Resources
Geoscience for the Public Good and Global Development: Toward a Sustainable Future
Abundant evidence of the importance of geology to sustainable global development can be found in the literature, and one good example is a 2016 Special Paper from the Geological Society of America. In this volume, papers from all over the world describe the importance of geology and geological engineering to human development, and also illustrate the difficulties people face when poverty and associated deficits hamper efforts to deal with dwindling water supplies, exhausted mineral and energy resources, and widespread pollution and contamination.
Critical Minerals Production and the Future of Mining
Ten GNGS members joined forces to present a paper at the GSA Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, and the GSA asked for it in print. Click here to read the result, published in the November GSA Today, and it’s getting a lot of interest!
A Resource for Licensing and Professional Certification of Geologists
GPI Director Will Ernst compiled this table of licensing/certification types for North America and some other countries. Students, and early career geoscientists, take note!
GPI Director Ellen Metzger recently published an article, “Reimagining Geoscience Education for Sustainability,” in the journal Earth Science, Systems and Society. Geoscience is crucial for addressing sustainability challenges related to climate change, the energy transition, water resources management, and natural hazards, but geoscience education has a long way to go to catch up. Read and download the article here: https://www.escubed.org/journals/earth-science-systems-and-society/articles/10.3389/esss.2024.10116/full