A national scholarship from the American Institute of Professional Geologists, the largest U.S. geoscience association focused on ethical and professional practice, awarded to graduate students in the geological sciences. It is the graduate counterpart to AIPG's undergraduate scholarship and, like that award, requires applicants to be AIPG student members or to have applied for student membership at the time of application. A letter of recommendation is part of the application, and past winners are listed publicly on the association's site. Useful for earth-science students whose funding search usually stops at the better-known GSA and AAPG programmes.