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Thanks to Emily, here’s an update on all the exciting new opportunities for geology students!
Check the board outside Carl's office for more info.

 

Internship Opportunities:

Like science? Like to write? Like $3,500 for the summer? Then apply for this internship. The job includes writing for the News Notes section and other parts of the magazine, writing Web Extras, attending press briefings and science seminars in Washington, D.C., and helping to edit and produce the magazine. The internship is 12 weeks long with a flexible start date. Applications are due by March 12, 2004. Learn more at www.geotimes.org, or, you guessed it, in the hallway.

Undergraduate Research at Stony Brook University. This is a totally cool ten-week program that pays you to do research in any Earth Science discipline, or for the Center for Environmental Molecular Science (CEMS). Eligibility requirements: undergraduate majoring in any of the physical sciences, and 60 academic credits completed (I think this is about 15 Beloit credits, so you have to have finished sophomore year). You get a $3,500 stipend, a travel allowance of $600, and free campus housing. Apply by March 31, 2004. Print an application off the web at www.mpi.stonybrook.edu/SummerScholars/ for physical sciences, or www.cems.stonybrook.edu for CEMS.

Take a summer course in Maine, undoubtedly the best state in the Union. “The Shoals Marine Laboratory offers a diversity of undergraduate courses ranging from introductory to advanced. Financial assistance is available for all SML students.” See the poster in the hallway, or go to www.sml.cornell.edu.

Field Camps:

In case you mistakenly think that Beloit’s field camp is not the best in the country, here are some other options for you this summer. See the posters in the hall.

The University of Montana's Field School in Western Montana, May 17 - June 15, 2004. Tuition and fees: $3800. Six credits. www2.umt.edu/geology/summerfieldcrs.htm

Southern Utah University's Introduction to Geological Field Methods: for students with little or no field experience, designed to give students a background in field geology. This might be a good one if you are not a major and just want to get some field experience. June 14 - 25, 2004. Cedar City, Utah. Tuition: $550. Fees: $55. Housing: $112. Food not included. Three credits. Geology Field Course: this is similar to Beloit’s course, but requires previous experience with basic field techniques, such as mapping and Brunton compass skills. June 28 - July 30, 2004. Cedar City, Utah. Tuition: $1,100. Fees: $55. Housing: $262.50 for a double, or $350 for a single. Food not included. www.suu.edu/sci/physci/fieldcamp/index.html

The University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh's Field School in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah. June 4 - July 18, 2004. Tuition: WI residents: $1380, Out-of-state: $1480. Food not included. Six credits. www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/paulsen/FC_02.htm.

Albion College's Field School in Wyoming. June 6 - July 19, 2004. Tuition: $2,750, all-inclusive. Two units. Eight semester hours. www.albion.edu/geology/fieldcamp.htm.

University of Nevada at Reno's Field School in Eastern Nevada. June 1 - July 11, 2004. Tuition: $2495, all-inclusive. Six semester credits.
www.mines.unr.edu/fieldcamp/.

The University of Newcastle, Australia - Field School in Australia! June 15 - July 30, 2004. www.newcastle.edu.au/discipline/geology/.

Graduate Schools:

The College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. If you are interested in the ocean or the atmosphere, this is the school for you. They have programs in biological, chemical, geological, physical, and interdisciplinary oceanography, as well as atmospheric sciences, geophysics, and marine resource management. Visit their website at www.coas.oregonstate.edu, or check out the poster in the hallway.

Western Kentucky University. This is a good place for environmental and soft rock geologists. They offer MS degrees in GIS, climatology, meteorology, hydrology, geomorphology, sedimentology, environmental geology, city and regional planning, sustainable development, and regional studies. Check out their website at www.wku.edu/geoweb, or see the poster in the hallway.

New Mexico Tech. NMT offers MS and Ph.D. degrees in geology and geochemistry, and stipends ranging from $13,000 to $35,000 a year. That’s a lot of money. Check them out at www.nmt.edu, or see the poster in the hallway.

The University of Montana. Montana offers MS and Ph.D. degrees in pretty much any field of geology you could ever want to go into. It’s located in Missoula, which is in the Rocky Mountains. Who wouldn’t want to live there? They appear to have every piece of analytical equipment ever invented, including a Nuclide luminoscope, whatever that is. Read all about it on the poster in the hallway, or at www.umt.edu.

Vanderbilt University has a small graduate program that offers MS degrees in fluvial geomorphology, paleoecology, oceanography, tectonics, and geochemistry, and a Ph.D. in environmental science. Stipends range from $12,000 to $16,000 a year, with an additional $1,500 to $5,000 for summer research. Visit them online at http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/geology, or, once again, look at the poster in the hallway.

Fellowship Opportunities:

The University of Texas at Austin Exploration Geophysics Graduate Fellowship. This one-year fellowship for graduate students at UT Austin includes a stipend of $20,000 plus $2,000 for travel to professional meetings and research expenses. If you ever wanted to be a petroleum geologist, here is your opportunity. “Exploration geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin is focused on teaching and research in the acquisition and analysis of 3-D reflection seismic techniques to search for and develop oil and gas resources.” Jump on this great opportunity to exploit, I mean explore, our fragile planet’s precious resources. Contact Dr. Robert H. Tatham at tatham@mail.utexas.edu, or 512-471-9129. Learn more about UT Austin at www.geo.utexas.edu.

Professional Meetings:

The 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Institute on Lake Superior Geology (ILSG) occurs May 4-9, 2004, in Duluth, Minnesota. “This conference focuses on the Precambrian and Quaternary geology of the Lake Superior region and will cover a wide variety of topics and field trips of interest to those in mineral exploration, the environmental field, government, and academia.” The meeting offers some pretty cool field trips, such as “Volcanic stratigraphy, hydrothermal alteration, and VMS potential of the lower Ely Greenstone, Fivemile to Sixmile Lake area,” “Late Wisconsinian Superior-lobe deposits in the Superior Basin northeast of Duluth” (yay geomorphology), and “Glacial and postglacial landscape evolution in the Glacial Lake Aitkin and Upham basin, northern Minnesota.” See the poster in the hallway, or check it out on the web at www.ilsg2004.org.

The Nature of Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains symposium takes place June 3-5, 2004, and focuses on the scientific studies and naturalistic observations of the Lewis and Clark expedition as it crossed the Great Plains 200 years ago. It takes place on the Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City, Nebraska. Topics include botany, climatology, geology, hydrology, ornithology, and zoology. The conference costs $150 and is limited to the first 220 people who register, so act now. For more information, visit their website at www.unl.edu/plains/events/2004.

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