EEPS is committed to the academic success of all our students and for providing information about the kinds of careers that are available to geoscientists. The outline below shows the breadth of areas in which geoscientists may apply their interests and broad skillsets.
Careers in the Earth Sciences
JOBS Presentation (Dr. Sylvia Dee) (pdf)
Academia/Research
- M.S and Ph.D. Programs
- Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Research Institutions (e.g. Carnegie Institution)
- Teaching (K-12; Universities)
- Technical Specialist for Analytical Equipment
- Laboratory Manager
Education and Outreach
- Museum (collections management & public programs)
- Media (Wired, Massive, Undark, BBC, etc.)
- Teaching (K-12)
- American Geophysical Union
- American Geosciences Institute
Energy Sector
- Bureau of Economic Geology
- Energy companies
- Apache
- BP
- BHP Billiton
- Chevron
- Conoco-Philips
- EDF Renewables
- ExxonMobil
- NRG
- Shell
- Schlumberger
Environmental
- Climate Corporations
- Climate Lobbyist
- Coastal Hazards
- Conservation Ecologist
- Environmental Law
- Groundwater resources management / consultant
Foundations / Nonprofit
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Memorial Park Conservancy
- Nature Conservancy
- Sierra Club
- Union of Concerned Scientists
Government & Public Policy
- AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow
- City of Houston
- US Department of Agriculture
- USDA Salinity Lab
- US Department of Defense
- US Department of Energy
- US Environmental Protection Agency
- National Aeronautics & Space Administration
- National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
- US Department of the Interior
- Bureau of Land Management
- Smithsonian Institution
- US Forest Service
- US Geological Survey
- US National Park Service
- National Labs
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Sandia National Laboratories
- National Science Foundation
- Water and Energy Policy
Healthcare
- Human Health impact – severe heat, pollution, flooding risks, airborne / vector borne disease modeling
- Medical Geology
Information Technology
- Apple
- Microsoft
Reinsurance / Risk Analysis
- Hurricane Forecasting
- Seismic Hazards / Flood analysis
Useful links and organizations:
Earth science related job lists:
- ES_JOBS_NET: mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/es_jobs_net
- www.earthworks-jobs.com/academic.htm
- www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/search.cfm?JobCat=170
AGU Career Center: findajob.agu.org/
US Government job listings: www.usajobs.gov/
Science Outreach: mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/outreachjobannouncements
Climate, Environment, Risk Evaluation:
- CLIMLIST: climlist.wku.edu/
- Paleoclimlist: lists.colorado.edu/sympa/info/paleoclimate-list
- Isotope Geochemistry: ISOGEOCHEM@list.uvm.edu (https://isogeochem.wikispaces.com/)
- Terracon careers.terracon.com/
- Swiss RE careers.swissre.com/
Energy:
- DOE: www.energy.gov/eere/education/find-internships
- IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholarship Plus Initiative www.ee-scholarship.org/careers-in-power-energy/engineering-internships
Hydrology & Geomorphology:
- Critical Zone: critical zone exploration network CZEN.org
- Geomorphology— gilbertclub: To subscribe: gilbertclub/join
- Hydrology – CUAHSI: www.cuahsi.org/about/contact-usgroups.google.com/group/abouthydrology
Planetary Science:
Jacobs (NASA -JSC contractor): wehavespaceforyou.com/
Science Policy Fellowships:
- AGI: internships-and-fellowships
- AGI/Schlumberger: internships-and-fellowships/agi-schlumberger-fellows
- AGU: sciencepolicy.agu.org/congressional_fellows/
- AAAS (must have already defended/graduated): www.aaas.org/stpf/fellowship-areas
- Science and Technology Policy Institute: science-and-technology-policy-institute
Private Foundation/Industry Opportunities:
- Environmental Defense Fund (offices in Austin) www.edf.org/jobs
- Union of Concerned Scientists www.ucsusa.org/about/jobs
- Sierra Club: www.sierraclub.org/careers
- Reinsurance companies; SWISS RE www.swissre.com/careers/
Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities:
- LDEO Earth Institute (Columbia) (annually due ~ 10/30): postdoctoral-fellowship-earth-environmental-and-ocean-sciences
- Brown Institute for Environment and Society: institute-environment-society/research
- Carnegie Institution: postdoctoral-fellowships
- Rice Postdoctoral Fellowship: https://earthscience.rice.edu/home-page/open-positions/
- UTIG: https://www.ig.utexas.edu/
- NOAA Global Change Fellowships: noaa-climate-and-global-change-postdoctoral-fellowships
- Harvard: post-doctoral-associate-climate-dynamics
- Scripps: scripps.ucsd.edu/postdocs/program
- Marie Curie: mariecurieactions/actions/individual-fellowships_en
- Humboldt Fellowship: https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/humboldt-fellowship-postdoc.html
- University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship: http://ppfp.ucop.edu/info/
- Royal Society Newton International Fellowship: www.newtonfellowships.org/
- Royal Society University Research Fellowships: awards/grants/university-research/
- NERC Independent Research Fellowships: www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/available/fellowships/irf/
- Carolina Postdoc: research.unc.edu/DATA_RES_VCRED_POSTDOC
- Bateman Postdoctoral Fellowships at Yale (Geosciences): www.yale.edu/geology/jobopenings/postdocs.html
- Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program: www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm
- CIFAR Postdoc application due (Canada): www.cifar.ca/how-to-apply
- UT Austin JSG fellowship: jsg.utexas.edu/people/postdoctoral-fellows-program/
- Humbolt Postdoc application (Germany): humboldt-foundation.de/web/771.html
- Aguoron Postdoc: agi.org/grants-GBF.html
- Miller Institute, UC Berkley: millerinstitute.berkeley.edu/page.php?nav=11
- NSERC (Canada): nserc-crsng.gc.ca/students-etudiants/pd-np/pdf-bp_eng.asp
- Banting Fellowship: banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/home-accueil-eng.html
- NERC (UK): nerc.ac.uk/funding/application/information.asp
- NASA Astrobio Postdoc (USA): nasa.orau.org/postdoc/application/index.htm
- L’Oreal Women in Science fellowship (Must be done your PhD by application deadline.)
www.lorealusa.com/_en/_us/index.aspx?direct1=00008&direct2=00008/00001 - AAUW: www.aauw.org/what-we-do/educational-funding-and-awards/
Early Career Fellowships
Rice University Alumni network: