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October 25, 2006
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2006
The geosciences have endured a long history of booms and busts in employment and enrollment. Before 2005, nearly twenty years had past since the end of the last real boom for the geosciences. However, with the sharp rise in energy and mineral prices, as well as a fundamental shift in...
October 23, 2006
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2006
The geosciences have a substantial contribution to make for society on the issue of sustainability, however, very often that contribution is not effectively heard. This stems from both a communication issue and a failure to be visible in its engagement of contributing to the betterment of...
July 28, 2006
American Geological Institute, 2006
A growing portion of decision makers in academia, private industry, and government are concerned about shortages in the science, engineering, and technology (SET) workforce. This heightened awareness is in part to several reports released in the last year looking at that nation’s competitiveness in...
June 9, 2006
American Geological Institute, 2006
Introductory geoscience courses in higher education are a major source of public exposure for the geosciences and anecdotally are cited as an important source for recruiting geoscience majors. The number of geoscience majors has been decreasing since a peak in the 1980s, and because of this...
December 5, 2005
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2005
For most of the last 50 years, the fortunes of geoscience programs at the university level have waxed and waned with the health of the natural resources industries. These industries, and petroleum in particular, have experience major boom and bust cycles, of which geoscience programs often...
December 1, 2005
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2005
The geosciences in the United States have historically been driven by domestic needs and often resorted to importation of expertise to meet demand. During this time, US geoscience has experienced a number of major booms and busts, but today is, as a discipline, less dependent on the immediate...
September 20, 2005
National Geoscience Data Repositories Meeting 6
August 15, 2005
American Geological Institute; American Geophysical Union; American Institute of Physics, 2005
This study documents employment patterns and demographic characteristics of recent PhDs. It summarizes the latest annual survey of recent Earth, Space, Atmospheric, and Ocean Science PhDs conducted by the American Geological Institute (AGI), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the Statistical...
March 29, 2005
American Geological Institute, 2005
The American Geological Institute conducted a baseline survey of geoscience departments in the United States about the levels of enrollment in various categories of introductory geoscience courses. The survey resulted in an actual census of 137,180 students in 241 reporting departments. When a...
December 1, 2004
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2004
In the year 2000, the American Geological Institute (AGI) began developing its EarthInquiry activity series. Since that time, seven full-length activities have been released. Each EarthInquiry activity enables introductory college students to interact with real-time and archived geoscience data....
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Recent Geoscience Currents
Geoscience Currents transmit snapshots of the many facets of the geoscience profession, in-depth case studies of how geoscience is applied, factsheets that provide rigorous introductions to a range of geoscience topics, workforce trends, and career paths.