Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2015
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG243GW.1
Abstract
The geoscience workforce in the United States may be facing a critical shortage of trained personnel (Gonzalez and Keane, 2011; NRC, 2013; Mosher et al., 2014; Wilson, 2014a). The National Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 16% increase in geoscience jobs by 2022. If, as projected, more than half of the present geoscience workforce retires by that time (Wilson, 2014a, 2014b), up to 185,000 new geoscientists will be needed. Graduation rates in U.S. geoscience programs (Wilson, 2014a) are slowly increasing but still lack the capacity to produce such numbers by 2022 (Fig. 1A). The result is a projected shortfall of 135,000 trained geoscientists within the next decade (Wilson, 2014a, 2014b). To meet these growing challenges to our ability to research, assess, and utilize our natural resources in an environmentally responsible manner, we must increase the number of geoscience students.
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Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
GSA Today, v. 25, issue 12, p. 36-37
Scholar Commons Citation
Cramer, Bradley; Lewandowski, Katherine J.; Goldstein, Arthur; Asher, Pranoti; Ryan, Jeffrey G.; Schofield, David I.; and Buchanan, Rex, "Who will Build the 21st Century?: Addressing Critical Demographic Gaps in the Geosciences" (2015). School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications. 1131.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/geo_facpub/1131
Comments
Complete list of authors: Richard Denne, William I. Ausich, Thijs R.A. Vandenbroucke, Sherman Lundy, Tyler Priest, Ryan J. Clark