Students who graduate from my program are well-positioned to launch a career in academia, industry or government. About equal thirds of my students proceed into academia (moving from the MS to PhD, PhD to postdoc, or from graduate school to a faculty position), or are hired into industry or government positions.
Nearly all of my students remain in Earth Science on completion of their degree. Some career paths of my recent doctoral graduates include:
- A research position at the Geodetic Survey at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- A post-doc at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, followed by an Assistant Professorship of Oceanography and Marine Geology at the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, now Department Chair at the same institute
- A position as Deputy Director of the Sri Lankan Geologic Survey and Mines Bureau
- An Assistant Professorship at the College of Charleston in South Carolina
- An Assistant Professorship at Northwest Missouri State University
Most of my MS students have gone on to positions as technicians in government labs or industry positions or to the PhD program at Kent or other institutions, such as Case Western Reserve University or the Australian National University. The postdocs who I have mentored or co-mentored have also moved on to become productive members of the Environmental Science community: Dr. Katrin Monecke is an Assistant Professor at Wellesley College, and Dr. Liang Yi is a research scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, Peoples Republic of China.
If you are looking for a challenging research environment in a lab working on a diversity of Earth and Environmental Science questions, this is the place for you.
*Students applied methods learned in my lab to their project