Earth Science Advice

kmh11
Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:01:32 +0000

Well, I honestly can’t give you a definitive answer about the types of research you might do, because the earth sciences have so many different subfields. I can’t really think of something specifically related to looking at the glaciers out in the field other than some sort of monitoring. There are lots of people who work with models and figure out how the glacier will retreat within future years. Their research involves using other people’s data and chugging away with models. Now, if you were interested in paleoclimate or paleoenvironment, you would go out to the field and collect samples and see what the Himalayas were like in the past.

Just keep poking your nose around in different magazines, and get in touch with your advisor about it, too. :)