We are happy to announce the second recipients of 2024 for Meteoritical Society Research Grants. The Meteoritical Society Research Grant is available to students and early career researchers who are members of the Meteoritical Society. The Meteoritical Society Research Grant aims to promote collaborative research in the fields of meteoritics and planetary sciences. The grants provide funding to aid novel and interdisciplinary research ideas not yet funded elsewhere. We appreciate the many strong applications received for this opportunity, and we thank the Endowment Committee for their work creating this initiative and for leading the selection process.
- Hely Branco (Curtin University, Western Australia), PhD student
- Thermal Evolution of Impact Structures on Mars and Venus
- Zachary Burton (Bates College, USA), Visiting Assistant Professor
- Comprehensive VNIR reflectance spectroscopy of enigmatic, impact-related hydrothermal sulfates from the Haughton impact structure (Devon Island, Arctic Archipelago, Canada)
- Camila Caviedes Cameron (Universidad de Atacama, Chile), PhD student
- Terrestrial biological colonization and weathering processes in Ordinary Chondrites from the Atacama Desert
- Neeraja Chinchalkar (University of Western Ontario, Canada), Research Technician
- Characterization of impact melt over a vertical transect at Discovery Hill, Mistastin Lake impact structure, Canada
- Helen Grant (IAPS-INAF, Italy), Postdoctoral Researcher
- Pristine Amorphous Silicates in Unequilibrated Ordinary Chondrites
- Swarna Prava Das (National Institute of Science Education and Research, India), PhD student
- Experimental Simulations of Space Weathering on Mercury: Ion irradiation and Infrared Spectroscopy under High Temperatures
- Sathyan Sachana (University of Kerala, India), PhD student
- Luna Impact Crater: Cosmic fingerprint on Harappan Civilization
- Ankit Singh (Physical Research Laboratory/Gujarat University, India), PhD student
- Temporal delineation of the early solar system processes: A subtle change to decipher the 41Ca conundrum
- Alice Stephant (University of Firenze, Italy), Postdoctoral Researcher
- Brachinite and brachinite-like hydrogen content and isotope composition
The next application deadline will be January 15, 2025. Details about scope, eligibility, funding and the application form can be found on the Endowment page of the website.