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May 21, 2012
In the 2010-2011 academic year, the level of female participation in U.S. geoscience degree programs remained generally steady. Female enrollments and degrees at the undergraduate level continues to trail those of the graduate level, except for the percentage of doctorates awarded to women. After a...
May 15, 2012
In addition to collecting qualitative data that generated the students’ pathways, Houlton surveyed the students about their intrinsic motivation toward pursuing the geosciences. The survey was a 7-point Likert-based scale developed from the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory, which is an instrument...
May 10, 2012
AGI found that only 33% of sophomore geoscience majors graduate with their geoscience degree, with the majority of attrition occurring during sophomore and junior years (AGI Workforce Report, 2011). Unfortunately, data explaining this phenomena are still limited. AGI is trying to understand this...
May 08, 2012
A follow-up study was conducted from Houlton’s 2010 research that surveyed 13 of the original 17 participants who were geoscience majors. Students’ pathways toward their geoscience careers demonstrated some key similarities and differences between population groups, which have evolved from the...
May 02, 2012
During the 2010-2011 academic year, geoscience enrollments and degrees granted retreated slightly from their peak in the prior year. After several years of strong growth, general enrollments and degrees awarded slipped back to numbers comparable to those in 2008-2009, at all degree levels. In...
November 01, 2011
Attendance at U.S. field camps reached 2,525 in 2011, up 10 percent from 2010. Field camp attendance for 2011 was reported by 94 of the existing 118 U.S. field camps. (Some field camps run on alternating years). Recent increases in field camp attendance are attributed to both increased overall...
October 28, 2011
AGI’s GeoConnection Recruitment Packets provide geoscience departments with a tool to directly engage prospective geoscience majors in a discussion about the many career opportunities in the geosciences, and about the importance of participation in geoscience professional societies and conferences...
September 30, 2011
Employment in geoscience-related occupations is expected to grow about 23 percent between 2008 and 2018, which is much faster than the average growth of all U.S. occupations (10%). Environmental engineers are expected to see the largest growth in number of new jobs with a 31 percent growth rate,...
September 26, 2011
Over the past year, aggregate employment in geoscience-related occupations has remained relatively steady. A few occupations (environmental engineers, mining and geological engineers, environmental scientists, geoscientists, and hydrologists) have seen a slight contraction in occupational...
September 19, 2011
In 2010, average aggregated salaries for geoscience-related occupations ranged from $137,660 for geoscience-related occupations in the finance and insurance industry to $69,949 for geoscience-related occupations in state government. Salary ranges for the aggregated occupations were as narrow as $26...
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