THE STUDENT CAREER EXPERIENCE PROGRAM: A Door to a Career with the National Weather Service

摘要

Concern has been expressed for sometime that there is a large and perhaps growing imbalance between the number of new atmospheric scientists graduating from universities in the United States and the number of employment opportunities available to them(Hanson 1993; Mass 1996; Knox 2008). Knox, in particular, sought to quantify trends using data from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES; http:/ces.ed.gov/programs/digest/) and the American Meteorological Society-University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (AMS-UCAR) online database (http://ametsoc.org/amsucar_curricula/index.cfm). Such a growing imbalance, if true, would, in theory, represent a favorable situation for both private and public sector employers of atmospheric scientists, in that there would be far more than enough skilled recent graduates available to fill their entry-level positions.