Abstract
“Seismology as a profession?” asked my industry lunch host, his eyes widening in disbelief as we discussed the plans for the university department where I work to become part of a new professional school focused on the environment. My host, a former geophysics professor and now owner of a very successful environmental contracting firm, knows well some of the pressures driving such plans and, even more to the point, knows well the current job market for environmental professionals—at least of the geophysical type. His surprise reflected that the seismology we were taught, and now practice and teach, had always fit into the category of Science, and occasionally even Art, but rarely Profession. A Master's degree in Professional Seismology, a Doctorate in the Practice of Seismology? “Who will hire these students?” he earnestly asked me, stealing the question I was intending to ask him next, albeit in a much more hopeful...
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