Google Earth Application Download
Arnou Vargo
The Department of Earth System Science offers a PhD program in a wide range of fields, including water resources; ocean circulation; land use change; sustainable food and water practices; climate, tectonics, and landscape evolution; ocean biogeochemistry; climate and earth system dynamics; soil and environmental biogeochemistry; molecular microbial ecology; and, geostatistics. The size and the breadth of interest of the department's faculty provide numerous opportunities for field-based research as well as laboratory and numerical experiments. We apply the most modern applications of instrumental analysis and spectroscopy to problems in the Earth sciences.
Read through the instructions and begin your electronic application on the Stanford Graduate Admissions website. When prompted to select the program to which you are applying, select "Earth System Science PhD" or "Earth System Science MS". Before you apply to our MS degree, be sure to check with your potential faculty advisor to determine whether they accept terminal MS students, since many do not. Please check the admissions FAQ page for more information
The Supplemental Information is part of the online application. You will be asked to identify up to three faculty members with whom you want to work and why. You can simply write N/A if you have less than four names in mind.
GRE - The general GRE test is optional. After communicating with your potential advisor, if you think that submitting GRE scores will help your case for admission, then feel free to do so. If submitted, scores must be from tests taken within the past five years, and must be reported directly to Stanford from ETS. The Stanford score recipient number is 4704. To facilitate preliminary review of your application, please provide your scores in the electronic form if you plan to submit them. If you have previously applied to Stanford (within the past five years), we have your prior test scores. We do not have a minimum GRE score requirement, and we do not track average scores for admitted applicants.
Following the instructions in the electronic application system, arrange for your three letters of recommendation to be submitted electronically. It is required by the University that at least one of the recommenders be a faculty member at the last school you attended as a full-time student unless you have been out of school for more than five years. Letters of recommendation that can speak first-hand about your research training and course preparation will be most helpful. Substitutions for faculty recommendations may include work associates or others who can comment on your potential for graduate work. All letters of recommendation must be received by the application deadline. Applicants are responsible for notifying references of the deadline.
Application Fee Waiver -- Waiver deadline is 10-15 days before the application deadline, depending on the type of waiver. Please use this link for more information on the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability fee wavier.
Due to the high volume of applications, we cannot respond to individual inquiries about the status of an application or of documents submitted. We will accept letters of recommendation and official test scores after the deadline. The office will be closed from December 21, 2023 - January 3, 2024. Decisions will be made on all applications by the end of March.
NOTICE: Federal regulations require that a valid authorization be obtained prior to the use and operation of certain earth station facilities within the United States. The sample completed Form 312 applications and other information included here are provided as a courtesy and are only for illustrative purposes. These samples are purposely simplified, and should not be considered as a substitute for engaging competent legal and technical assistance in the preparation of earth station applications.
ICFS (International Communications Filing System) is IB's new consolidated licensing database. Earth Stations, Space Stations, International Section 214, International Public Fixed, and International HF Broadcasting services are all included within ICFS. ICFS now supports public access via the World Wide Web. This allows applicants to file many applications electronically and to check on the status of their application via a WWW browser.
Sample earth station application forms using FCC Form 312 have been prepared for several types of typical earth station applications. These completed application forms may be used as a guide to the preparation of your actual Form 312 application for an earth station authorization. Sample FCC Form 312 applications are available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format for the following types of earth station applications.
You can apply online by clicking on the job title you are interested in and clicking on the "Apply" link. If this is the first time you are applying using our online job application, you will need to create an account and select a User-name and Password. Your information and application will be saved so you may use it to apply for additional jobs in the future. Online applications are stored on a secure site. Only authorized employees and hiring authorities have access to the information submitted.
It is important that your application show all the relevant education and experience you possess. Do not leave the "Duties" space blank or mark "See Resume". Please complete this section for all employers within the application. When submitting your application, be sure to provide at least three (3) professional references. Applications may be rejected if incomplete. While completing the application questions, your progress will automatically be saved every 30 seconds.
Blue Earth County will only email notices relating to your job application. Be sure to check your email regularly after submitting an application as Blue Earth County utilizes online self scheduling. We will use the email address that is on file with us to send instructions on how to schedule an interview. Remember to check your spam filter and "Junk" email folders as well as incorrectly marked as SPAM by some SPAM filters.
Google Earth is a popular Internet application through which users can view maps. This web site provides zipped Keyhole Markup Language (.kmz) files through which users can view map overlays created from FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer on Google Earth images.
You must already have the Google Earth application installed on your computer to use these files. The starting point for obtaining the software is Information about the system requirements needed for your computer to run the software is available through A user guide is available at
FEMA offers two applications: "Stay Dry" and "FEMA NFHL." Stay Dry is more simple and focused. NFHL is less limited but more complex to use. Each is described below, and each has its own .kmz file. For optimum performance, please do not open both, and do not have more than one copy of each, in Google Earth at the same time.
Some Geographic Information System (GIS) software can import GIS data encoded in the kmz format used for these applications. This technique is unlikely to work with the kmz files provided below. If you are interested in using the NFHL in GIS software, use the NFHL GIS data or NFHL Web Map Service (WMS) or Representative State Transfer REST) Service. All product options and services are available through FEMA's Map Service Center (MSC) at
"Stay Dry" is a focused application that provides basic flood hazard map information from FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer for an address. It allows you to view flood hazard zones and Flood Insurance Rate Map numbers and boundaries.
"FEMA NFHL" is a general application that provides for the display of flood hazard zones and labels, floodways, Coastal Barrier Resources System and Otherwise Protected Area units, community boundaries and names, base flood elevations, cross sections and coastal transects and their labels, hydraulic and flood control structures, flood profile baselines, coastal transect baselines, limit of moderate wave action lines, river mile markers, and Flood Insurance Rate Map and Letter of Map Revision boundaries and numbers. Additional reference layers include the status of NFHL data availability, point locations for Letters of Map Amendment (LOMAs) and Letters of Map Revision Based on Fill (LOMRFs). You control the information displayed by turning layers on and off. A basic knowledge of Google Earth and FEMA flood hazard information will help users of this application.
The name of each layer is hyperlinked to a description of the layer, the map symbols used for the layer, and links to other FEMA web sites relevant to the layer. If a layer is turned on, clicking the text below the name of the layer (text that starts with "Draws at") zooms the Google Earth view to a sample display of the layer. Layers are organized for display at one or more of three "eye altitude" (map scale) ranges in Google Earth: status maps at high altitudes, regional overviews of flood hazards at medium altitudes, and detailed flood hazard maps at low altitudes. Click on the hyperlinked folder name of the application to see the altitudes at which data in the layers are displayed.
Inspect the status of all the layers in the "Places" panel. Be sure to turn on only the overlays you need, and turn off all other layers and applications that display FEMA flood data (like FEMAs Stay Dry application). See area C in Figure 1.
Admission to our program is competitive. We receive many more applications than we have spaces for. It pains us that, every year, we have to pass on many applications from excellent students. Below are our recommendations to maximize your chances of success.
A: Our application deadline is in January (this year's exact date is shown at the top of this page). All application materials, letters of recommendation, writing samples and scores must be received by this date in order for you to be considered for admission as well as for campus-wide fellowships and departmental financial support. We will consider granting a two-week extension for tests and/or letters of recommendation, if approved. If you wish to request an extension, please contact gr...@geol.ucsb.edu.
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