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January 07, 2022
This data brief examines the monthly employment trends for geoscience occupations and industry-level employment trends for the sectors in which geoscientists work. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey provides monthly occupational employment data, while data from the U.S....
June 10, 2021
U.S. geoscience enrollments, 2019-2020
Enrollments in U.S. geoscience programs experienced marked declines in the 2019-2020 academic year. Though the number of departments reporting enrollments was the same as the prior year, undergraduate enrollments dropped 10% and graduate enrollments...
February 05, 2021
As of December 2020, 91% of geoscience graduates who earned their degree between 2014-2018 were employed, while 75% of graduates from 2019 and 80% of graduates from 2020 reported the same. For geoscience graduates who earned their degree in 2020, 31% of bachelor’s, 50% of master’s, and 91% of...
January 08, 2021
In this data brief, we examine how engagement in co-curricular and professional development activities have varied during the pandemic. Since June, attending webinars was the only activity that ranked in the top three co-curricular and professional development activities across all survey...
September 08, 2020
As of August 2020, 94% of geoscience graduates who earned their degree between 2014-2018 were employed, while 77% of graduates from 2019 and 44% of graduates from 2020 reported the same. For geoscience graduates who earned their degree this year, 16% of bachelor's, 57% of master's, and 91% of...
May 05, 2020
Memories of the great oil crash of the 1980s and the ensuing collapse in geoscience enrollments has created a general view that the health of employment and enrollments in the geosciences is coupled to the price of oil. The geoscience enterprise in the United States is substantially more...
January 17, 2020
On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed HR 1865 into law, granting one of the first full budgets to federal government agencies in several years. Though the proposed budget by the President included widespread budget cuts for science-related activities, the budget bill passed by the House and...
October 25, 2019
According to recent American Geosciences Institute (AGI) workforce data, less than 11% of geoscience graduates receiving a BA/BS or MA/MS degree develop a career in academia and/or research. Given this statistic, the question then arises: How are geologists making a living upon graduation in 2019?...
September 15, 2019
Changes in discoverability of geoscience theses and dissertations
Geoscience departments provide information about their graduating students’ theses and dissertations to AGI’s GeoRef database where they are then made discoverable to the geoscience research community. The trends in theses and...
September 15, 2019
Since the 1970’s an increasing number of economic geology theses and dissertations in the U.S. and Canada have focused on energy sources. Until the 1990’s, however, over half of all economic geology dissertations and just over half of all economic geology theses focused on ore deposits. In the 1990...
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