Geology Research

Scientificmind
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:52:48 +0000

Although you say you have no interest in commodities, that is where the best employment opportunities are. Right now, the most important are oil and gas. Currently, they estimate about some trillion barrels of oil from tar sands in Canada. There may be more deposits. Geologists are paid a premium to discover new deposits. Planetary science wise, if you are interested in planets beyond earth, astrophysics may be a better field to study, but opportunities in that is very scarce. Remember, not all planets are terrain based. Many of them are Gas giants orbiting very close or very far from their parent star. They maybe single stars or binary stars. But, like I said, planetary science should be more of a subsect of astrophysics, rather than geology. But whatever you do, do not specialize too narrowly too soon. You may end up closing doors that you don’t want to. But if you want to do pure research, a Ph.D and several post docs are definitely are requirement, especially if you are choosing an academic setting.