Community Science, Global Environmental Change
 Samantha Mosier East Carolina University Education, Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion, Science and Society
 Zhi Ye South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Mineral and Rock Physics, Seismology, Tectonophysics
 Thivanka Ariyarathna Rowan University Biogeosciences, GeoHealth, Ocean Sciences
 Scott Braddock College of the Atlantic Cryosphere Sciences, Education, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
 Ileana Callejas Biola University Biogeosciences, GeoHealth, Ocean Sciences
 Md Kibria Morehead State University Hydrology, Mineral and Rock Physics
 Bishnupriya Sahoo University of Maryland - Eastern Shore Atmospheric Sciences, Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Ocean Sciences
 Keota Silaphone Salisbury University Education, Hydrology, Ocean Sciences
 Wanting (Lisa) Wang Old Dominion University Community Science , Natural Hazards, Science and Society
 Hima Hassenruck Gudipati Southern Oregon University Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
 Joonghyeok Heo University of Texas - Permian Basin Global Environmental Change, Hydrology, Natural Hazards
 Alia Lesnek City University of New York - Queens College Cryosphere Sciences, Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
 Joseph Lucey California State University - Los Angeles Hydrology, Natural Hazards, Ocean Sciences
 Sean Thatcher City University of New York - College of Staten Island Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion, Global Environmental Change
 Subbarao Yelisetti Texas A&M University - Kingsville Education, Natural Hazards, Seismology
 Lin Zhang Texas A & M University - Corpus Christi Biogeosciences, Global Environmental Change, Ocean Sciences
 Alyssa Abbey California State University - Long Beach Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Education, Tectonophysics
 Nasrin Alamdari Florida A&M University Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Hydrology, Natural Hazards
 Ismaila Diallo San Jose State University Atmospheric Sciences, Global Environmental Change, Natural Hazards
 Peng Fu Harrisburg University of Science and Technology Biogeosciences, Global Environmental Change, Informatics
 Susana Henriquez California State University - San Bernardino Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Tectonophysics, Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology
 Swatantra Kethireddy California State University - San Bernardino GeoHealth, Global Environmental Change, Hydrology
 Dara Laczniak City University of New York - Queens College  Education, Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion, Planetary Sciences
 Qiang Li University of Houston - Downtown Biogeosciences, Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Hydrology
 Adriana Northcutt University of Alaska - Southeast Community Science , Education, Global Environmental Change
 Abhishek RoyChowdhury Navajo Technical University Biogeosciences, GeoHealth, Hydrology
 Rocky Talchabhadel Jackson State University Atmospheric Sciences, Hydrology
 Guang Zeng Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi Education, Science and Society
 Liang Zeng The University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley Education, Ocean Sciences, Science and Society
 Mary Cooke Austin Community College Community Science , Education, Natural Hazards
 Jacqui Degan Cape Fear Community College Atmospheric Sciences, Education, Ocean Sciences
 Preethi Ganapathy County College of Morris Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean Sciences, Space Physics and Aeronomy
 Scott Gianelli Suffolk County Community College Atmospheric Sciences, Global Environmental Change, Science and Society
 Karen Menge Delgado Community College Education, Global Environmental Change, Mineral and Rock Physics
 Crystal Saunders Edgecombe Community College Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion, Global Environmental Change, Natural Hazards
 Patrick Shabram Front Range Community College Atmospheric Sciences, Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Education
 Nahid Swails University of South Carolina - Lancaster Science and Society
 Sheldon Turner Triton College Education, Global Environmental Change, Science and Society
 Kaatje van der Hoeven Kraft Whatcom Community College Education, Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion, Natural Hazards
 Jannatul Ferdush Vincennes University Biogeosciences
 Angela Daneshmand Santiago Canyon College Community Science, Education, Ocean Sciences
 Bishnupriya Sahoo University of Maryland - Eastern Shore Atmospheric Sciences, Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Ocean Sciences
 Eric Baer Highline College Education, Natural Hazards, Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology
 Leslie Davis Austin Community College Community Science, Ocean Sciences, Science and Society
 Paul Haberstroh Mohave Community College Biogeosciences, Hydrology, Ocean Sciences
 Waverly Ray San Diego Mesa College Education, Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion, Ocean Sciences
 Victor Ricchezza Georgia State University - Perimeter College Education
 Rebecca Sperry Salt Lake Community College Biogeosciences, Ocean Sciences, Science and Society
 Tess Weathers Chabot College/California State Polytechnic University - Humboldt Biogeosciences, Education, Hydrology