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DEPARTMENT CHAIR:
Kyle Nichols
Geosciences Associate Professor
Office Location:
Dana 174

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT:
Carol Goody
Office Location:
Dana 172

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Geology Links -

Skidmore:

    * GIS
    * Library

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