2013

Status of Recent Geoscience Graduates 2013

Monday, September 30, 2013

AGI’s 2013 Status of Recent Geoscience Graduates provides an overview analysis of the demographics, activities, and experiences of geoscience students that received their bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in the spring of 2013. This research draws attention to student preparation in the geosciences and their education and career path decisions. This report addresses many of the questions often raised when considering the transition into the workforce.

2013-2014 AGI Fisher Fellow Kristen Mitchell

The 2013-2014 William L. Fisher Congressional Geoscience Fellow is Kristen Mitchell. She worked in the office of Congressman Mike Honda of California. Mitchell graduated with her B.S. in Marine Chemistry from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida in 2005. After graduation, Mitchell moved to Europe for a Fulbright Student Fellowship where she studied microbial sulfate reduction at the University of Southern Denmark. During the course of her Ph.D., Mitchell studied at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Georgia Institute of Technology, and finally the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. She successfully defended her Ph.D. on the marine biogeochemical cycling of selenium isotopes at Utrecht University in 2012. Currently, Mitchell is a research associate in the Ecohydrology Research Group at the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on assessing the utility of remote sensing to identify plastic debris in the Great Lakes and in oceans. 

Sophia Ford

Sophia Ford has a bachelor’s degree in Geology from Kansas State University. Her undergraduate research focused on groundwater contamination from naturally occurring arsenic in the Bengal Delta of India. As an undergraduate she worked on a collaborative project with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and Kansas State to remediate groundwater that had been contaminated from a fertilizer spill. Both research experiences strengthened her desire to understand geoscience policy. Sophia currently works as an Assistant Scientist at HydroGeoLogic in Kansas City, Missouri, and plans to enter the Peace Corps in the spring of 2015. 

 

 

 

 

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