Dr. Sharon Mosher, former Dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, discusses the changing landscape of careers in geoscience and how undergraduate and graduate programs across the United States are responding to this challenge in preparing our future geoscientist workforce.
Over the last six years, the geoscience academic and employer communities has developed a robust consensus on concepts, skills, and competencies needed by undergraduates to be successful in graduate school and/or the workforce. Similar skills and competencies are needed for Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences graduate students but at a more advanced level.
Current and future careers in geoscience require key quantitative reasoning and computational skills and professional skills (communication, teamwork, project management, etc.) be included in geoscience educational programs along with discipline specific concepts and skills. Students should be developing competencies so that they can continue to use these concepts and skills to solve other geoscience problems in the future.
Geoscience employment is continuing to expand, but the careers of today will not be those of the next decade. Thus, departments need to prepare students for a significantly different future landscape. Department heads and chairs across the country are implementing changes to their programs to meet these needs. This presentation will discuss what undergraduate and graduate students need to be successful in the future and how departments are responding to this challenge.
Research that Matters: The Bureau of Economic Geology
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