Alums' Careers
We began the 2007 workshop on "The Role of Departments in Preparing Future Geoscience Professionals" by having the participants introduce themselves and name a career pursued by one of their former students. Participants were not allowed to repeat a career already mentioned by someone else. Here is the list of careers we generated.
- Geoscience professor
- Environmental consultant
- Peace Corps volunteer
- Environmental lawyer
- Petroleum industry
- Local oil and gas company
- Museum curator
- Land use planner
- Dentist
- Investment firm, writing mining reports
- Risk assessment for an insurance company
- Host of the PBS science show "Wired"
- International Water and Boundary Commission
- State geological survey, mapper
- Bartender
- NJ geological survey, studying coastal replenishment
- Mining industry (gold and diamonds)
- Quality Assurance specialist (checking field work)
- Politician
- Medical engineer
- Author of books on how to solve video games
- Web designer
- Civil engineer
- High school teacher
- Public health
- Blockbuster video, using mapping skills to coordinate truck runs
- Brewmaster
- "Top secret" work for the government
- US geological survey, modeling of dirty bombs
- Ski-lift operator
- Space scientist
- Bureaucrat
- Outward Bound co-ordinator
- Industrial contractor looking for unexploded ordnances
- Project engineer for state highway system
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Non-profit environmental organization
- Marine archeology
- Minister
- Science writer
- NSF publicity person
- Military officer
- Astronomy technician
- Audubon Society
- Higher education administration