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> The histogram that compares the stats for the various specialty >groups showed a larger drop for geochemists, but this was more than >made up for by a net increase in environmental geology positions, >many of which would be environmental geochemistry. Geochemists can call themselves a lot of different things because geochemistry has become so important to so many different topics, including politically charged and therefore well funded ones like global warming. >Are academic paleontologists and palaeo. programs being >differentially singled out? At my institution the invertebrate paleontology class had three students enrolled last fall and two of them were repeating the course. With tuition costs the way they are students gravitate toward fields that they perceive to be (1) well paid and (2) job-opportunity-rich. Paleontology (aside from dinosaur-mania) suffers from a public relations problem. Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ McLallen House 30 McLallen Street Trumansburg, New York 14886 607-387-3892 http://www.mclallenhouse.com
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