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Thank You 2019 NPS

Geoscientists-in-the-Parks

Participants, Partners,

and Donors!

The National Park Service (NPS) Geoscientists-in-the-Parks (GIP) program places college students and early
career professionals (18–35 years old) in NPS units for three months to one year to assist with geology and integrated
science projects. This program is a partnership between the NPS, GSA, and Stewards Individual Placement Program.
Opportunities for spring/summer 2020 will be posted online and open for applications at the beginning of December 2019.

www.geosociety.org/gip

Clockwise from top left: John He examining a rock on Mica Mountain, Saguaro National Park. Alex Ennes leading a Geology Walk on Door
Trail in Badlands National Park. Susie Hertfelder preparing fossils in the Richard Ditton Learning Lab at the Las Vegas Natural History
Museum during National Fossil Day, 2018. Eddie Cascella mixing sediment samples together from Cape Cod National Seashore’s Nauset
Marsh before bagging it and sending it to a lab for further analysis.

Partners include: Major donors include: Other funding sources include:

Badlands Natural History
Association
Eastern National
Grand Canyon Conservancy
National Park Service Stewards Individual Shenandoah National Park Trust
Placement Program
Bob and Sally Newcomb NPS Intermountain Region

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