GeoSpectrum

Geoscience Currents #14 reports that the total federal funding of for geoscience research has leveled off since 2003, as have the proportions of funding for atmospheric science, geological science, and oceanography. Since the mid-1980’s however, the percentage of geoscience research funding applied to interdisciplinary geosciences has steadily increased. Read more in Geoscience Currents #14: Federal Research Funding of Geosciences.

Geoscience Currents #13 examines the geographic distribution of US geoscience departments as well as the base student to faculty ratio by state.

Geoscience Currents #12 examines the current age distribution of geoscience faculty in the United States by rank. As expected, the average age of a given faculty rank increases as the rank increases. Of note also is that the cross-over point of full professors and emeritus faculty is in the early 70s.

AGI’s workforce program’s Geoscience Currents #9 looks at gender in the geoscience faculty. Women make up only 14.2% of tenure-track faculty in U.S. geosciences departments compared to 28% in tenure-track positions in all science and engineering fields. This number has not changed significantly since 1973. Yet, women are increasingly earning their degrees, at all levels, in the geosciences.