Who wants to be a geophysicist?

2024/09/30 by Jerry Jenkins, Amy Gilligan, Lidong Bie · 2 voices
Computer Science · #Seismology and Earthquake Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/astrogeo/atae056

Abstract

Abstract Why aren't students signing up to study geophysics? Are they unaware of how in-demand it is? Or are they just too cool for geophysics school?

Citations

• “you just look at rocks, and have beards” Perceptions of Geology From the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Analysis From an Online Survey

Discussions

• I don’t have a proper geology beard and I am not very good at looking at rocks (though maybe on a screen it’s not so threatening) but I am a geophysicist and it’s worrying to be a species in decline a [bsky, 36 points, 6 comments]
• The "&c &c" here includes geophysicists. Industry wants 2--3 times as many as UK universities produce ( doi.org/10.1093/astr... ) . I train some of them. I see them go into good, useful jobs. #Edinbur [bsky, 6 points, 0 comments]

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