Muhammad Qasim Mahmood has been awarded the 2024 Graduate Student Research Grant from the Geological Society of America (GSA). Qasim’s project involves groundwater mapping and modeling in PEI under human and climate change impacts.
The GSA graduate research grant is one of the highly competitive research grants, with a success rate of less than 50 percent. The primary objective of this grant is to partially support graduate students’ master’s and doctoral thesis research in the geological sciences. Each year, the grant is awarded to graduate students who are enrolled in universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America, based on the overall quality and merit of their research proposals.
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