Sacramento AEG 2023 Student Night & Jahn's Lecture - April 19

The AEG Sacramento Chapter is hosting its annual Student Night meeting on Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 at Drake's: The Barn in West Sacramento. Student Night encourages students from our regional universities to make valuable connections with working professionals and the meeting is a great opportunity for geology students to meet/interact with professional geologists in the environmental & engineering geology fields. Student attendance is free and we strongly encourage professionals to attend and engage with students at this event.

As an added bonus this year, the AEG 2022-2023 Jahn's Distinguished Lecturer, Vincent Cronin, will also be in town and plans to give a student-orietnted talk during the event titled A Path from “Rocks for Jocks” to a Career in Engineering Geology. 

There will be a dinner, student poster presentations, and announcements of scholarship winners. Registration is $30 for professional members, $50 for professional non-members. No registration fee for students but please register for headcount and our food order. Gannett Flemming has also graciously offered to sponsor everyone's first drink! 

Student Poster Presentations

We encourage students to display and present posters featuring their work at the meeting. Posters are the highlight of the night for everyone and an excellent opportunity for students to interact with prospective employers. The first eight students who sign up and display posters will be awarded $50. Attendees of the meeting will vote on the best poster, and the Best Poster winner will receive an additional $100. Students who would like to present a poster only need to send an email to Matt Buche (mbuche@gfnet.com) with their poster’s title (working title is OK).  

H. Ray Taber AEG Founders Scholarships

Because of the generosity of the H. Ray Taber Foundation (https://raytaberfoundation.org/), we are able to offer larger student scholarships this year: a $3,000 undergraduate scholarship and a $5,000 graduate scholarship. In addition to their check, finalists will be presented with a framed certificate and a rock hammer. Scholarship application materials are posted on the AEG Sacramento Chapter website (https://www.aegsacto.wordpress.com/students). The scholarship application deadline is Monday, April 17th at 5:00 pm.

Applicants must be currently enrolled in one of the following four-year universities:
CSU Chico, CSU Sacramento, UC Davis, Univ. of Pacific, CSU Fresno, CSU Stanislaus, UC Merced

Meeting reservation details and scholarship applications materials are available at:
https://aegsacto.wordpress.com/students/

Sponsorship Opportunities

We will not be requesting sponsorships this year due to the generosity of the Taber Foundation. However, please let us know if you would like to sponsor a future AEG event or meeting! 

Thank you to our 2023 Student Night first drink sponsor!