GEOCORPS AMERICA - SUMMER GEOSCIENCE POSITIONS ON PUBLIC LANDS

2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting (28–31 October 2007)
Paper No. 139-13

Presentation Time: 11:00 AM-11:15 AM

GEOCORPS AMERICA - SUMMER GEOSCIENCE POSITIONS ON PUBLIC LANDS
HILL, Wesley M., Education & Outreach, The Geological Society of America, 3300 Penrose Pl, Boulder, CO 80301, whill@geosociety.org GeoCorps America is a GSA program that places students, professionals, and retirees on National Parks, National Forests, and BLM lands around the country to assist with summer geoscience projects. Land managers propose geoscience projects to GSA each year and GSA offers these summer positions to it's members. Projects are in paleontology, coastal geomorphology, geology, soils, mapping, research, monitoring, hydrogeology, hazard assesments, GIS, minerals, education....as well as other disciplines. GSA posts the positions on it's website each Feb for application. GSA strives to assist National Parks, National Forests, and BLM lands with their geoscience programs and offer summer positions to it's members. GSA plans to offer 20 summer positions on National Parks in 2008. Plus additional positions on National Forests and BLM lands.
2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting (28–31 October 2007) General Information for this Meeting

Session No. 139 Geology in the National Parks: Research, Mapping, and Resource Management Colorado Convention Center: 501 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6, p. 377
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