April 13, 2016
Benchmarks: April 22, 1995: GLOBE is launched
Studying the global environment requires collecting numerous detailed observations. And although it may seem today like we’re awash in such data, …
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April 25, 2014
Beyond rocks for jocks: Elevating geoscience education
When I was an undergraduate student, all liberal arts students were required to take a science course as a general education requirement. If I …
October 1, 2013
Undergraduates build and launch a satellite to measure atmospheric drag
In 2000, the International Space Station (ISS) was the victim of a severe geomagnetic storm: a wave of solar particles hit Earth’s atmosphere, …
August 5, 2013
Core skills in the geosciences: The geoblogosphere chimes in on what students need to know
Last April, I had a discussion with some of my fellow graduate students in the geology department at the University at Buffalo, the State …
January 5, 2012
Student scientists cast a long shadow
Last December, in the enormous, fluorescent-lit hall of San Francisco’s Moscone Center South, thousands of geophysicists and geologists milled …
January 5, 2012
Highlights of 2011: Jobs, jobs everywhere, but not enough people to fill them
This has been a vintage year for the health of the geoscience workforce in the United States. Overall enrollments and degrees in geoscience …