GeoSCOPE - Exploring Geoscience Career Opportunities

GeoSCOPE-探索地球科学职业机会GeoSCOPE(地球科学职业机会探索)将在少数族裔服务机构佛罗里达国际大学(FIU)地球科学系与FIU本科生、迈阿密-戴德社区大学学生和迈阿密-戴德县高中教师之间建立长期、自我维持的联系。该项目将通过研讨会和带薪实习使职业生涯早期的FIU和迈阿密-戴德社区大学的学生--其中70%以上来自地球科学代表性不足的群体--获得地球科学职业机会。它还将通过一年一度的讲习班向高中教师介绍地球科学的职业机会，突出当地地球科学机构、私营公司和FIU部门研究的工作。从FIU和迈阿密-戴德社区学院低级科学和工程班招收的本科生将参加暑期工作坊，突出系教员所做的有趣和专业前景广阔的研究领域。例如：1)南佛罗里达应用水文地质学；2)佛罗里达群岛环境地质学；3)南佛罗里达和加勒比海地质学，所有这些都有重要的实地组成部分；4)地理信息系统在地球科学中的应用；5)矿物地球科学，以技术为基础。研讨会结束后，学生将在部门内和合作的当地机构，如美国地质调查局(USGS)、迈阿密-戴德资源管理部(DERM)和南佛罗里达州水资源管理区(SFWMD)内受雇于带薪实习。选择地球科学专业，并在接下来的一年完成课程学习的学生，将获得第二个暑期实习机会，其中研究部分更强。最终，这些学生有望完全融入正在进行的由地球科学学院资助的研究中。

ABSTRACTGeoSCOPE - Exploring Geoscience Career OpportunitiesGeoSCOPE (GeoScience Career OPportunity Exploration) will build long-term, self-sustaining linkages between the Department of Earth Sciences at Florida International University (FIU), a Minority Serving Institution, and beginning FIU undergraduates, Miami-Dade community college students, and Miami-Dade County high school teachers. The project will expose early career FIU and Miami-Dade community college students, over 70% of whom are from groups under-represented in the geosciences, to geoscience career opportunities, through workshops and paid internships. It will also inform high school teachers about geoscience career opportunities, through a yearly workshop highlighting the work of local geoscience agencies, private firms and departmental research at FIU. Undergraduate students, recruited from lower division science and engineering classes at FIU and at Miami-Dade Community College will participate in summer workshops highlighting interesting and professionally promising areas of research done by department faculty. Examples are: 1) Applied Hydrogeology in South Florida; 2) Environmental Geology of the Florida Keys; and 3) Geology of South Florida and the Caribbean, all of which have a significant field component; and 4) Applications of GIS in the Geosciences and 5) Mineral Geoscience, which are technology based. Following the workshops, students will be employed in paid internships, both within the department and cooperating local agencies, such as the United States Geologic Survey (USGS), Miami-Dade Department of Resource Management (DERM) and the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). Students who choose a geoscience major, and complete one subsequent year of coursework, will receive a second summer internship with a stronger research component. Ultimately, such students are expected to become fully integrated into on-going funded Earth Science faculty research.