Profiles of Geoscientists
Employment in the geosciences may best be summarized by the types of employers.
The major employer categories represent nearly all working geoscientists, and
it is a certainty that you will spend some part of your geoscience career in
one of these major employment sectors:
The
Oil and Gas Industry
Hydro/Environmental/Engineering Geology
Federal Government
State Geological Surveys
Mining and Mineral Industry
Department of Energy National Laboratories
Academia
To provide you with an understanding and appreciation of the varied career
pathways available in the geosciences, brief biographies of distinguished geoscience
professionals are provided. Some of those profiled have written essays
about working in the geosciences.
The Oil and Gas
Industry
Petroleum Geologists
James A. Gibbs
- Five States Energy Company, Dallas, TX
Robert K. Merrill - UNOCAL Corporation, Sugar
Land, TX
Elijah White, Jr.
- Exxon Exploration Company, Houston, TX
Energy and Environmental Policy
Jeff Eppink - ICF Kaiser Consulting Group,
Washington, DC
Geological Engineer
Craig C. Kemp - Altura Energy Ltd., Houston,
TX
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Hydro/Environmental/Engineering
Geology
Environmental Geologist
Jessica Donovan - ENVIRON, Emeryville, CA
Hydrogeologists
Philip E. LaMoreaux - LaMoreaux and Associates,
Tuscaloosa, AL
Russell G. Slayback - Leggette, Brashears &
Graham, Inc., Trumbull, CT
David A. Stephenson - South Pass Resources,
Inc., Scottsdale, AZ
Engineering Geologists
Eldon Gath - Earth Consultants International, Orange,
CA
Richard E. Gray - GAI Consultants Inc., Monroeville,
PA
Geochemist
Brent R. Constantz - Norian Corporation, Cuptertino,
CA
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Federal
Government
Hydrologists
Charles E. Brown - U.S. Geological Survey, Reston,
VA
Leonard F. Konikow - U.S. Geological Survey, Reston,
VA
Susan F. Zevin - National Weather Service, Silver
Spring, MD
Hydrogeologist
P. Patrick Leahy - U.S. Geological Survey, Reston,
VA
Geochemist
Dallas L. Peck - U.S. Geological Survey, Reston,
VA
Marine Geologist
Bonnie A. McGregor - U.S. Geological Survey, Reston,
VA
Palynologist
Norman Frederiksen - U.S. Geological Survey, Reston,
VA
Paleontologist
J. Thomas Dutro, Jr. - U.S. Geological Survey,
Washington, DC
Geophysicist
Mary Lou Zoback - U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo
Park, CA
Space Physicist
Richard E. Young - NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett
Field, CA
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State Geological
Surveys
Geophysicist
Vicki Cowart - Colorado Geological Survey, Denver,
CO
Petroleum Geologist
William L. Fisher - University of Texas, Austin,
TX
Economic Geologist
Jonathan G. Price - Nevada Bureau of Mines &
Geology, Reno, NV
Geologist
Walter Schmidt - Florida Geological Survey, Tallahassee,
FL
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Mining
and Mineral Industry
Exploration Geologist
Paul A. Bailly - Castle Group, Inc., Denver, CO
Geochemist
Odin D. Christensen - Newmont Mining Corporation,
Denver, CO
Department of Energy
National Laboratories
Geologists
Carl W. Myers - Los Alamos National Laboratories,
Los Alamos, NM
Stephen H. Stow - Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Oak Ridge, TN
Peter S. Fiske - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Livermore, CA
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Academia
Geologist
Louis A. Fernandez - California State University,
San Bernadino, CA
Micropaleontologist
Constance Sancetta - National Science Foundation,
Arlington, VA
Geophysicist
James V. Taranik - Desert Research Institute, Las
Vegas, NV
Engineering Geologist
John W. Williams - San Jose State University, San
Jose, CA
Earth Science Teacher
Linda Knight - Houston Independent School District,
Houston, TX
Oceanographer
Richard W. Spinrad - Consortium for Oceanographic
Research and Education, Washington, DC
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