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Sunday, 14 June 2015

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New Five Year Program in Sustainable Development & Sustainability Management 

State of the Planet [2015-06-14 22:46:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info

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Columbia University’s Earth Institute and School of Continuing Education, in collaboration with Columbia College and General Studies, are pleased to announce the launch of an Accelerated Program in Sustainable Development and Sustainability Management. Through this new program, majors and special concentrators in Sustainable Development can earn both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in just

Summer 2015 SEE-U Study Abroad Experience 

State of the Planet [2014-12-11 20:15:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info
Apply now to the Summer 2015 Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates program. Undergraduate students of all majors can apply for the opportunity to conduct field work and study unique ecosystems

Advice to high school senior 

Seismos [2014-07-14 00:25:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (711 visits) info

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Jul 13, 2014, at 1:55 PMHello,My name is Ross [----] and I will be a senior at [----] High school in Missouri this year. I am considering either geology or geophysics as a major for college. I am specifically looking for guidance regarding the future job outlook for both of these careers in the next 20 years. I am also considering majoring in petroleum engineering and need some insight about the advantages and disadvantages concerning this career compared to geology/geophysics. Also, [...]

Independents Outweigh Majors by 5 to 1 

Geology.com News [2014-04-20 13:39:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (52 visits) info
An article on the FuelFix website gives examples of how the shale plays have been grabbed and held mainly by small to medium-size oil

#61 October 2013: What do you do? 

GeoMika [2013-10-02 05:48:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
I’ve been getting emails from students and proto-geos trying to understand what the practical differences of the various geoscience jobs are: how is geophysics different than geochemistry? What coursework is helpful if you’re too far along to switch majors, but … Continue reading

Core Skills in the Geosciences: A Follow-up 

Magma Cum Laude [2013-06-19 19:14:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (62 visits) info
Last April, I had a discussion with some of my fellow graduate students in the geology department here at UB about teaching. One topic raised by those of us working with senior undergraduates was the skills our students would need to have by the time they left the department. We realized that many students take winding paths on the way to finishing a major for various reasons, including that they transferred from another school, they switched majors, or they are double-majoring and have time [...]

Explore Field Ecology in Puerto Rico 

State of the Planet [2013-01-02 18:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info
The Earth Institute's Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates (SEE-U) program provides undergraduate students of all majors from all accredited colleges or universities with a global understanding of ecology and environmental

Geology ranked #7 among top professions 

Arizona Geology [2012-05-26 19:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (48 visits) info
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Forbes magazine ranks Geology at the 7th most valuable college major "in terms of salary and career prospects." [Right, credit Resolution Copper] They used PayScale's "massive compensation database and job growth projections through 2020 from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics." Forbes listed college majors by "median starting pay, median mid-career pay (at least 10 years

Summer 2012 SEE-U Study Abroad Experience 

State of the Planet [2012-03-05 22:23:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
Summer 2012 applications for the Student Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduate program are now being accepted. Undergraduate students of all majors can apply for the opportunity to conduct field work and study unique ecosystems

William & Mary geology: 50th anniversary 

Mountain Beltway [2011-11-09 14:11:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (28 visits) info
The geology program at the College of William & Mary turned 50 years old this year, and last weekend they held a party to celebrate. Of the 800 or so geology majors the department has produced in 50 years, about 100 came to this event – that’s a pretty great ratio, I think: 1 out of every 8 alumni made the trek back to Williamsburg to pay tribute to this

Apply Now for Summer Ecosystem Experience for Undergraduates (SEE-U) 

State of the Planet [2011-03-16 16:54:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (42 visits) info
Apply now for the next rolling admission for the Summer Ecosystem Experience for Undergraduates (SEE-U) program by March 28th. The SEE-U program provides undergraduate students of all majors from all accredited colleges or universities with a global understanding of ecology and environmental sustainability. It provides students with the opportunity to conduct fieldwork in unique natural

Why am I a geology major? 

