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What career will I have?
If you study earth science, you could be employed in all sorts of jobs.
As well as working with someone like Shane Cronin, there are jobs like scientists in the petroleum and petrochemical industries, in mining, resource management, hazards research, land rehabilitation and engineering geology. Those graduates in research positions have specialised in geochemistry, paleomagnetism (the Earth’s past magnetic fluctuations), palynology (fossil pollen), volcanology, phytoremediation (using plants to remove pollutants from soils), soil pollution and groundwater.
In New Zealand Massey University earth science graduates have gone on to be employed in various Crown Research Institutes, by regional councils (land and water resources), as secondary school teachers, in universities, as consultants, and varied positions in industry, all around the world.
Volcanology
If you want to go directly into volcanology, you’ll need to do postgraduate study in a relevant topic. You can get on-the-lava experience at the same time – Volcanic Risk Solutions have a number of postgraduate students working with them at any one time.
If you are more interested in something like maths or chemistry, but kind of like volcanoes, you can still work in the general field – Volcanic Risk Solutions actually employ people from a number of different disciplines.
The core group focuses on geology, geochemistry, statistics, mathematics and physics, but there is a huge overlap with the social sciences. They do a lot of work with an ecological economist, Garry McDonald (incidentally, he’s a Massey University graduate too), of the New Zealand Centre for Ecological Economics and Market Economics Ltd. They put the numbers that Shane’s team collate into their ‘human form’ – for instance what the impact might be on business growth in regions who have a volcanic eruption nearby.
What career will I have?
If you study earth science, you could be employed in all sorts of jobs.
As well as working with someone like Shane Cronin, there are jobs like scientists in the petroleum and petrochemical industries, in mining, resource management, hazards research, land rehabilitation and engineering geology. Those graduates in research positions have specialised in geochemistry, paleomagnetism (the Earth's past magnetic fluctuations), palynology (fossil pollen), volcanology, phytoremediation (using plants to remove pollutants from soils), soil pollution and groundwater.
In New Zealand Massey University earth science graduates have gone on to be employed in various Crown Research Institutes, by regional councils (land and water resources), as secondary school teachers, in universities, as consultants, and varied positions in industry, all around the world.
Volcanology
If you want to go directly into volcanology, you’ll need to do postgraduate study in a relevant topic. You can get on-the-lava experience at the same time - Volcanic Risk Solutions have a number of postgraduate students working with them at any one time.
If you are more interested in something like maths or chemistry, but kind of like volcanoes, you can still work in the general field - Volcanic Risk Solutions actually employ people from a number of different disciplines.
The core group focuses on geology, geochemistry, statistics, mathematics and physics, but there is a huge overlap with the social sciences. They do a lot of work with an ecological economist, Garry McDonald (incidentally, he’s a Massey University graduate too), of the New Zealand Centre for Ecological Economics and Market Economics Ltd. They put the numbers that Shane’s team collate into their ‘human form’ – for instance what the impact might be on business growth in regions who have a volcanic eruption nearby.