Applications Open: Spring 2026 Travel Awards
The Division invites application for the Student Travel Award and Early Career Scientist Travel Award for the ACS Spring 2026 meeting in Atlanta, GA, from March 22 to 26, 2026.
Applications should be sent by October 20, 2025 to the Program Chairs of the meeting, Ian C. Bourg and Vitalii Starchenko, by email (bourg@princeton.edu and starchenkov@ornl.gov).
Student Travel Award
Number of awards: Up to 4 awards based on the quality of the applications.
Award: (1) The Geochemistry Division will pay for the awardees’ registration for the ACS National Meeting plus a $200 stipend. (2) Awardees will be given an extended time allocation (typically 25-30 minutes) for their oral presentations.
Eligibility: (1) The applicant must be an undergraduate or graduate student. (2) The applicant must have already submitted a regular abstract to MAPS for the meeting (see Application Procedure for details). (3) The applicant must be the presenting author. (4) Only one application per presenting author will be considered. (5) The awardee must be a member of ACS Geochemistry Division at the time of the conference.
Early Career Scientist Travel Award
Number of awards: Up to 2 awards based on the quality of the applications.
Award: (1) The Geochemistry Division will pay for the awardees’ registration for the ACS National Meeting plus a $200 stipend. (2) Awardees will be given an extended time allocation (typically 25-30 minutes) for the oral presentation.
Eligibility: (1) The applicant must have received their PhD degree within 7 years of the submission deadline (October 20, 2025). If there are extenuating circumstances (such as time spent raising children), please contact: bourg@princeton.edu. (2) The applicant must have already submitted a regular abstract to MAPS for the meeting (see Application Procedure for details). (3) The applicant must be the presenting author. (4) Only one application per presenting author will be considered. (5) The awardee must be a member of ACS Geochemistry Division at the time of the conference.
Application Procedures
Submit your regular abstract to the ACS Meeting Abstract Programming System (MAPS, http://maps.acs.org) before the abstract due date (September 29, 2025).
Submit your extended abstract to the GEOC Program Chairs, Ian C. Bourg and Vitaliy Starchenko, at bourg@princeton.edu and starchenkov@ornl.gov, before the application deadline (October 20, 2025).
Extended abstracts should not exceed one page (use at least 11-pt font, single-line spacing, and 1-inch margins) and may contain tables and figures (counted toward the page limit). Make sure to (1) include your name, affiliation, abstract title, and abstract number, and (2) indicate whether you are an undergraduate/graduate student (for the Student Travel Award) or your PhD degree date/year (for the Early Career Scientist Travel Award).
Evaluation
Abstracts will be judged based on the impact on the field of geochemistry, technical approach, quality and clarity of writing, relevance of the abstract to the symposia and national meeting themes, and balance among different symposia.
Award winners will be announced by the end of November 2025.
Questions about the awards should be directed to bourg@princeton.edu and starchenkov@ornl.gov