Earth and Planetary Science
EPS Atmosphere, Oceans, and Climate

Launching an EPS Career

12:00 pm Mondays, 365 McCone
Bill Boos, Faculty Organizer

Date Speaker Affiliation
Mon, Mar 6, 2023 Cal OES California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services: Todd Becker and two other staff will discuss careers in earthquake, tsunami, and climate hazards.
Mon, Feb 6, 2023 Bridget Floyd PG, Environmental Design Section Chief, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District. Bridget will discuss careers in environmental geophysics and geology, and will give more general advice on the federal government’s hiring process.
Fri, Apr 8, 2022 Jonathan Price Geology (EPS) PhD 1977, President Elect of the American Geosciences Institute (AGI); diverse career from industry, research, teaching, state geological surveys, and consulting; State Geologist for NV for 23 yrs; developing Geosciences for Sustainability
Fri, Mar 11, 2022 Grace Pehl EPS PhD 2005; data scientist, mother of six, and former CSA owner will talk about her career path from mineral physics to big data.
Fri, Feb 11, 2022 Özgür Kozacı With Jenny Taing (EPS BA '13) and Ryan Caspary (EPS BA '19, MA '20) all from InfraTerra, a small firm in San Francisco that specializes in integrating geologic and seismic hazard evaluation with solutions for critical water and energy systems.
Fri, Jan 28, 2022 Paul Henshaw EPS BA in Geology 1969, Oceanography PhD (U. Washington); energy industry professional with decades of experience at Chevron, the US Navy, and multiple educational institutions
Fri, Nov 5, 2021 Jake Edman EPS PhD 2017, Director of Machine Learning at KoBold Metals, a mineral exploration company focused on the electric vehicle supply chain
Fri, Oct 15, 2021 Marianne Stam EPS Bachelor’s degree 1980, forensic scientist, working with California State crime lab, Secretary of International Forensic Geology group
Fri, Sep 17, 2021 Percy Link EPS PhD 2015, currently a software engineer at Tesla, previously a data scientist and software engineer at AutoGrid

Launching an EPS Career:
Alumni from EPS will come and talk with current students and postdocs about career paths. Seminars will focus on all types of careers that can be pursued with a degree in Earth and Planetary Science. This includes traditional science careers, jobs at large corporations and small startups in the earth and environmental sciences, careers in tech and finance that leverage the quantitative background of EPS graduates, and creative and unusual career paths. We will have speakers from all career stages — recent graduates to retirees — and will include alumni who can advise undergraduate as well as graduate students.

If you are trying to figure out how to turn an EPS degree into a fulfilling and financially viable lifelong career, this seminar is for you. If you don’t have family members or friends who can mentor you into the sort of career you want, come and meet people who can. And if you are just curious about Earth and Planetary Science but don’t know what it is about, come and hear about a wide range of EPS careers that are changing the world.