New Book

Outsiders: Personal Stories of Marginalization and Perseverance in the Geosciences

Editors: Claudia I. Mora and A. Wesley Ward

The geological sciences are among the least diverse of all the sciences. Despite achieving gender parity within our student population, the underrepresentation of women, people of color, and people with disabilities persists across our professional ranks. This book presents autobiographical stories by eight professional earth scientists from underrepresented groups, who persevered in their quests to develop a career in the earth sciences despite experiencing marginalization rooted in prejudice, bias, ignorance, and/or indifference. Their stories are unique and frank and send a message that marginalization is surmountable, a condition to be navigated and to be changed.

New at Geology

GeoScienceWorld (GSW) now includes significant new content. With 56 journals from publishers such as AAPG, Geological Society of America, Geological Society of London, Society for Sedimentary Geology, and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. GSW adds a comprehensive, integrated, online resource for many research materials in the geological and earth sciences to the UW-Madison collection.  In addition, there is now access to e-books from 14 of the journal publishers.

This new content also includes innovative split screen features:

• -Browseable images on the right, full text on the left
• -Scroll each independently
• -View larger versions of images
• -Download images for PowerPoint options
• -Tab structure showing Table of Contents, References, and Related links
• -PDF View, standard view options