Well, judging by what I find on your website, you've found a good way to do interesting things without using mathematics. Maybe image processing would be something for you, for your beautiful photos of old fossils? Unfortunately, I can't stop giving advice 😉

Yes, indeed, student numbers continue to decline, both in the geosciences and in the natural sciences in general, even climate sciences. In times when we have to spend billions on defense, we are looking even more closely at whether we still need this or that.

Actually, I was never good at math either. My salvation was Fortran77 in a course on numerical methods in 1987, and later MATLAB in 1992. For me, a line of computer code is much easier to understand than equations. I started writing "how to ..." files, later became the recipes books.

Fixed – thanks!

Oh yes, absolutely. We had remote sensing specialists trained in geodesy who were told by a geologist that this version of the hyperspectral satellite image showed the volcanoes particularly well. Which volcanoes, asked the geodesists. That's why remote sensing is combined with field courses.

I still had two semesters of paleontology as a compulsory subject, two more semesters as an elective, which had completely disappeared at our university. Traditional field courses that are not consistently linked to remote sensing and digital data collection must also be phased out.