• Search for life on Mars
• Explore the ocean floor
• Be a museum scientist
• Look for signs that Mount St. Helens is going to erupt
• Consult for city planners
• Clean up our environment
• Develop new industrial materials
• Mediate water rights
• Teach at a community college
• Search for and develop oil and mineral resources
• Help start the new University of California campus at Merced
• Protect California’s water supply
• Teach high-school science
• Reduce the risk to human life and property from earthquakes
• Go to law school
• Figure out why dinosaurs went extinct
• Reduce the risk to society from floods and landslides
• Become a university professor
• Monitor nuclear test bans for national defense
• Figure out why the climate is changing
• Travel to…Antarctica…Argentina…Australia…Cyprus…France…
  Greenland…Hawaii…Iceland…Ireland…South Africa…Tibet…and around the world….

These are examples from jobs held by graduates of UC Davis’s Geology program, who now work in industry, for the State of California, at the USGS, NASA, national labs, and other government agencies, and in museums, high schools, and colleges and universities throughout the world.

For more information on how to go about finding an internship or starting your career, see Careers in the Geosciences.

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For more information on how to earn a degree in Geology, please see our:

• Undergraduate Program Information Page
• Graduate Program Information Page

or if you are interested in teaching, see our

• B.S. degree in Natural Sciences

images (top to bottom): discovering Mars; teaching in the Grand Canyon; digging for fossils; monitoring Mount St. Helens; protecting the environment; traveling in Iceland; exploring the ocean floor; learning in Hawaii.