The USGS posted a link to their "Career Cards" that talk about different jobs within the survey. The cards cover the Biologist, Biological Science Technician, Cartographer, Chemist, Ecologist, Geographer, Geologist, Hydrologist, Hydrologic Technician and Physical Scientist.
The American Geosciences Institute's Center for Geoscience and Society and the National Association of Geoscience Teachers are collaborating with other organizations and member societies to support implementation of the Earth and space science Next Generation Science Standards.
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology is a diverse organization of scientists, students, artists, preparators, advocates, writers and scholars across the globe, who are dedicated to the study, discovery, interpretation and preservation of vertebrate fossils.
The American Association of Geographers (AAG) have launched a dashboard to provide members access to data on geography and geographers. These data can be used to help support applications to establish new degree programs, or encourage students to major in geography and provide insight into the status of geography literacy and national trends in higher education.
If you weren't able to make it to Goldschmidt 2016, fear not. A summary report of Goldschmidt 2016 was published in Elements Magazine. The report provides overview the number of attendees and which countries they represented as well as summaries of different student programs hosted at the meeting, for instance, the "Meet the Plenary" luncheons.
The Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) recently wrote an article based on research published in their journal. Soil contamination is a societal challenge, but adequately testing for contamination is a costly and time intensive process.
The Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) Foundation is pleased to announce the application period for the Ph.D. Fellowship and Academic Career Development Grants will run December 1, 2016 – January 31, 2017. The program was implemented in 2015 to address the long-term sustainability of U.S. mining engineering, mineral processing and extractive metallurgy academic degree programs, and particularly the declining number of senior faculty members teaching those programs.
Announced the society news section of Elements Magazine, the Mineralological Society of America (MSA) President Rebecca Lange, shared that the society is exploring a new publishing initiative. An electronic-only data journal is viewed as a community need, since several disciplines across the geosciences are creating dataset repositories.
