ACCESS Student Recruitment Call

ACCESS a new national community of students and supervisors, all working in different scientific fields in our unique and globally recognised natural laboratory for the study of Earth Systems. ACCESS is recruiting post-graduate students (honours, masters and doctoral) from several disciplines of natural and physical science to join its exciting initiative!
ACCESS is a multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary programme, partnering with various South African universities and key research agencies. As an NRF Centre of Excellence, ACCESS, together with its partners, aims to deliver a new scale of intervention in Earth Systems Science in southern Africa within the scope of the Department of Science and Technology’s Global Change Grand Challenge.
- Eligibility criteria:
Applicants who have a research interest within or related to one of the following disciplines are invited to apply:
• Earth Systems Modelling and Biochemical Cycles
• Seasonal/Inter-annual Climate Predictability
• Water Resources Dynamics
• Urban and Rural Land Cover and Land Use
• Ecosystem Services and Livelihoods
• Long-term Climate and Impacts
• Marine and Coastal, Estuarine Systems.


- Application deadline
All applications for 2012 must be submitted for consideration before 28 November 2011


For more information, download the brochure of the call.

Urgent: Exclusive YES Meeting tonight moderated from Morocco!

Join us today in an exclusive online YES meeting moderated from EL Jadida, Morocco where the First International Conference on African and Arabian Geoparcs is taking place!
YES members present on site will report the conference progress and the YES activities planned on site.
Make sure to add "yes.morocco" to your skype list so that we can will add you to the conversation.
The meeting will start at 10pm GMT.
We're looking forward to have many YES members participating, we need your ideas to make the YES presence in the conference a success!

Learning Geology in 3D - Visible Geology online!

Last year I saw a poster that Rowan Cockett from University of Calgary presented about his educational structural geology software that he developed at the AGU 2010 Fall Meeting (See the blogpost here).

Rowan has just finished putting the bulk of the software on the web and is looking for feedback from the geoscience community on this software so he can tune it and refine it. The software is free, and you can give it a test drive at: http://visible-geology.appspot.com/

You can contact Rowan through the website from the homepage by clicking on the button that says "Contact".

European Geoscience Union General Assembly 2012: Call for Abstracts on Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Geosciences

YES Network members are call to submit their abtract (s) for the upcoming European Geoscience Union General Assembly that will take place in Vienna, Austria from the 22-27 April 2012. One of the session during this conference is TS4.5 Geodynamics of Collisional type orogenic belts and its response to climate and erosional process-Himalaya, Karakoram and Tibet. For more information about the above session  please contact Dr. Soumyajit Mukherjee at soumyajitm@gmail.com  and also follow this link http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2012/home.html .

Important dates
Abstract submission  deadline 17 January 2012, 24:00 CET
Financial support  deadline 15 December 2011, 24:00 CET

GSA Careers Networking Luncheon - A HUGE Success!

The YES Network co-organized the Geoscience Careers Networking Luncheon with the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) and the Geological Society of America (GSA) at the GSA 2011 meeting. Thank you to AGI, GSA and ConocoPhillips for their generous contributions to the event.

We had a total of 241 students (56% Bachelor's, 23% Master's, 19% Doctorates). Five of these students were in high school. Students were from 110 different universities with 24 of those universities outside of the US (19- Canada, 2- Turkey, 1-Nigeria, 1-Australia, and 1-Argentina).

Students networked with 47 US and non-US based geoscience professionals from the following sectors:
Oil & Gas
Minerals exploration
Environmental consulting
Media
Federal Government
State Government
Non-profit
Scientific Instrumentation

Students chatted with professionals and landed job interviews, internships, and found out about a variety of jobs in different business sectors outside of academia. Overall the response from students and geoscience professionals was overwhelmingly positive!

If you were at the luncheon today, please tell us what you thought!

Back to School

Cross-posted on GeoSelim here

In response of Anne Jefferson questions for Accretionary Wedge #38:

If you are a current or future student… what do you want to know about life and careers in the geosciences? Are there things you aren’t getting to learn or do in classes that you think are important? What sort of experiences do you want to get out of school and how do you think school can or should help you prepare for a career?

My respond here focus on the method of studying geology. It’s helpful to study how particular branch of geoscience are developed, like how continental drift theory are become the most accepted theory, but it’s not necessary to study how seismic investigation are developed thorough the time. Students need to know how to interpret a seismic section; not to know who developed that branch of science so the large introductions of any subject in collage is like wasting the time. How is this branch of science work? why it useful? and how can i use it? that what i think is  important in studying any subject. Geoscience professors should focus on hand on experience not the amount of information that students will use it after the graduation. Actually geologists are a storyteller about Earth history. Don’t tell your student the story, teach them how to tell a good story.

Award Committee Volunteers Wanted

The YES 2012 coordinators are seeking YES members to form a committee to select outstanding public figures to receive an award for his/her impacts on the connection between geosciences and societal issue. 

The recipient will be awarded this honor at the YES World Congress in Brisbane. This is a short term position, and members of the committee will need to act quickly to formulate nominees for the award. 

Tasks include: nominating one person from each continent; producing a short bio on each nominee (photo and text); contacting the nominee to inform him/her of their nomination; communicating with the Executive team regarding nominations. The bio will be used in a special edition of the Newsletter to showcase each public figure and published online for YES members to review and vote. 

Please contact soumyajitm@gmail.com to volunteer or for more information.