About the Bradley Scholar Program

The Bradley Scholar Program honors the contributions of Wilmot Hyde “Bill” Bradley (Chief Geologist, 1944-1959). Chief Geologist Bill Bradley strongly supported attaining a balanced program of applied and basic research. Under his leadership, scientists applied multidisciplinary techniques in investigating uranium and other rare-element deposits. Bradley, however, is best known for his fundamental and applied studies of past and present lakes and their sediments, especially Green River oil shales. The geologic community recognized Bradley’s contributions in 1972 with the GSA Penrose Medal. Like Chief Geologists David White and Walter Mendenhall before him, the personable, witty, and selfless Bradley strongly supported a balanced program of research founded on their view that “to apply science to human needs, there must be science to apply.”
The purpose of the Bradley Scholar Program is to provide support to Geologic Discipline Scientists Emeriti for (1) completing legacy work and (2) conducting new basic or applied research in earth sciences.

Legacy Component – For the purposes of this program, legacy work includes unfinished experimental, mapping, or interpretative work, begun during your career at the USGS, and which can be completed within two years. Proposals may request funding for one or two years.

New Research Component – This component supports scientific studies started after your retirement that relate to the overall mission of the Geology Discipline. Proposals may request funding for one, two, or three years.
Each Scientist Emeritus may submit only one proposal. However, this proposal may contain multiple tasks, and each task can be either legacy or new research. Joint applications with other Scientists Emeriti will be accepted.

For multiple year requests, progress of work will be evaluated annually by the review panel, and second and third year funding will be dependent upon meeting scheduled milestones and/or developing promising new directions, as well as continued availability of Bradley Scholar Program funding.
It is expected that $100,000 will again be allocated to this program, and that approximately 60% of the funds will be directed toward legacy work and 40% for new research. Funding is generally limited to $5,000 per Scientist Emeritus.
If you plan to apply to the Bradley Scholar Program, please read the “Proposal Preparation Guidelines” section of the Scientist Emeritus Web site.

Bradley Scholar Recipients

FY07 Bradley Scholar Projects and Recipients

1. Heavy minerals in Northwest Wyoming and nearby areas in Montana and Idaho – John C. Antweiler
2. Tectonic history of the Los Angeles basin region – Larry A. Beyer
3. Spatial and environmental effects of various smelter-related toxic elements in the Eureka district and vicinity – Maurice A. Chaffee
4. Chicken Creek and Argyl quadrangles, South Dakota – Jack B. Epstein
5. Geochronology and stratigraphy of the rocks adjacent to the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado – James E. Fassett
6. Surficial geologic map and descriptive pamphlet of Noatak National Preserve – Thomas D. Hamilton
7. Coarse-grained arkosic strata in northwestern Nevada:  petrology, origin, and correlatives – Keith B. Ketner
8. Geologic map of Gold Creek Gold District, Elk County, Nevada – Keith B. Ketner
9. 40Ar/39Ar age measurements of the volcano at Vesuvius, Italy – Marvin A. Lanphere
10. Supervolcanoes in a North American Andean-type arc setting: Mid-Tertiary volcanism in the Southern Rocky Mountains – Peter W. Lipman
11. Completion of Grand Canyon National Park maps – Ivo Lucchitta
12. Origin and age of a complex array of surficial deposits and to reconstruct the recent prehistory of the San Luis Valley Park – Richard F. Madole
13. Late Jurassic dinosaurian ecosystems in the Western Interior – Fred Peterson
14. REE in pelletal phosphate deposits from the Phanerozoic – David Z. Piper
15. Early molluscan phylaogeny and evolution based on the fossil record – John Pojeta, Jr.
16. Completion of field work in the Sonora Desert and in Nevada - Forrest (Barney) Poole
17. The Roots of the Colorado Rocky Mountains – John C. Reed
18. Proximal and distal areas of sedimentary deposits that resulted from the Late Devonian marine Alamo Impact by a bolide – Charles A. Sandberg
19. Migration of Tephrachronology Lab data to a relational database - Andrei M Sarna-Wojcicki
20. Anatomy of the Mazama Park eruptive period at Mount Baker, North Cascades – Kevin M. Scott
21. Slick Rock uranium-vanadium district in southwestern Colorado – Daniel R. Shawe
22. Precambrian basement in continental United States – Paul K. Sims
23. Ellsworth schist and Castine volcanics of the Ellsworth-Mascarene Terrane, coastal Maine – David B. Stewart
24. Summarizing Marine Investigations of Subduction Zones in Support of the USGS Tsunami Source Working Group in Menlo Park – Roland von Huene
25. Quaternary Santa Clara Valley – Carl M. Wentworth
26. Two hundred year interpretive history of Kilauea volcano – Thomas L. Wright

If you have any questions, please contact Lauel Bybell at lbybell@usgs.gov.