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Students & Early Career

GSA supports every stage of your geoscience journey with funding, field experiences, mentoring, networking, jobs, and professional development tailored for students and early-career geoscientists.

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Explore Funding Opportunities

Find funding for undergraduate, grad student, & postdoc to support your science.

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Build Your Network & Career

Attend workshops and webinars, browse GSA’s job board, join communities, and so much more.

Careers & Networking

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Professional Development

Explore leadership opportunities & build community through GSA’s Center of Professional Excellence (CPE).

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GSA Connects

Advance your career through short courses, field trips, and Professional Learning Pathways for CEUs - while building your network through mentoring programs and gaining leadership skills through volunteer and leadership opportunities.

GSA Connects Professional Learning Pathways

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GSA Section Meetings

Learn local geology and applied methods through short courses and field trips, earn CEUs through Professional Learning Pathways, build your network through mentoring programs, and gain soft skills through leadership and volunteer opportunities.

Section Meetings Networking & Mentoring

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Specialized Pathways

Gain experience working in the field, on capitol hill, or communicating your science to the masses through these GSA programs.

GeoCorps™

GeoCorps™ America offers paid short-term geoscience opportunities in some of the most beautiful natural areas in the world.

GeoCorps™

Scientists in the Parks

Scientists in Parks provides immersive, paid opportunities to work on important real-world projects while building professional experience and a life-long connection to America’s national parks.

In the Parks

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Science Policy

Put your expertise to work by shaping science policy on Capitol Hill.

Look into the GSA-USGS Congressional Science Fellowship or GSA’s Science Policy Fellowship for a chance to influence policy around science and technology.

Congressional Science Policy

Science Communication

Make your voice heard through GSA’s Science Communication Fellowship—a paid, eleven-month, non-residential fellowship that offers graduate students and professionals the chance to work with GSA communications to bring geoscience research and news to the GSA members and the general public.

Sci Comm Fellowship

YouTube Videos

Check out our YouTube channel, @geosociety, to learn how to submit abstracts, what it’s like to go on a GSA field trip, how to apply for a GSA grants, and more!

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How to Write & Submit Your Abstract

Explore session topics and learn how to write & submit your abstract for GSA meetings.

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Field Trip to the Devonian

Explore ancient Earth on this GSA Field Trip to Catskill Clastic Wedge in West Virginia, USA.

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Grant Application Tutorial

Learn how to apply for a GSA Graduate Student Research Grant in this detailed walk thougth.

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