Results from surveys to academic and industry and government geoscientists on the future of coal geoscientists

At recent technical conferences, many coal geoscientists in academia and government institutions as well as in industry organizations have expressed concern about the dwindling number of students and young staff members interested in careers in coal geoscience. To better understand what is driving these trends and to identify potential ways that the community can increase interest and participation in coal geoscience, two different surveys were sent to 94 coal geoscientists who were current or past members of The Society of Organic Petrology (TSOP) in February 2020. As the trends and perceptions in industry and government organizations may be different than in universities, one distinct survey was sent to members...

Categories: Data; Tags: Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, China, All tags... Coal, Coal geoscience, Coal geoscientist, Columbia, Denmark, Europe, Future of coal geoscience, Gender, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Last hire, Left field, Nigeria, Non-combustion uses of coal, North America, Poland, Recruitment, Retrained, Russia, South America, Spain, Staff, Students, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United Kingdom, United States, Fewer tags

USGS National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project—Mesozoic Petroleum Systems of Central European Basin System: Assessment Unit Boundaries, Assessment Input Data, and Fact Sheet Data Tables

This data release contains the boundaries of assessment units, assessment input data and resulting fact sheet data tables for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Mesozoic petroleum systems of the Central European Basin System. The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources. The Assessment Unit is defined within the context of the higher-level Total Petroleum System. The Assessment Unit is shown herein as a geographic boundary interpreted, defined, and mapped by the geologist responsible for the province and incorporates a set of known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Assessment Unit, Central-Tail End Graben Conventional Oil and Gas, Conventional Assessment Unit, East Shetland Platform Conventional Oil, Energy Resources, All tags... Energy Resources, Faeroes-Shetland-Orkney Basin Conventional Oil and Gas, Geology, Germany, Lower Saxony Basin Mesozoic Conventional Oil and Gas, Moray Firth Basin-Witch Ground Graben Conventional Oil and Gas, NOGA2000, National Assessment of Oil and Gas, Natural Gas, Netherlands, Oil, OilGas, Resource Assessment, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United Kingdom, Utsira High-Horda Platform Conventional Oil and Gas, Viking Graben-East Shetland Basin Conventional Oil and Gas, West Netherlands Basin Mesozoic Conventional Oil and Gas, energy resources, geoscientificInformation, natural gas resources, oil resources, petroleum, Fewer tags

USGS National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project-Lower Saxony Basin: Assessment Unit Boundaries, Assessment Input Data, and Fact Sheet Data Tables

This data release contains the boundaries of assessment units and input data for the assessment of undiscovered gas resources in the Lower Saxony Basin, Germany. The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources. The Assessment Unit is defined within the context of the higher-level Total Petroleum System. The Assessment Unit is shown herein as a geographic boundary interpreted, defined, and mapped by the geologist responsible for the province and incorporates a set of known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal properties within the Total Petroleum...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Assessment Unit, Continuous Assessment Unit, Conventional Assessment Unit, Energy Resources, Energy Resources, All tags... Geology, Germany, Gifhorn Trough Posidonia Shale Oil, Lower Saxony Basin Posidonia Shale Gas, Lower Saxony Basin Posidonia Shale Oil, Lower Saxony Basin Wealden Shale Gas, Lower Saxony Basin Wealden Shale Oil, NOGA2000, National Assessment of Oil and Gas, Natural Gas, Netherlands, Oil, OilGas, Resource Assessment, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), energy resources, geoscientificInformation, natural gas resources, oil resources, petroleum, Fewer tags

Yale stocks and flows database (YSTAFDB) describing anthropogenic materials cycles, recycling, and criticality for 102 materials on spatial scales ranging from suburbs to global and timescales from the early 1800s to circa 2013

This data release presents the Yale stocks and flows database (YSTAFDB). Its data describe the use of 102 materials from the early 1800s to circa 2013 through anthropogenic cycles, their recycling and criticality properties, and on spatial scales ranging from suburbs to global. This data collection was previously scattered across multiple non-uniformly formatted files such as journal papers, reports, and unpublished spreadsheets. These data have been synthesized into YSTAFDB, which is presented as individual comma-separated text files and also in MySQL and PostgreSQL database formats. Consolidation of these data into a single database can increase their accessibility and reusability, which is relevant to diverse...

