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Good luck. I was almost rejected by UNL. The profs said to me.

When is this year's spring break? Will the professors still work in that week?

Are your funding from UNL guaranteed? RA or TA?

But what is they guarantee the two year's TAships?

And the prof said it is required for his MS student to publish at least one paper to get the degree. So it seems that the prof is strict with the research.

There is a professor likely to accept with TAship, and he has a good lab research and good publication record in his area. But the ranking of UNO and its geology program seems to be quite low. Should I consider about this?

I also applied for UNL, but nothing from there. Could you tell me who is your advisor there?

I encountered several cases that the professors said they are lacking of funding. so that they could not accept students. What if I can pay the tuition and living expenses by myself?

100 is a relatively small number. As I know, there are 600 applicants for UT Austin

I think it is also because that petroleum geology is the most popular topic in the geology department than the fundamental geology. Lots of students want to get involved in the petroleum business. That is why petroleum-related professors would receive so many inquiries each day.

As you know, they are too busy to reply to you, even not read the email. But calling them can make the communication better.

Why not call them to say that?

So, you are finally admitted into UTAustin, but got rejections from other universities which are less competitive than UTAustin. Congratulations, but also incredible! Do you find out the reason?

I noticed that, for instance, Dr. Grammar's title is "Chesapeake Energy Chair of Petroleum Geology". It seems that this oil company really highly recognizes him. And is your major also petroleum geology? Which university are you attending now?

As you said, if the professors there could get some oil funding from the oil industry, I could believe the oil companies would hire the petroleum-geology students from OSU hopefully. I don't care whether there is academic funding, because my career plan is industry-oriented. And I totally agree the advisor matters the most if you pursue a PHD degree.

I have scanned the faculty information from the website and feel that it has stronger geology program compared with some universities ranked at USnews' earthsciences-devision regarding to the faculty amount, the funded research projects and so on. Thus I am confused and do not know whether it deserves to be applied for.

Thanks for the advice. Well, based on my own preference, I choose one-year course-based Integrated Petroleum Geosciences program at UA rather than LSU. You know, this program, as a stepping stone, can supply me a chance to become a research student supervised by the professors there with the specialization in unconventional play.

I agree with "what is more important is that the research you do is done well and presented well". I think the thing which is also very very important is the quality of research project you participate in. I mean if there is even no potential reasonable or rational geological problems to be resolved, or the method in conducting the project has been outdated. how could you make progress in the research? So except for choosing a good program、a good supervisor, it is necessary to seriously evaluate the assigned project.

How is your result?

Take unconventional play as an example. If someone wants to work in unconventional play, is it better or even required for him to conduct the research or even do his graduate thesis which is related with that field?

yes, I have noticed that one of his PHD student is hired by the Shell. but as you could see,one of his active projects, for example, is Surface processes of salt structures The uncommonly low viscosity and density of salt allows it to have strong control on the evolution and deformation of many passive margins and fold-thrust belts. While salt is present in many basins around the world, very few salt structures are sub-aerial. Northwestern China offers a recently recognized prospect for sub-aerial investigation of a range of active salt structures. To help understand the strange behavior of salt we are using remote sensing tools, like interferometry of radar imagery, to observe the kinematics of active salt exposures. Project participants: Cindy Colon, Alex Webb, Li Jianghai (Peking University), Mao Xiang (Peking University), Rowena Lohman (Cornell) Here are the recent publications of his. And I could not say this expertise can be used in the oil industry. Moore, W.B., Webb, A.A.G., 2013, Heat-pipe Earth. Nature, v. 501, p. 501-505. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v501/n7468/full/nature12473.html Bader, T., Franz, L., Ratschbacher, L., de Capitani, C., Webb, A.A.G., Yang, Z., Pfänder, J.A., Hofmann, M., Linnemann, U., 2013, The heart of China revisited: II Early Paleozoic (ultra)high-pressure and (ultra)high-temperature metamorphic Qinling orogenic collage. Tectonics, v. 32, p. 922-947. PDF *Leger, R.M., Webb, A.A.G., Henry, D.J., *Craig, J.A., Dubey, P., 2013, Metamorphic field gradients across the Himachal Himalaya, northwest India: Implications for the emplacement of the Himalayan crystalline core. Tectonics, v. 32, p. 540-557. PDF (e-mail Dr. Webb for supplementary material file) *Donaldson, D.G., Webb, A.A.G., Menold, C.A., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Hacker, B.R., 2013, Petrochronology of Himalayan ultrahigh-pressure eclogite. Geology, v. 41, p. 835-838. PDF SUPPLEMENT Webb, A.A.G., 2013, Preliminary palinspastic reconstruction of Cenozoic deformation across the Himachal Himalaya (northwestern India). Geosphere. v. 9, p. 572-587. PDF PLATE Webb, A.A.G., Yin, A., Dubey, C.S., 2013, U-Pb zircon geochronology of major lithologic units in the Eastern Himalaya: Implications for the origin and assembly of Himalayan rocks. Geological Society of America Bulletin. v. 125, p. 499-522. PDF I hope you give me the refutation.

http://geology.lsu.edu/People/Faculty/item32882.html this is the web link of the potential supervisor there. Another choice is to enter the one-year course-based Integrated Petroleum Geosciences program at U of Alberta as a high springboard to the thesis-based MS/PHD program. I really hesitate.

I have been admitted into this program, and does anyone know something about it? The potential advisor there conducts research in structural geology and tectonics. But my career plan is to work in the oil industry. Would you think it is a suitable program for me? Thank you.

Same as me. What is next step?

Does the geo department only accept students with available funding, even if the student can support himself?