Career Opportunities

Our graduates are finding themselves in a wide array of jobs and careers. You can find our graduates at:

• NASA (California)
• The Do Run Company (St. Louis)
• Elko (Nevada)
• SMR Environmental (Owensboro, KY)
• Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet (Frankfort, KY)
• Nyrstar (Lebanon, TN)

AGI Geoscience Career Brochure

GEOSCIENCE CAREER RESOURCES

• Graduate schools with funding
• Geocareers
• AAPG Career Center
• AGU Pathfinder
• Geology related jobs at Army Corps of Engineers
• Geology job info at Earthworks
• Energy related job info
• Environmental Career Opportunities (ECO)
• U.S. National Park Service
• USGS - United States Geological Survey
• Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet

INTERNSHIPS & REUs

• National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates
• National Park Service
• NSF REUs - Earth Sciences
• United States Geological Survey
• NASA
• NASA Summer Undergraduate Program
• USGS Summer Internship

NATIONAL, REGIONAL, AND LOCAL CONFERENCES
To consider presenting your research

• American Association of Petrolum Geologist Annual Convention and Exhibition
• American Association of Petrolum Geologist Student Expo
• American Geophysical Union Annual Fall Meeting
• Geological Society of America Annual Conference
• Geological Society of America Regional Conference
• Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Annual Convention
• Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting
• SEPM International Sedimentary Geosciences Congress
• Western Kentucky University Student Research Conference

ORGANIZATIONS FOR GEOSCIENCE

• AAPG - American Association of Petrolum Geologist
• AGI – American Geological Institute
• AGU - American Geophysical Union
• AWG - Association for Women Geoscientists
• GSA – Geological Society of America
• KAS - Kentucky Academy of Science
• MSA – Mineralogical Society of America
• NAGT – National Association of Geoscience Teachers
• SEPM – Society of Sedimentary Geology