Mountain Cat Geology [2011-02-07 05:14:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (13 visits) info
After three years of schooling at the university level, I managed to stumble upon the geology major. Up until my junior year, I bounced around from quite a few different majors and areas of study. Each career path I set myself on was very unique from the next. Going into my third year of college,

Florida State Geology Program Reinstated 

Reporting on a Revolution [2011-01-20 11:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (43 visits) info
Some time back I wrote a couple of depressing posts describing the ongoing budget cuts at Florida State University and the likelihood of the geology department - along with some other majors -  losing its bachelors degree program and some of its faculty. The bachelors program was eventually suspended but some of the let off faculty fought back and went to arbitration. The judge ruled in

Mining claim fee pits juniors against majors in Nevada 

Arizona Geology [2010-08-21 05:31:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (17 visits) info
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The battle over a new set of state fees on unpatented mining claims in Nevada appears to pitting the small miner against the majors.A recently formed Nevada Mineral Exploration Coalition says "Section 47 of Assembly Bill 6 enacted by the Special Session of the Nevada Legislature (the Act)... increased the fee payable by the owner of an unpatented mining claim on the recording of a notice

Mining engineers’ starting salaries in top ten 

I think mining [2010-03-31 16:56:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (5 visits) info
   From the National Association of Colleges and Employees (NACE), which bills itself as a site “dedicated to the employment of the college educated” comes this report on the salaries of new graduates: Engineering majors dominate the list of top-paid bachelor’s degrees.   NACE’s Winter 2010 Salary Survey shows that engineering disciplines account for eight of the 10 most

Ten Worst Corporations for Women to Work For: Why Should Earth Scientists Care? 

Geotripper [2010-03-04 09:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (17 visits) info
The first time I saw any data about women in the geological sciences was a long time ago, but a brochure dating from the 1960's pointed out that only 2% of geologists were women (no link; this is from an old memory), and by 1989, that number was 10% (although 40% of majors at that time were female). Back then (way back then), I heard explanations that the oilfields were no place for

Trabajo de paleontólogo en la Universidad de Arizona 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [2009-05-08 17:35:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (16 visits) info
Nos ha llegado información de un puesto de trabajo para un paleontólogo doctor en la Universidad de Arizona en EE.UU. Os adjuntamos la informaciónUniversity of Arizona - Post-doctoral research scientist/temporary instructor - PaleobiologyThe Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona seeks to hire a post-doctoral research scientist in the area of paleobiology. Duties will include research, publication and proposal-preparation in areas such as historical ecology, conservation [...]

Scientiae: surviving getting shaked and baked 

All my faults are stress related [2009-03-28 07:31:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (6 visits) info
This month's Scientiae is about overcoming challenges: our worst moments, and how we survived them. I've had trouble deciding which story to tell. Field camp? Running out of food while dropped off by helicopter? Not finding the rocks that were supposed to be in my dissertation field area? Bad dates (geologic, that is)? I had some disastrous fieldwork in grad school, yeah, but I think my worst experience came from teaching. In fact, my teaching lost me a job. But I'm getting ahead of myself... [...]

Redesigning a broken course 

All my faults are stress related [2009-03-11 17:35:00]  recommend  4 recommendations  (12 visits) info
I've got a course that (IMO) is broken, and I'm working on fixing it. I've been teaching a course called "The Control of Nature" (after John McPhee's book) for 16 years, after thinking of the idea on my way home from my first academic job interview. (Yes, that was a bad time to come up with an answer to a question like "what other class could you teach?" No, I didn't get that job.) I've taught it as an intro course for non-majors and as an upper-level interdisciplinary general education [...]

Workshop opportunities: building strong geoscience departments, early-career faculty, and future faculty 

All my faults are stress related [2009-03-06 20:00:00]  recommend  1 recommendations  (3 visits) info
Earth is going to be here for the foreseeable future. Will there be geoscientists to help everyone else figure out how to deal with it? The people who organize the Cutting Edge geoscience teaching workshops have another set of workshops, aimed at helping geoscience departments figure out how to grow and stay vibrant. This is particularly challenging for the geosciences, because we're on both sides of environmental issues. Our majors might end up looking for oil and gas or for ore deposits, or [...]
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