GeoSCOPE - Exploring Geoscience Career Opportunities

摘要GeoSCOPE-探索地球科学职业机会GeoSCOPE（地球科学职业机会探索）将在佛罗里达国际大学（FIU）的地球科学系（一个少数民族服务机构）和刚开始的FIU本科生、迈阿密-戴德社区大学生和迈阿密-戴德县高中教师之间建立长期的、自我维持的联系。该项目将通过研讨会和带薪实习，使早期职业的FIU和迈阿密-戴德社区学院的学生（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。它还将通过每年举办的讲习班，重点介绍当地地球科学机构、私营公司和金融情报大学部门研究的工作，向高中教师介绍地球科学职业机会。从FIU和迈阿密-戴德社区学院低年级科学和工程班招募的本科生将参加夏季研讨会，重点介绍系教师所做的有趣和专业有前途的研究领域。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，这些都是以技术为基础的。研讨会后，学生将受雇于带薪实习，无论是在部门和合作的地方机构，如美国地质调查局（USGS），迈阿密-戴德资源管理部（DERM）和南佛罗里达水管理区（SFWMD）。选择地球科学专业并完成随后一年课程的学生将获得第二次暑期实习，其中包括更强的研究部分。最终，这些学生预计将完全融入正在进行的资助地球科学教师的研究。

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.