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Geoscientists Canada’s New President
Offers Solutions to Educational Erosion
As geoscience education enrolment declines across Canada, new Geoscientists Canada President Darcie Greggs, PhD, FGC, FEC (Hon.), P.Geol., is encouraging those in the profession to rethink how future talent is developed. The longtime APEGA registrant shares lessons from her own career and outlines how encouraging alternative points of view and supporting student growth can help build a stronger future for the geoscience profession.
APEGA Council President Dean Mullin, P.Eng., and Registrar and CEO Paul Wynnyk, P.Eng., joined Greggs at her AGM address in Saint John, New Brunswick, and hosted her at APEGA’s head office two weeks later, where she spoke to staff.
In both speeches, Greggs also provided part of the solution, drawn from her own educational experience: "to increase the potential of the geoscience profession, we need to widen the prospect pool and include new voices, whether by encouraging alternative points of view or listening to different ways of knowing and thinking. Across scientific fields, eureka moments often come from those with different perspectives,” Greggs points out.
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