Categories: Data; Tags: AFGHANISTAN, ALBANIA, ALGERIA, ANDORRA, ANGOLA, All tags... ANGUILLA, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, ARGENTINA, ARMENIA, ARUBA, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA, AZERBAIJAN, Africa, Asia, BAHAMAS, THE, BAHRAIN, BANGLADESH, BARBADOS, BELARUS, BELGIUM, BELIZE, BENIN, BHUTAN, BOLIVIA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, BOTSWANA, BRAZIL, BRUNEI, BULGARIA, BURKINA FASO, BURMA, BURUNDI, CAMBODIA, CAMEROON, CANADA, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, CHAD, CHILE, CHINA, COLOMBIA, COMOROS, COSTA RICA, CROATIA, CUBA, CURACAO, CYPRUS, CZECH REPUBLIC, Cape Verde, Caribbean, Central America, Central Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Congo (Republic of the), DENMARK, DJIBOUTI, DOMINICA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, EGYPT, EL SALVADOR, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, ERITREA, ESTONIA, ETHIOPIA, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Energy Resources, Environmental Health, Europe, European Union, FIJI, FINLAND, FRANCE, FRENCH GUIANA, FRENCH POLYNESIA, GABON, GAMBIA, THE, GEORGIA, GERMANY, GHANA, GIBRALTAR, GREECE, GREENLAND, GRENADA, GUADELOUPE, GUAM, GUATEMALA, GUINEA, GUINEA-BISSAU, GUYANA, HAITI, HONDURAS, HONG KONG, HUNGARY, ICELAND, INDIA, INDONESIA, IRAN, IRAQ, IRELAND, ISRAEL, ITALY, IVORY COAST (COTE D’IVOIRE), JAMAICA, JAPAN, JORDAN, KAZAKHSTAN, KENYA, KOREA, NORTH, KOREA, SOUTH, KUWAIT, KYRGYZSTAN, LAOS, LATVIA, LEBANON, LESOTHO, LIBERIA, LIBYA, LITHUANIA, LUXEMBOURG, Latin America, MACEDONIA, MADAGASCAR, MALAWI, MALAYSIA, MALI, MARTINIQUE, MAURITANIA, MAURITIUS, MEXICO, MOLDOVA, MONGOLIA, MONTENEGRO, MOROCCO, MOZAMBIQUE, Middle East, Mineralogy, NAMIBIA, NEPAL, NETHERLANDS, NEW CALEDONIA, NEW ZEALAND, NICARAGUA, NIGER, NIGERIA, NORWAY, North America, Northern Europe, OMAN, Oceania, PAKISTAN, PANAMA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, PARAGUAY, PERU, PHILIPPINES, POLAND, PORTUGAL, PUERTO RICO, QATAR, REUNION, ROMANIA, RUSSIA, RWANDA, SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE, SAUDI ARABIA, SENEGAL, SERBIA, SEYCHELLES, SIERRA LEONE, SINGAPORE, SLOVAKIA, SLOVENIA, SOMALIA, SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH SUDAN, SPAIN, SRI LANKA, SUDAN, SURINAME, SWAZILAND, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, SYRIA, South America, TAIWAN, TAJIKISTAN, TANZANIA, THAILAND, TIMOR-LESTE, TOGO, TONGA, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, TUNISIA, TURKEY, TURKMENISTAN, UGANDA, UKRAINE, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES, URUGUAY, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), UZBEKISTAN, VENEZUELA, VIETNAM, WESTERN SAHARA, Western Europe, YEMEN, ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE, circular economy, economy, environment, geoscientificInformation, industrial ecology, location, material flows, material life cycles, materials flow (commodities), metallic mineral resources, mineral deposits, nonmetallic mineral resources, society, Fewer tags

USGS National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project—Paleozoic Petroleum Systems of Central European Basin System: Assessment Unit Boundaries, Assessment Input Data, and Fact Sheet Data Tables

This data release contains the boundaries of assessment units, assessment input data tables and resulting fact sheet data tables for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Paleozoic petroleum systems of the Central European Basin System. The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources. The Assessment Unit is defined within the context of the higher-level Total Petroleum System. The Assessment Unit is shown herein as a geographic boundary interpreted, defined, and mapped by the geologist responsible for the province and incorporates a set of known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations sharing similar...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Anglo-Dutch Basin Conventional Gas, Assessment Unit, Belgium, Conventional Assessment Unit, Denmark, All tags... Energy Resources, Energy Resources, Geology, Germany, Mid North Sea High Conventional Gas, NOGA2000, National Assessment of Oil and Gas, Natural Gas, Netherlands, Northeast German Basin Conventional Gas, Northeast German Basin Permian Conventional Oil and Gas, Northwest German Basin Conventional Gas, Norwegian-Danish Basin Conventional Oil and Gas, Oil, OilGas, Poland, Polish Trough Conventional Oil and Gas, Resource Assessment, Sweden, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United Kingdom, energy resources, geoscientificInformation, natural gas resources, oil resources, petroleum, Fewer tags