Via ScienceBlogs

Over the past several years, the geoscience blogosphere has blossomed
so much that this fall, the Geological Society of America (GSA) will be
convening a Pardee Keynote Symposium called “Google Earth to Geoblogs:
Digital Innovations in the Geosciences.” Kim Hannula started wondering
how blogs serve women geoscientists. Kim recruited the rest of us and
we decided to approach this problem as scientists – by collecting data
and analyzing the results.

Specifically, we’d like to know how blogs
might help in the recruitment and retention of women and minorities. We
plan to discuss our results at the GSA session on “Techniques and Tools
for Effective Recruitment, Retention and Promotion of Women and
Minorities in the Geosciences.” We have designed a survey, gone through
the Institutional Review Board process (completely foreign to us
geologists), and now we need help from you.

To start the survey, click here.