UK faces shortage of earth scientists

JUL 26, 2006

DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020294

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Guardian Unlimited : Britain is facing a chronic shortage of geophysicists as fewer students choose to study geophysical science at university and leading scientists in the field retire, a new study reveals.

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