American Geologists Today and Tomorrow

Abstract

Since 1957 which marked the peak in industrial hiring geology major students of the American universities have been experiencing much difficulties in finding professional employment and many trained geologists have registered themselves as unempolyed. To remedy this situation and to find solutions, efforts have been made by the geologists, both on the academic and industrial sides. Industrial-Academic Relations Committee (AAPG), Curriculum and Standard Committee (NAGT), GEO-Study (AGI), etc. are the products of such efforts and they have provided us the real pictures of these problems and the prospects of solutions. In this paper the writers are going to introduce these problems of the American geologists, based mainly on the data provided by these committees, and also on Shenon's presidental address “Economic Geology Today and Tomorrow” delivered at the 1962 Annual Meeting of SEG. They also refer to the present situation of the geology education and employment of geology major students in the Japanese universities as compared to the problems in the United States.