GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS The next opportunity in 2017 was interning for the Nevada
Division of Minerals Abandoned Mine Lands program. The eight of us on the crew would head out into the field every week and track down shafts and adits that the old miners dangerously left in their day. We built barbed wire fences and marked everything we found across the entire state as safe or hazardous. I’ve never had more fun laboring around NV with copious amounts of BBQ and playing cards every night with some of the hardest working people I know.
After another year of grinding through college I was for-
tunate to land a Geology internship for Barrick at Turquoise Ridge in the summer of 2018. I spent the summer designing the three-year infill drill program and going underground with ore control. My family has a mining background out of Austin, NV so being able to see exactly what makes a mine function was really rewarding. I made many friends and great connections over my time at the mine and in Winnemucca and will be heading back to intern over the winter.
Field camp is what I have in store for the summer of 2019
after I graduate in May and I’m ecstatic to get out there and map. After field camp I plan to move to Montana and work for Stillwater-Sibanye Mining company. Wherever I end up, there has to be plenty of outcrop.
COLORADO SECTION REX MONAHAN GEOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP WINNER
Pengfei Hou, SA-9941 Colorado School of Mines, CO Section - 2019 AIPG Colorado Section Rex Monahan Geological Scholarship awardee Predicting the future is inherently dif-
ficult. However, we can make reasonable
deductions about the foreseeable future by analyzing the trends in the past and at present. For geoscientists, the petro- leum, mineral, and environmental sectors account for nearly half of the employment. The geoscientists employed by the gov- ernment and academia at all levels essentially depend on the profit and tax generated by the petroleum, mineral, and other industries. There seems to be an increasing number of indepen- dent geoscientists who offer data management, processing, and analytics, education, or general consulting to other agencies or individuals. With the technological advancements in the 21st century, the scientific community and scientific research in general are experiencing some major transitions, such as in genome studies, nanotechnology, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence.
Geoscience is highly interdisciplinary, and involves studies
in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere. The advancements in other scientific disciplines will likely be borrowed and applied to Geoscience at a much faster pace in the future. Meanwhile, the growing population, economic development, and improving living standards of the world will increase the demand for energy, raw materials, geological hazard prediction, and environmental/climate change predic- tions, despite the increasing awareness of renewable energy, recycling, and sustainability. In my view, the most important area of employment of geosciences is related to marine geosci- ences, which includes marine petroleum and mineral explora- tion and development, marine environmental research and
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protection, and related academic, government, or consulting employment opportunities. The oceans hold a vast amount of natural resources which can support the world for hundreds of years or more. Everyone knows that 70% of the Earth is cov- ered by oceans, but few know what the ocean floor looks like. We have mapped the Mars and the Moon at high resolutions, but only a fraction of the ocean floor to such a degree. A large part of marine geological processes are not known well due to difficulties in observation, high cost, and limited techniques and equipment etc. Another problem is the immense size of the geologic features under the ocean, such as large submarine fans, landslides, volcanos, subduction trenches, etc. It is dif- ficult to grasp the big picture of these geological systems at our human scale. In the next decade, there will probably be more technologies for data collection, processing, and interpretation in marine geoscience. Underwater robots will be increasingly powerful. There will be a massive amount of data to deal with. Utilizing AI technology and developing some automated tools for data processing and interpretation will be essential. For example, automated lithofacies interpretation, well log correla- tion, and seismic interpretation will likely become accurate and efficient within the next decade, which will greatly improve the productivity of geological data analyses. The employment opportunities lie in these technological trends. On one hand, there will be a great demand for multi-disciplinary teams of geoscientists, electrical engineers and oceanographers to develop the needed tools. There will also be a great demand to integrate all geological information into one platform, which will require geoscientists to work together and formalize some unifying theories. On the other hand, the massive amount of data and increasing efficiency in automation will set geoscien- tists free from the tedious basic work and give them more time to think and work from an elevated perspective. We might be able to understand many marine geological processes in much more detail, such as submarine sedimentation, subduction, and hydrothermal vents. The progress will likely accelerate the next paradigm shift in geoscience in general.
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