Earl Cook Award for Best Student Paper

Background: The Earl Cook award has been awarded on annual basis since the establishment of the EESG. The award is named for Earl F. Cook (1920-1983), an American geologist and early leader in developing an integrative approach to assessing energy resource supply and consumption (For Dr. Cleveland's biography of Cook, see: www.eoearth.org/view/article/151450). Cook served as Dean of the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M from 1971 to 1981.

The student award paper provides a cash award of $250 and a plaque to recognize outstanding research scholarship. The cash prize and plaque are awarded during the business meeting of the EESG at the AAG annual meeting.

Qualifications:

• Multi-authored papers are acceptable, but the student must be the lead author of the paper.
• The candidate must be an enrolled graduate student at the time of submission
• All treatments (theoretical, conceptual, methodological) of energy geography topics are valid
• The candidate must present the paper at AAG

Review Criteria:

• Originality
• Significance of topic
• Contribution to literature
• Theoretical contribution
• Execution (including analysis and clarity of expression)

Submission instructions:

• Submit a title and brief 100 word abstract to Awards Committee Chair, Mike Pasqualetti, pasqualetti@asu.edu, likely around November 2019.
• Full submissions will be due in early 2020.