29 Professional Pathways within the Geosciences

Thursday, 14 May 2020
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
San Rafael

PROFESSIONAL GEOLOGIST LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS AND THE ASBOG® NATIONAL GEOLOGY LICENSE EXAMINATIONS

Paper number: 29-3
Program: Theme Sessions
Time: 8:25 AM – 8:45 AM

Authors

Abstract

The purpose of professional licensing is to ensure a minimum level of competency for practitioners in a given field in order to protect the public. Having a license or similar credential to practice geology is a requirement in the majority of the United States and many other countries. In contrast to other professions, a disconnect has developed between applied geologists and academia. Professional licensing requirements are a fact of life for most applied geologists. Unfortunately, many faculty members have a limited understanding of the licensing requirements that their students must satisfy once they graduate.

This presentation will: 1) provide an overview of geology licensure qualification requirements in the United States; 2) discuss the national licensing examinations for geologists prepared by the National Association of State Boards of Geology (ASBOG®); and 3) explain how data from the ASBOG® Fundamentals of Geology (FG) examination can be used as a curriculum performance assessment and improvement tool.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 52, No. 4

doi: 10.1130/abs/2020CD-345529

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