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Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
DEPARTMENT CHAIR:
Kyle Nichols
Geosciences Associate Professor
Office Location:
Dana 174
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT:
Carol Goody
Office Location:
Dana 172

Geology Links -
Skidmore:
Geosciences Information:
* USGS
* USGS Earthquake Center
* Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
* Museum of Paleontology
* NASA
* NOAA
* The Lunar and Planetary Institute
* GEOREF (for use from Skidmore computers)
* ScienceDirect (for use from Skidmore computers)
Professional Organizations:
* American Geophysical Union
* Geological Society of America
* Association for Women Geoscientists
* Mineralogical Society of America
* Paleontological Society
* Society for Sedimentary Geology
* Hudson Mohawk Professional Geologists' Association
* American Quaternary Association
Job Searches:
* Earthworks
* Environmental Jobs and Careers
* Geoscience Information Center
* American Water Resource Association
* USGS OARS
* GIS Jobs
* Oil Directory
Graduate Programs: (There are many! These are just a few...)
* Colorado School of Mines
* University of Hawaii at Manoa
* Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
* Harvard University
* University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
* University at Buffalo
* University of Washington
* Cornell University
* Princeton University
* Yale University
* Columbia University
* Arizona State University
* University of Arizona
* Brown University
Scholarships and Grants:
* General GSA Page for Undergrad Resources
* AIPG Scholarship Program
* NOAA Undergrad Scholarship Program
* Scholarship Search Engine
* GSA Student Research Grants
* GSA Student Travel Grants (particularly for women and minorities)
* Summer Work - GeoCorps
* Congressional Science Fellowship
* Women in Geology Mentor Program
* AGU Student Grants
Summer Research Opportunities:
* GeoCorps
* NASA's Planetary Geology and Geophysics Undergraduate Research Program
* The National Science Foundation's list of REU opportunities
* American Museum of Natural History
* Carnegie Institute of Washington Summer Scholars Program
* Eastern Kentucky Environmental Research Institute
* IRIS Seismology Program
* Montclair State University
* Keck Geology Consortium
* Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
* SUNY New Paltz - Watershed Analysis
* Texas A&M - Costa Rica Cloud Forest
* Biosphere 2
* Towson University - Urban Environmental Biogeochemistry
* University of Akron - Bahamian Lakes
* UC Irvine - Biogeochemistry and Climate Change
* University of Florida - Water Resources
* University of Minnesota - Geophysics
* Southern California Earthquake Center
* University of Texas at Arlington - The Big Muddy Expedition (Fluvial Processes)
* University of Texas at Austin - Global Change and its Impacts
* University of Wisconsin - Dune Geomorphology and Geochronology
* Western Kentucky - Mammoth Cave Project
* National Laboratories Research Assistantships
Just for fun:
* Earth as art (Earth Resources Observation and Science Center)
Skidmore Geoscience in the News:
* Student and alumni profiles
o Geneva Kraus ('11)
o Laura Taylor ('83)
o Matt Shrensel ('09)
o Neal Grasso ('96)
o Andrew Joy ('89)
o Cynthia Carroll ('78)
* Skidmore Geoscience seismograph picks up March 2011 Japan earthquake
o News Channel 13
o Post Star