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June 19, 2020
In this data brief we examine changes in the workforce status and impacts to workplace activities between February and June 2020 based on initial responses from the Geoscience COVID-19 study. Most study participants were actively working during this period, with 71% working as geoscience...
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...
April 22, 2020
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, total U.S. geoscience employment was 278,945 at the end of 2019, down from 306,816 at the start of the year. For occupations in the solid-earth geosciences, employment over the same period shrunk 7.5% to 216,556.
Several geoscience occupations, primarily...
September 26, 2019
Employment projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate an overall 6.2% increase in geoscience jobs between 2018 and 2028, from 404,640 jobs in 2018 to 429,703 jobs in 2028. For comparison, the projected growth of the U.S. workforce over the same timeframe is expected to be 5.2%....
April 29, 2019
While most geoscience graduates who secured geoscience positions near the time of graduation found jobs domestically, 4% of bachelor's graduates, 2% of master's graduates, and 9% of doctoral graduates accepted geoscience positions outside of the United States. Within the United States, graduating...
July 06, 2018
Between 2014 and 2017, 2376 geoscience graduates took AGI’s Geoscience Student Exit Survey--1764 bachelor’s graduates, 378 master’s graduates, and 234 doctoral graduates. In September 2017, AGI’s Workforce Program followed up with these Exit Survey participants to ask them about their career path...
April 24, 2018
The Status of Recent Geoscience Graduates 2017 report examines the prior five years of data and explores a number of emerging trends. In particular, the trends of employment of recent graduates in the geosciences and of the recent graduates planning to attend graduate school are showing new...
August 12, 2016
Every two years, the AGI Workforce Program synthesizes and analyzes national data sets that track the changes in the labor workforce to look for changes in the geoscience workforce. To provide an accurate count of the geoscientists working in the United States, AGI's definition of the geosciences...
October 16, 2014
In the Status of the Workforce Report 2014, a future workforce shortage of 135,000 geoscientists was shown. This Currents expands on the process of determining this estimated workforce shortage.
The data used to look at the future supply and demand of geoscientists come from multiple sources: the...
October 23, 2013
AGI’s National Geoscience Student Exit Survey measures the relevant experiences in school and the immediate career plans upon graduation of recent geoscience degree recipients. In spring 2013, AGI distributed this survey nationally and received 428 responses from 71 geoscience departments. This...
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