Why Study Geoscience? Get a Job! | Get Professional! | Get Out and Learn Something! | Get into Graduate or Professional School!
Get a Job!
A wide variety of careers await our majors...
- Petroleum Industry
- Mining Industry
- Environmental Consulting
- URS Corporation, Barr Engineering, Sigma Environmental Service
- Federal Government
- EPA, US Geological Survey, US Fish and WIldlife Service
- National Laboratories
- Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Lawrence Livermore, etc.
- State Agencies
- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Minnesota Department of Health, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
- K-12 Education
- Visit http://www.agiweb.org/careers.html for more Geoscience career information
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Get Professional!
Here are just some of the things that professional Geoscientists do...
- Find adequate supplies of natural resources, such as ground water, petroleum, and metals.
- Conserve soils and maintain agricultural productivity.
- Develop natural resources in ways that safeguard the environment.
- Maintain quality of water supplies.
- Define the balance between society's demand for natural resources and the need to sustain healthy ecosystems.
- Understand global climate patterns.
- Reduce human suffering and property loss from natural hazards, such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, landslides, hurricanes, and tsunamis.
- Teach other people about the earth.
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Get Out and Learn Something!
Our classrooms aren't just in the science building - they are all over the world. Over the past few years, Geoscience majors have accompanied faculty members on field trips to...
- Costa Rica
- Iceland
- Hawaii
- Death Valley
- St. Francois Mountains
- Many other places closer to home!
Future field trips are being planned for...
- Mexico
- The Bahamas
- Alaska
- Appalachian Mountains
- Colorado Plateau
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Get into Graduate or Professional School!
Our curriculum is flexible and can be customized to prepare you for...
- Graduate School
- Medical School
- Law School
- MBA Programs
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