Geology Newsletter Fall 2003, Volume 4

Volume 4, Fall 2003 (Nov. 14)

Signing in, your faithful geology correspondent Kristine. I am sad to announce that I won't be with you much longer, until the end of this semester, in fact, and I am sure you will miss my witty newsletters as much as I will miss writing them

Summer Internships:

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is offering a research training program which runs from May 29 through August 7 (My dad's birthday!) You will engage in studies on the formation and evolution of the Earth and similar planets; discovery and understanding of life's diversity; and the study of human diversity and cultural change. It will be held in the museum in Washington DC and the application deadline is 1 February 2004. Good luck and have fun! For more information, if you're too lazy to go look at the geology board, look at http://www.nmnh.si.edu/rtp/ from the comfort (or discomfort) of your own chair.

Field Schools:

Southern Oregon University is offering a field course in Southern Oregon and Northern California. The course costs differ according to what all you need, the prerequisites are two years of geology courses and strongly recommended courses include mineralogy, lithology, structural geology, stratigraphy, and hydrogeology. It is a 33 day summer field course in field geology and hydrogeology and is worth 9 quarter credits (whatever that is in units) and includes a landslide project.

The Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes is offering a field Methods course in beautiful sunny Hawaii at Hilo. You will study volcanoes. There is a cool picture of a guy with a hammer sticking it into still hot lava. If you're a pyro, this is perfect for you! The deadline is March 1, 2004, so get going on it already!

Miami University is offering a summer course funning from June 5- July 9, 2004. You will learn the essentials of field geology, and get to camp in the Northern Rockies. So if you're sick and tired of all this warm weather all the time, go there for the summer so you can be cold 9 months out of the year instead of only 7! For more information look at www.muohio.edu.fieldgeology/

Graduate Schools:

Woohoo, there's one new one of these. Indiana State University invites you to apply to their graduate program where you can research things such as environmental geology, stratigraphy/Sedimentology, paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, geochemistry and a whole bunch more. I encourage you to check out their website. At least look at the name. It's interesting. What's the deal with the baby part? I don't know. Oh well. http://baby.indstate.edu/geo/geoindex.html or go to the geology bulletin board! Sheesh, I feel like that's my motto or something. The geology board holds the answers to all your questions. Remember that, and you're set for life.

Graduate Fellowships:

The Vincent C Kelley and Leon T Silver Graduate Fellowship are now available through the department of earth and planetary sciences in the University of New Mexico. They are offering $1,625 dollars per month for 12 months, health coverage, and up to $3000 for the year for travel and research expenses. The award is for two years for a Masters student and three years for a PhD student. Check out the application for this at http://www.unm.edu/grad, and good luck!

Job Opportunities:

Lecturer/department of geological sciences/ Arizona State University. They are looking for a full-time, non-tenure-track lecturer. The job would involve teaching and coordinating introductory courses and laboratories during the academic year, developing curriculum, and coordinating outreach efforts. The desired start date is 15 August 2004. The deadline is over, it was December 1, 2003, but if the position isn't filled, it's every two weeks thereafter, so good luck! [but you'll need a Ph.D.]

Arizona State University is also looking for a tenure track position filler at the assistant professor level to join and contribute to a rapidly growing research program in Earth and Planetary interiors. Some experience is required. The desired start date is 16 August 2004, and the deadline for application is 16 December 2003, so you've got some time yet for this one. [and you'll need your Ph.D.]

Reading Materials in the Seminar Room:

Hah! Speaking of Volcanoes, the Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network Volume 28, Number 9 2003 is now available in the seminar room! [edited by Ed Venzke, Beloit grad.] So go drink your lovely coffee or have a spot of tea and brush up on your Volcanism.

Thank you for being such a captivating reading audience this semester, your support is appreciated and the lack of fan mail is kind of depressing, but, then again, the life of a star is hard, so I'm somewhat grateful for this humbling experience (lack of fan mail). Have great spring semesters everyone! This is me, signing out.

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