According to 2020 Recipients of Grants-in-Aid (GIA) announced by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), ZENG Zhiwei, SUN Zhongheng, and LI Sen, doctoral students supervised by Prof. ZHU Hongtao at the School of Earth Resources receive financial assistance, and ZENG has received GIA for the first time in 2019. It is a year when CUG has most recipients of GIA in history, and it is also the second consecutive year when a CUG graduate student has been awarded GIA.
For the quantitative study of development differences of organic facies and sedimentary mechanisms in large shallow water deltas, ZENG Zhiwei receives $3,000 of Nancy Setzer Murray Memorial Grant. For the study on quantitative reconstruction of multi-source interactions and their effects on sediment pathways, SUN Zhongheng receives $3,000 of SEAPEX (Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society) Grant. For an improved phased method for the extraction of stable and cluster isotopes from mixed carbonate rocks in different acidification temperatures, LI Sen receives $2,750 of Grants-in-Aid General Fund.
The AAPG is one of the world’s largest professional geological societies, and the AAPG Foundation GIA provides financial assistance to graduate students (currently enrolled in Masters or Ph.D. programs) whose thesis research has application to the search for and development of petroleum and energy-mineral resources, and/or to related environmental geology issues. In 2020, there are 110 recipients of GIA worldwide.
(Edited and translated from the Chinese version)
