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August 27, 2021
Overall geoscience-related salaries increased by 2% between 2019 and 2020, which was in line with other science and engineering occupations. The greatest increases in median salaries within the geosciences were geoscience natural science managers (7% increase) and soil and plant scientists,...
July 09, 2021
In April 2021, we asked survey participants in the AGI Geoscience COVID-19 Impacts study if their work and/or research productivity had been negatively impacted by caregiving and other domestic responsibilities, and if they had reduced their work / research hours because of these responsibilities...
July 02, 2021
In April 2021, we asked academic faculty to estimate the amount of time they spent doing committee work, writing, research, and teaching during this past academic year.
Committees
The percentage of female tenured and tenure-track faculty spending more than 10% of their time on committee work was...
June 25, 2021
This data brief provides updated data from AGI's Geoscience COVID-19 Impacts survey about the adaptations that faculty and students have implemented in response to teaching and learning from home, productivity levels of faculty and students, and the benefits and challenges related to teaching and...
June 18, 2021
In February 2021, we surveyed participants in the Geoscience COVID-19 Survey about their perspectives on the importance of business skills, database skills, graphic design, data visualization, data science, and programming to the geoscience profession and their proficiency with these skills....
June 11, 2021
This data brief provides an update on the changes in geoscience academic instructional environments as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine how instructional formats for courses, labs, and field activities have changed over the past year, what components are being used in virtual instruc...
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...
June 04, 2021
This data brief provides an update on the experiences of geoscience students during the pandemic, including impacts on degree progress, students’ intent to continue in their degree programs, how advising is being conducted, co-curricular and professional development activities, and concerns driven...
May 21, 2021
This data brief provides an update on the state of geoscience academic departments during the COVID-19 pandemic, including budgets, staffing, changes to degree requirements and promotion and tenure guidelines, and planning for the next academic term.
Budget Changes
Most departments (58%)...
May 07, 2021
This data brief provides insights from the most recent results from the Geoscience COVID-19 study regarding impacts to geoscience K-12 faculty during the pandemic. We examine the change in primary work location of K-12 faculty, work and research activities, engagement with professional development...
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