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Earth Planetary Sciences
Industry Areas
Here are examples of industry areas students enter with this major, jobs/internships, typical employers that hire students, skills employers look for, and examples of where alumni work. To find more information make an appointment with your career counselor/advisor.
Industry|Employers |
Job|Roles |
Skills |
Alumni |
Environmental Consulting • Retail companies |
Associate |
• Problem-Solving Skills |
• Ecocion Environmental Solutions, Consultant I |
Federal Government Agencies • Environmental Protection Agency |
• Scientist |
• Administrative |
• U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Staff Scientist • U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Supervisory Geophysicist |
Petroleum Companies • BP |
• oil and gas exploration • production • storage • waste disposal facilities |
• organizational |
• Chevron, Geophysicist |
State Government • Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability |
• Environmental Protection Specialist I • Human Resources Representative • Human Services Caseworker • Information Systems Analyst • Paralegal Assistant |
• Administrative |
• Town of Dedham, Conservation Agent |
Energy • Petroleum industry including:
• Coal industry including:
• Federal government agencies:
• State government |
• Stratigraphy |
• Quantitative |
• Gould Groundwater Investigations, Inc., Hydrogeologist • Energy Solutions Consortium, LLC, Project Director, Development |
Environmental Geology • Federal government agencies:
• State highway departments |
• Sedimentology |
• organizational |
• Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Senior Environmental Specialist |
Geologic Mapping Federal government agencies: • US Geological Survey |
• Structural Geology |
• organizational |
• Chevron, Technical Geophysicist |
Hazards • Federal government agencies:
• Private research groups and foundations |
• Engineering Geology |
• organizational |
• Natural Resource Technology, Inc., Environmental Engineer I |
Minerals • Geological exploration firms
• Railroad companies |
• Mining |
• organizational |
• GLC Minerals, President & COO |
Planetary Sciences Federal government agencies: • National Labs |
• Remote Sensing |
• organizational |
NA |
Education • Elementary/secondary public or private schools |
• Teaching Research |
K-12: • Coordination Higher Ed: • Research |
• Arizona State University, Associate Professor of Life Sciences |
Popular Industries (According to LinkedIn)
- Research
- Education
- Community and Social Services
- Media and Communication
Professional Associations
- American Geological Institute Careers in Geosciences
- Geological Society of America
- Association for Women Geoscientists Profiles
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists
- American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG)
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists (AEG)
- American Water Resources Association (AWRA)
- Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)
- Society of Economic Geologists (SEG)
- Mineralogical Society of America (MSA)
- Society of Exploration Geophysicists
- The Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME)