Last call to join the Fall 2025 GEMS Mentorship Cohort — mentors and mentees are welcome!

[Katie Biegel]

Hello EarthScope Community,

There is still time to join the Geoscience Education & Mentorship Support program. This year’s cohort already includes over 120 students!

The Geoscience Education & Mentorship Support (GEMS) program is still actively recruiting mentors and mentees for the 2025-2026 academic year! GEMS supports individuals applying to or exploring graduate school across the geosciences (including Earth, atmospheric, ocean, planetary, and environmental sciences) through virtual mentoring. We match students with mentors based on interests, needs, and backgrounds.

Are you planning to apply to graduate programs now or in the future? Apply to be a GEMS mentee! We’ll match you with someone who can help guide you through the process.

Can you provide guidance for individuals applying to graduate programs? Join our team of mentors! Mentors are typically senior graduate students, postdocs, researchers, or faculty.

GEMS has two tracks: the Ruby Track is for individuals interested in going to graduate school in the future, and the Sapphire Track is for individuals applying to graduate programs during the current application cycle. Mentors can choose to provide support in either track. Please note that we are not currently accepting applications from international students who have never been enrolled in a US degree-granting program.

The application deadline is Sept 12th. Matches will be assigned September 22nd.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Sincerely,

Katie Biegel, on behalf of the GEMS Team

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Katie Biegel

Postdoctoral Researcher

Debris Flow Seismology

EPS Dept, UCDavis

kmbi...@ucdavis.edu

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