I might lose some supporters with this post. But I’m not going to hide who I am. I’m a geologist. Which means deep down inside I’m a hippie. Yes, a black hippie. #ITooAmHippie Brief recap for those of you who missed it…Monday night on the Colbert Report Stephen did a skit that was meant to shame…
Who doesn’t love Neil deGrasse Tyson? I call him The People’s Scientist. I just finished watching him on The Colbert Report and he shared his history with Carl Sagan. For those of you who haven’t watched the episode yet *SPOILER ALERT!* When Neil applied to Cornell University to study physics as an undergrad, the university…
The other day a friend and I were discussing controversial stereotypes. I found myself getting more and more irritated as I thought about how these generalizations are propagated throughout our society as fact, and the harm it does to everyone. I was venting my frustration at the fact that black people have very few positive…
My brain felt a little overloaded today, so I spent part of my morning putzing around the internets looking for light material to ease my sore overworked self. I visited Time Magazine Ideas website and got sucked into two opposing articles on the same issue: How do we talk about race? What sparked this journalistic…
Did I hear that correctly?! The National Parks Service and the Geological Society of America have teamed up to combat the lack of diversity? Yesssss! It’s true! This racial-gap-fighting-duo has come together and created Mosaics in Science, an 11-week internship during Summer 2014. Historically underrepresented undergraduates (or recent grads) between the ages of 17-25 can…
And…FYI this is also why I personally hate skiing or snowboarding. Not because I don’t like the outdoors. The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a major center point for many geologists. Their regional and annual conferences are a great way to network and learn about new research. Everyone who’s anyone goes to GSA Conferences…
Hello Friends! This initiative is focused on increasing diversity in the geosciences, and I would like your help. My initiative will be focusing on the major underrepresentation of blacks in geosciences. Why blacks? Only 2% of geoscience degrees are awarded to blacks, even though we make up 15% of the population. That has got to…
Black Geoscientists 