SMEDG Geoscience Honours Student Scholarship program

SMEDG is committed to supporting geoscience education and the future minerals industry. The annual SMEDG Geoscience Honours Student Scholarship with a total value of $10,000 is open to students from a NSW or ACT based university with projects related to economic geology (exploration and/or mining).

Applications for 2027 now open!

SMEDG 2027 Geoscience Honours Scholarship Guideline and Application form available here, with applications due 11 March 2027.

2027 GEOSCIENCE HONOURS STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION FORM

SMEDG Geoscience Honours

Student Scholarship winners

2026

Scholarship winners 2026

Katya Orlova (ANU)An Appetite for Apatite: Investigating Apatite Geochemistry as an Exploration Tool for Carbonatite REE Deposits.
Dominic Gibson (ANU)Determining the mineral paragenesis of the Boda deposit, NSW, Australia.
Stephan Kashkarov (ANU)Structural and Geochemical analysis of the Gifford creek carbonatite complex.
Maresa Moustakis (UNSW)Modern hydrothermal mineralisation in the Mediterranean Sea: Key to the past?

2025

Scholarship winners 2025

Charlotte Billinghurst (UNSW)The role of native vegetation as hyperaccumulators of heavy metals in rehabilitation programs at NSW mine sites
Penelope Beltran-Rehberg (SydUni)A mechanism for regional granulite facies metamorphism in the Broken Hill domain (NSW), and implications for exploration
Bae Beezley (ANU)Characterisation of niobium mineralisation in the Gifford Creek Carbonatite Complex (WA)
Rory Mackett (UNE)The Wisemans Arm Formation – its implications for regional tectonism and exploration in the New England Orogen (NSW)