Awards & Scholarships
Members can now access the hub to apply for awards or nominate someone deserving. Don’t wait—start your application or nomination today at https://sciencesocieties.secure-platform.com/awards
Recognizing the achievements and impact of our members
ASA, CSSA, and SSSA awards celebrate students and professionals at all levels across our membership. Each year, we honor award recipients at our CANVAS awards ceremonies, within our Awards Brochure, and in CSA News.
You can nominate a deserving colleague or self-nominate to ensure the best candidates are recognized. Note that you cannot self-nominate for the Fellows Awards, Honorary Memberships, Gerald O. Mott Award or National Student Recognition Program.
How to get started
Review Awards:
You may want to review the full listings for each of the societies: ASA, CSSA, and SSSA to better identify appropriate options.
- Review Eligibility, Qualifications, and Deadline/s for each Award.
- Navigate to our new awards hub to view open awards and start your nomination.
CANVAS Travel Awards Now Open!
Looking for travel assistance to attend the 2025 CANVAS Meeting? Travel awards can help make it possible! These awards support students and professionals in presenting their research, networking with experts, and advancing their careers.
Explore available travel awards and apply today to secure funding for your trip to CANVAS. Most travel awards close July 15th, 2025 but check the Awards Hub for all open awards and deadlines.
Advancing Pedology Award
This award honors a significant peer-reviewed contribution made within the past five years that advances the field of pedology across areas like soil classification, morphology, genesis, or mapping. The award includes a $500 honorarium, waived abstract fees for CANVAS, and an invitation to present at the Advancing Pedology Colloquium during the conference.
Indian University Graduate Student Travel Award
To encourage the development of bright young soil scientists or agronomists who have recently completed their Ph.D. from a university in India, in the general area of quantifying soil-water-crop-climate process interactions and their applications in management.
Caregiver Travel Award
To support attendees who face challenges in attending CANVAS due to expenses related directly to their responsibilities as the primary caregiver for a child or other dependent.
Advancing Pedology Award
This award honors a significant peer-reviewed contribution made within the past five years that advances the field of pedology across areas like soil classification, morphology, genesis, or mapping. The award includes a $500 honorarium, waived abstract fees for CANVAS, and an invitation to present at the Advancing Pedology Colloquium during the conference.
Bridge Scholars
The Bridge Scholars Program encourages scientific development in agricultural and environmental sciences through scholarship, networking, and professional development for all students including those in historically under-represented groups.
Graduate Student Travel Award
To support qualified students who plan to present research at CANVAS, and are unable to attend the meeting without additional outside financial assistance (not fully supported by the professor, department, or program), and can provide justification outlining how meeting attendance will benefit their careers.
Hans Jenny Soil Field Trip Award
To support SSSA student participation in field trips/tours offered at CANVAS by subsidizing their participation.
Henry Lin Travel Grant
To support graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, who fit within the broad area of soil science in the form of a travel award, specifically for CANVAS.
Jeffrey L. Smith Graduate Student Travel Award
This travel award supports a graduate student presenting research in Soil Biology & Biochemistry or Forest, Range & Wildland Soils at CANVAS and encourages participation in these divisions.
Robert J. Luxmoore Graduate Student Travel Award
This award supports graduate students presenting research in Forest, Range & Wildland Soils at CANVAS.
Luxmoore Soil Physics Student Travel Award
This award provides travel support to undergraduate or graduate students presenting research in Soil Physics and Hydrology at CANVAS.
Military Veterans in Agriculture Award
This travel award supports up to four undergraduate or graduate student veterans from the U.S. or abroad in attending CANVAS to explore careers in agronomic and environmental sciences through scholarship, networking, and comradery.
Soil and Water Management and Conservation Division Graduate Student Award
This award recognizes a graduate student conducting innovative research in soil and water conservation with a $350 travel stipend to support attendance at CANVAS.
Policies and Notes
- Award committee members may not be a nominee, nominator, or reference for the award for which their committee is responsible. They can participate in all other awards. View the ASA, CSSA, and SSSA Boards of Directors' specific policies regarding their eligibility.
- It is best to use the Society's email address that we have on file. View the Member Directory to view the Society email address.
Questions: Contact us at Send Message.
2025 Deadlines
Awards and Scholarships
- January 21st, 2025 – Awards open
- March 25th, 2025 – Submit the nomination AND required number of reference letters
- April 8th, 2025 – CANVAS Travel Awards Open
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