Career

For more information on academic and nonacademic careers, consider the following resources:

• Family Leave Policies compiled by the AAS and friends (New for 2013!)
• Division of Planetary Sciences Job Listing (New for 2012!)
• 51 Women in Planetary Science feature articles;
• American Astronomical Society Career Services;
• American Geological Institute Geoscience Workforce page and reports (see particularly Chapter 3: Geoscience Employment Sectors).
• American Geophysical Union Career Center;
• American Institute of Physics Career Network;
• Carleton College’s Science Education Resource Center;
• The Chronicle of Higher Education;
• Science Careers, from the journal Science;
• AAAS/Science Individual Development Plan Interactive Guide/Worksheets
• Feibelman, Peter J. A Ph.D. is Not Enough! A Guide to Survival in Science (1993, 109pp);
• Fiske, Peter S. Put Your Science to Work. The Take-Charge Career Guide of Scientists (2nd Ed. 2001, 179pp.);
• Reis, Richard M. Tomorrow’s Professor: Preparing For Academic Careers in Science and Engineering (1997, 416pp.) and associated online listserv: http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/tomprof/postings.php;
• ed. Robbins-Roth, Cynthia. Alternative Careers in Science, 1998;
• Tobias, S., D. Chubin, and K. Aylesworth. Rethinking science as a career: perceptions and realities in the physical sciences, Tucson: Research Corp, 1995; and a
• Compilation of Women in Geoscience links (including careers) by Prof. Natalie Mahowald, Cornell University, including her survey of female MS/PhD’s in non-academic careers, including what they like or don’t like about their jobs.

University alumni pages showing employment of their graduates:

• California Institute of Technology - Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences;
• University of Arizona - Department of Planetary Sciences;
• Cornell University - Department of Astronomy;
• University of California, Los Angeles - Department of Earth and Space Sciences; and
• Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

University students, postdoctoral fellows, and employees also can access a wealth of information through their Graduate Schools, Career Centers, Teaching Centers, and other resources on campus – including information about nonacademic careers that may not be available in their science departments.

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