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October 1, 2011
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2011
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) have become commonplace for use in tracking and linking to publications. At the American Geological Institute (AGI) DOIs for the full-text of publications are routinely embedded in many of its bibliographic databases including: GeoRef (the primary bibliographic...
October 1, 2011
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2011
With the economic malaise in the United States, colleges and universities are assessing the impact of academic programs related to their overall mission and constituency. Geoscience departments are facing pressure to demonstrate the return on investment of their educational program provides. The...
October 1, 2011
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 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...
October 1, 2011
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2011
The YES Network is an interdisciplinary global network of young and early-career geoscientists that connect primarily via web-based technologies to collaborate on geoscience projects, organize international conferences, and develop resources that help young and early-career progress along their...
March 28, 2011
National Research Council Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
February 18, 2011
National Petroleum Council Macro Economics Group
December 1, 2010
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2010
The International Union of Geological Sciences, with endorsement by UNESCO, has established a taskforce on global geosciences workforce and has tasked the American Geological Institute to take a lead. Springing from a session on global geosciences at the IGC33 in Oslo, Norway, the taskforce is to...
November 3, 2010
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2010
Demographic trends within academia, government, and industry indicate that approximately half of the geoscience workforce will be retiring over the next 10-15 years, and a much smaller number of younger geoscience professionals will be ready to step into these positions. Geoscience degree data from...
November 1, 2010
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting 2010
For the past several decades, community college students have comprised approximately one-third of the total college student population enrolled in credit courses within the United States. In 2008, underrepresented minority students comprised 33 percent of total community college enrollments, and...
Comparing "Geosciences" Across Borders and Cultures - How Seamless Can the Geosciences Move Globally
September 1, 2010
International Geoscience Education Conference (iGEO) 2010
The United States, based on prior IUGS estimates, currently has 50% of all working geoscientists resident and continues to educate about 50% of all new geosciences graduate degree recipients globally. Demographic and cultural trends in the United States, like most western nations, point...
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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.
