The Professional Women in Earth Sciences’ (PROWESS) third Diversity Seminar luncheon – an examination of the economics of diversity from a geoscience employment perspective – is set for New Orleans during the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition.
The results are in: AAPG’s PROWESS Work Force Retention Survey provides insights into today’s workplace climate and its support of women professionals.
Leading industry employers tell AAPG that although they recruit and hire the best geoscientists – and often at least half are women – they have problems retaining women geoscientists.
AAPG will sponsor this year’s Women’s Global Leadership Conference in Energy and Technology (WGLC) – a decision that came easily for all of us to make.
Dr. T and the Women (no, not the movie): AAPG President-Elect Scott Tinker, speaking in Bahrain, discusses the importance of attracting women to the geoscience work force -- and how to anticipate and overcome the challenges ahead.
Emily Oatney knew as a teenager – a feeling affirmed by a hike in the mountains – that she wanted a career as a geologist.
Minipermeameter gives field data and recognition for innovative technology to AAPG member Cynthia Dinwiddie.
Making the grade: A middle school earth sciences teacher from Parker, Colo., is this year’s AAPG Teacher of theYear.
This is not your father’s old career: The number of women geoscientists – and their impact – continues to grow and transform the industry in the 21st century.
As everyone is probably aware, the AAPG and DPA decided to jointly fund the establishment of an office in Washington, D.C. (GEO-DC). The office was launched in mid-November and Don Juckett, director for GEO-DC hit the ground running.
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