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Education & Public Outreach ContactCareers in Science
Whether you’re looking to find candidates for your organization's open positions or to land a job in geophysics, AGU's Career Center can help! The Career Center operates at Fall Meeting. For information on how you or your organization can get involved, contact careers@agu.org.
2010 AGU Fall Meeting Career Fair now live
The 2010 AGU Fall Meeting Career Fair is now live. Post your resume and browse the best jobs in the Earth and space sciences. If you are planning to attend the Fall Meeting, remember to click the Register Now link on the screen titled My Account so that the recruiters and employers who will be interviewing during the meeting know that you'll be available. You can set times when you're not available using the Calendar function.
Webinar on geoscientists in the financial sector
Thursday, 14 October 2010 from 1300h–1400h EST
Join a webinar to learn about how geoscientists can find careers in the financial sector. Learn how the speakers made the switch from rocks to stocks!
Good news!
From 2008 to 2009 salaries in the geosciences increased by 3.1% which is 1 percent more than for occupations in other sciences. Read more in AGI's latest workforce bulletin.
Earth and Space Science Workforce Research
The American Geological Institute's Workforce Program has issued information about women's participation in geoscience occupations. Though more women are getting geoscience degrees, women's presence in the geoscience workforce isn't catching up. As this bulletin states, "the percentage of women in environmental science and geoscience occupations has not exceeded 30 percent since 2003." Read the bulletin for more data and comparison graphs 
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Following on from its report on women's participation in Earth and space sciences, AGI's workforce program has issued a bulletin on underrepresented minorities in the Earth and space science occupations.
Surveys of Recent Ph.D. Graduates
AGU regularly collaborates with American Geological Institute (AGI) to produce studies documenting employment patterns and demographic characteristics of recent PhDs.
Surveys of Recent Masters Graduates
AGU and AGI expanded the survey of the class of 2006 to include data about masters recipients.
Earth and Space Science Careers
Want help writing a resume that is right on target? Need help getting started? We have a short guide, written by Lawrence Livermore scientist Peter S. Fiske, to help you write and organize your resume.
For more career assistance from Peter Fiske, consider purchasing “Put Your Science to Work: The Take-Charge Career Guide for Scientists” from AGU Books. Whether are you are a science undergraduate or graduate student, post-doc or senior scientist, you need practical career development advice, this book can help you explore all your options and develop dynamite strategies for landing the job of your dreams.
Interested in getting a degree in the Earth and space sciences? Learn about what geoscientists do.
Ph.D. Granting Institutions
Where can I get a degree in Oceanography? Seismology?
See our list of Ph.D.-granting Institutions and their URLs for answers.
Using Your Ph.D. Wisely
A number of Earth and space scientists have used their degrees in geophysics to follow non-traditional paths. What options do you have for your career? How can you get started? Here are comments from scientists who want to share their experiences following these paths in their careers.
- Academic Administrator: Randy Richardson
- Popular Fiction Writer: Sarah Andrews
- Public Policy: David Applegate
- Mineral exploration/Research and technical editor: Maeve Boland
- Researcher at National Lab: Peter Fiske
- Science Journalist: Dick Kerr
- State Geologist, Vicki Cowart