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August 10, 2020
To capture COVID-19 impacts to small businesses, the U.S. Census Bureau deployed the weekly Small Business Pulse Survey from April 26, 2020 to June 27, 2020. The survey specifically targeted non-farm, single-location businesses with receipts greater than or equal to $1,000 and with less than 500...
August 05, 2020
Federal datasets provide a broad view of workforce and economic trends and usually provide data on annual or quarterly granularity, although some provide monthly data. While their coarse granularity does not make them very useful for high-frequency, occupation-specific analysis, these datasets are...
July 31, 2020
Although over half of geoscience businesses expect to see no change in permanent staffing during the 2020 calendar year, since June 2020, one-third of businesses reported that they expect a decrease in permanent staffing this year. Expectations for 2020 staffing levels for temporary and contract...
July 10, 2020
Half of geoscience employers are expecting lower financial performance for this year compared to 2019 as a result of the pandemic. In February, nearly 40% of businesses reported an outlook of increased financial performance over last year, but by June, these expectations had lowered substantially.
July 03, 2020
Between February and June 2020, the employment status of recent geoscience graduates varied greatly based on when graduates earned their degree and based on degree level. While 96% of graduates who earned their degree between 2014-2018 were employed, only 59% of graduates who earned their degree...
June 26, 2020
We examined the most recent results from the Geoscience COVID-19 study regarding impacts to research activities during Spring 2020 from the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 60% of non-academic geoscientists and academic faculty deferred their research and project activities to a later time, whereas 47% of...
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...
June 12, 2020
This data brief provides insights from early study responses about the impacts from COVID-19 on geoscience academic departmental operations, specifically budgets, personnel, and plans for the Fall 2020 term. Nearly half of responding departments are expecting budget cuts between 5% and 20% for the...
June 05, 2020
This data brief provides preliminary insights from early responses about the changes in instructional environments during the Spring 2020 term. All responding departments shifted from in-person to online-only instruction during the Spring 2020 term. In addition to in-person courses, approximately...
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...
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