Earth and Planetary Science
EPS Near-Surface Geochemistry and Geobiology

Launching an EPS Career

One seminar each month, always 5 pm on a Friday
325 McCone
Bill Boos, Faculty Organizer

Date Speaker Affiliation
Fri, Sep 17, 2021 Percy Link EPS PhD 2015, currently a software engineer at Tesla, previously a data scientist and software engineer at AutoGrid
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, 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

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.