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Students

Welcome to the student section of the Paleontological Society website! The
Society provides essential services to members through publications, grants,
and an ever-increasing involvement in the annual Geological Society of
America meetings. This involvement provides a place where students, both new
and experienced, can feel welcomed and get to know their colleagues in
professional and social settings.

A few of the initiatives that students should be aware of include:

• Paleontological Society Student Grants, awarded each year in the amount of $750
• The Paleontological Society GSA Student Poster Award. This competition, held each fall at GSA, is open to undergraduate and graduate student members of the Paleontological Society. The winner of the competition, which will be judged by a panel of professional paleontologists, will receive a $250 prize and prizes will be awarded for runners up as well. All current student members who submit posters to the conference will automatically be entered into the competition, as well as students who become members at GSA.
• Building our $250,000 Centennial Fund, honoring the Paleontological Society's 100th anniversary. This fund will endow future student grants, as well as allow us to increase the amount of student grants in the future.

Featured Student Awardee - Steve Brusatte, Columbia University

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About Your Student Representatives:

N. Ryan McKenzie: University of California at Riverside.

I am a PhD student at the University of California, Riverside.
I am broadly interested in the Proterozoic-Cambrian biostratigraphy, biogeography, and paleogeography of the north Indian margin and associated Asian terrranes of eastern Gondwanaland. I look forward to serving as a student representative and encourage you contact me with any questions you might have regarding the society. neil.mckenzie@email.ucr.edu

 

Jay Zambito, University of Cincinnati

I am a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati. My dissertation focuses on faunal and environmental changes at regional and global scales during the Middle-Late Devonian transition. I am thrilled to serve as a student representative to the society and am looking forward to bringing any questions, concerns, or ideas that you have to the attention of the council. zambitjj@mail.uc.edu