Academic Career Profiles

The life of a professor (or instructor) can vary greatly, because of the great variety of academic institutions. One way to assess whether a particular career track might be right for you is to read about the lives of people who have chosen that track -- what they do day to day, what the challenges and rewards of their jobs are, and so on. While none of the profiles below is meant to be "representative" of a particular academic setting, collectively they help to illustrate this variety. You can search the collection by highest degree granted (by their department), by typing text into the search box, or just by browsing.

Show career profile collections compiled by other organizations

Earth Science World, the Sloan Career Cornerstone Center, and Geotimes all have profiles of geoscientists.
The Joint Oceanographic Institutions have profiles of careers in scientific ocean drilling. OceanCareers.com has profiles of careers in the ocean sciences. The American Society of Limnology and Oceanography has career profiles for limnology and oceanography. And Deborah K. Smith, Lori Dolby, and Ed Schiele have compiled profiles of women oceanographers.
Uniserve Science has profiles of scientists, including geoscientists, as does the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
Natalie Mahowald, at Cornell, has posted an extensive downloadable document of interesting jobs in the geosciences that are available to people with Masters or PhDs. It's on her website.

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Career Profile: Jennifer Anderson part of Career Profiles
I grew up in eastern Wisconsin and went to the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, for my undergraduate degrees. I wanted to be an astronomer, so I started as an Astrophysics and Physics major. In my third year, ...

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Highest Degree Granted by Dept: Bachelor's degree

Career Profile: Matthew Kirby part of Career Profiles
Ever since high school, I knew I wanted to teach. But, it was not until my junior year at Hamilton College that I knew I wanted to teach at the college level. As a junior (1992), Dr. Eugene Domack offered me the ...

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Highest Degree Granted by Dept: Master's degree

Career Profile: Erin Kraal part of Career Profiles
I have a bachelors of science in geology from Washington and Lee University. Then I traveled to University of California Santa Cruz. First I earned my masters degree in surface processes. Then I changed advisors ...

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Highest Degree Granted by Dept: Bachelor's degree

Career Profile: Mike Williams part of Career Profiles
I have a BA from Amherst College (Geology), an M.S. from the University of Arizona (Structural Control of Ore Deposits), a PhD from the University of New Mexico (Metamorphic Petrology and Structural Geology). After ...

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Highest Degree Granted by Dept: Ph. D.

Career Profile: Devin Castendyk part of Career Profiles
In 1996, I received a BA in Geology from Hartwick College, a small, private, liberal arts college in Oneonta, New York. My experiences instilled in me a desire to teach geology at a small liberal arts institution. ...

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Highest Degree Granted by Dept: Bachelor's degree

Career Profile: Becca Walker part of Career Profiles
Educational background: B.A., Geology, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY Field camp, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID M.S., Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. I also completed the Certificate in ...

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Highest Degree Granted by Dept: Associate's degree

Career Profile: Rajul Pandya part of Career Profiles
I did graduate work at the University of Washington investigating the large-scale organization of thunderstorms. During a post-doc at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), I had the chance to teach ...

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Career Profile: Elizabeth Nagy part of Career Profiles
I received a PhD in Geology from Caltech in 1997. I held two post-doctoral positions in isotope geochemistry labs in Paris (1997-1999) and Syracuse University (2000-2001) and then taught high school Earth Science ...

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Highest Degree Granted by Dept: Associate's degree

Career Profile: Pamela Burnley part of Career Profiles
I received at MS and PhD in Geology from UC Davis after obtaining an undergraduate degree in Geology from Brown University. After grad school I worked as a post doc at Cornell, Princeton, and then CU Boulder for a ...

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Highest Degree Granted by Dept: Ph. D.

Career Profile: Ed Harvey part of Career Profiles
I received my BS in Geology/Geophysics from Olivet Nazarene College in 1986, my MS in Hydrogeochemistry from Purdue University in 1990, and my PhD in Hydrogeology from the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) ...

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Highest Degree Granted by Dept: Ph. D.

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