Online engagement event set to encourage Girls into Geoscience

Young female and nonbinary people across the UK and Ireland are being encouraged to consider a career in geoscience with a virtual event day in June. The Girls into Geoscience initiative, now in its seventh year of operation, aims to introduce young female students in the later stages of high school (S5 and S6 in Scotland, GCSE to A-Level in the rest of the UK and Transition Year to Leaving Certificate in Ireland) to study and pursue a career in the scientifically diverse field of geoscience. Geoscience is the study of Earth's past, present, and future. It incorporates a wide range of expertise from across the sciences to help develop our understanding of Earth's complex intersecting biological, hydrological, geological and ecological systems. Girls into Geoscience was launched in 2014 at the University of Plymouth, expanding to include the universities across the UK and Ireland. This year's events will be held online on 28th and 29th June 2021. The Girls into Geoscience events bring together women from industry, government bodies, academia and high schools in order to highlight and promote geoscience and its potential as a valuable subject and career for women to pursue.