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I think one of the main reasons why palaeontology is losing funding and 
money is because palaeontologists are isolated from politics.  Unlike  
conservationists for example, that get involved heavily in politics.  We 
must make ourselves to be heard!
Nonetheless, a good idea would be lobying goverments and politicians. A good 
report exhibiting that palaeontology uses modern methods and can discover 
vital knowledge  about important current issues such as climatic changes, as 
well as could provide economic income such as exhibitions, Musems, tematic 
parks etc will increase the jobs and money in our field. I shall remember 
that a Russian scientist who got in politics or lobbied his goverment, was 
the main influence why they developed such a good space program in the past!

I hope this helps!



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From: Frank Holterhoff <frank@matricus.com>
Reply-To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Re: paleonet AGI Report
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:54:05 -0600

Whew, thanks Norm...BTW, have we discussed how the Scots were oppressed by 
the English?

Many paleontologists have ended up in the petroleum industry, some of whom 
originally intended to be academics.  Some of these are doing paleontology 
within the petrolem industry setting, others not.  In fact, I personally 
know of at least one in the last category who tries to continue 
paleontological research & publication on his own time, although I don't 
know how he can fit much in around career & family. I'm sure there are a 
number of others.

Are there really lots of paleo jobs absolutely these days, or is it just a 
high ratio of jobs/candidates?  If there were more candidates, many of these 
positions would probably be filled before you heard about them.

F

N. MacLeod wrote:

>OK. The Kepkupaiui string has gone on way past long enough. Surely there's 
>something else of interest to talk about. For instance, I recently came 
>across an AGI report on the status of geosciences in US universities. The 
>url where with a link to the full report is: 
>http://www.earthscienceworld.org/careers/ The report seems to suggest 
>paleontology/stratigraphy has been the big loser in terms of faculty 
>positions between the 1980's and 2002. 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. Yet, I see lots of activity in terms of the paleo. job 
>market. What's the real story? Are academic paleontologists  and palaeo. 
>programs being differentially singled out? Also, where do paleontologists 
>who don't go into academics find jobs these days? Many leave the field. But 
>are they any employment sectors where paleontologists can be 
>paleontologists that are growing? Last, but not least, how many 
>paleontology positions are there in the world right now?
>
>Norm MacLeod
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