Strong increase in number of applicants to the @uibgeo Earth Science programme this year! For the first time in at least two decades, the number of applicants DOES NOT track the oil price with a 2 year lag.

I believe that means we (the geoscience community) has been able to demonstrate all the useful and exciting things you can do with an earth science degree, as shown in this wonderful poster by the @geolsoc https://twitter.com/geolsoc/status/1219951060011376640?s=20

Which other career would put you in the middle of so many important issues? Climate change, geohazard mitigation, responsible resource extraction, CO2 storage, and my favorite, understanding the poetry of the earth?

And also, it is a lot of fun and the learning environment is fantastic https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/sep/11/geology.students?CMP=twt_gu