If you have students asking you what employment will really be like in the geosciences, here is a resource that will help!.  In the American Geosciences Institute's Geoscience Workforce Program's ongoing effort to support the development of a robust geoscience profession, presents the first of these EARTH articles, "The Bakken Boom and the New Wild West – A Young Geologist’s Perspective." Feel free to distribute this article with your students.

"The Bakken Boom and the New Wild West – A Young Geologist’s Perspective." - PDF File (1.5 MB)