Exploring Earth Sciences

By JESSICA LUTON  jluton@uga.edu

If interest in the Earth sciences is at your core, two events happening this week may very well provide some insight into the kinds of careers that are possible in meteorology and geography.

First up, tonight from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in room 200B of the Geography and Geology building, is an informational meeting entitled “Your Future in Meteorology.”  The UGA Chapter of the American Meteorological Society is hosting a discussion about the many career opportunities in the field. 

Featuring Georgia Athletic Association Professor and director of the UGA Atmospheric Sciences Program Marshall Shepherd, associate professor John Knox, broadcast meteorologist and alumni Tyler Mauldin, and several graduate students, the event will offer interested students an opportunity to learn more about weather and atmospheric sciences from those who know best.

If geography piques your interest, then you won’t want to miss this Friday afternoon Geography Department Colloquium. From 3:30 to 5 p.m. in room 200C of the Geography and Geology building, Katherine Hankins, from the department of geosciences at Georgia State University will be giving a talk entitled “The Politics of Place and the Place of Politics in Atlanta.”

The description provides some insight into the type of scholarly knowledge that will be discussed:

For decades, scholars of urban politics have pondered the questions of who governs, and in whose interests. And how is that governance resisted or reworked to represent the interests of marginalized groups in society? In this talk Hankins will explore the spatialities of these questions by putting into focus two particular processes that both express or carry out and respond to the changing tensions between urban space and politics: mobility and mobilizations.  Hankins will draw from her own work in Atlanta around school activism, public housing, land-use conflict and community development efforts to explore the politics of mobility—or the meaning and power underlying and produced through location-to-location movement, and the politics around mobilizations, or organizing resistance to dominant sociospatial forces.

Opportunities abound on campus to discover new potential areas of interest or just absorb new knowledge. Take advantage of it while you can.    

For more information on Geography as a major, visit: http://geography.uga.edu/become-a-geographer/

For more information on the Atmospheric Sciences program, visit: http://atsc.uga.edu/page19/page19.html

Image: Third planet from the Sun.