Students contemplating careers in geology should, upon graduating, expect to travel, often to remote and uninhabited areas. Most of the jobs entail outdoor field work, often under difficult conditions. Other new fields are now requiring geologists, as are companies and agencies such as NASA and the EPA that are involved with extraterrestrial and environmental concerns. The geological environment of Lake Superior State University provides unexcelled opportunities for field study of classic sections illustrating Precambrian stratigraphy, structure, intrusions, and metamorphism and undisturbed Paleozoic sedimentary formations. Proximity to deposits of iron, copper, uranium, dolomite and the Michigan oil and gas fields as well as other minerals is an additional advantage.
Students are eligible to participate in the department's active research in geology.
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