Job Summaries:
The Powerful Geography 'Job Summaries' below show how geography is embedded in a vast array of jobs delinated by content domains. Each includes a brief overview, geographers at work, recommended college courses, and the skills needed. We hope that you can refer to these during a geography, science, or social studies lesson to show your students how geography is so important in our everyday lives and that they too can become "geographers" no matter what their aspirations may be.
*Please note that having just a geography degree does not mean you are qualified for these jobs and can get this job, as there are other degrees and skills required*
Environment and Society
Agricultural Science Technician
Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers
Environmental Compliance Inspector
Environmental Health and Safety Specialists
Environmental Restoration Planner
Environmental Science and Protection Technician
Power Plant Operators, Distributors & Dispatchers
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Scenarios:
Here are a variety of one-pagers that are not necessarily jobs, but more of scenarios or situations where geographic knowledge would come in handy.