geoscience careers

The Early Career Scientists group ‘Jobs and Careers’ is here to help all ECS!

ECS group: Jobs and Careers March 11, 2022

Credit: Antonio Jordán (from imaggeo.egu.eu)

Early Career Scientists (ECS) often face challenges when it comes to finding and pursuing their career path. Science offers a wide variety of options, so building a career in or around science can be quite daunting, with no clear single path to follow. While research is an obvious career choice for ECS, it can be conducted in a variety of different settings; from academic and governmental institut ...[Read More]

The EGU22 Mentoring Program could be just what your career needs

Solmaz Mohadjer March 2, 2022

Credit: Kai Boggild/EGU

The countdown to EGU22 has officially begun! If you are participating in the General Assembly this year and want to support and connect with other researchers in or outside of your field, we encourage you to sign up for the EGU22 Mentoring Program. The program matches experienced conference participants (mentors) with those who have not previously participated in a large geoscience conference (men ...[Read More]

Women in science: Inspiring and honest stories that call for support and change

Gillian D'Souza February 11, 2022

Credit: Sebastian Breitenbach (from imaggeo.egu.eu)

Sometimes, a simple story in a book or movie lights a spark and makes a young person curious about science. These young minds grow up dreaming to be mathematicians, scientists, doctors, engineers, technologists, and astronauts. But the road to being a woman or girl in science is rarely an easy one – even today in 2022! Despite the collective awareness of and push to break gender barriers and dispa ...[Read More]

Colour deficient vision and the geosciences; just another way of looking at things

Simon Jowitt September 18, 2020

Mineralogically complex drillcore from Australia (Photo by Simon Jowitt)

Like a reasonably large proportion of the population, I have colour vision deficiency (also known as colour deficient vision or colourblindness). I’m not going to get into the technical aspects of what this is like as they are covered well here and here, and you can do an Ishihara test, and other tests here, to check your own vision. The other reason I’m not going to discuss the technicalities of ...[Read More]