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Geography is the intersection between humans and their environment. 通过研究课题 ranging from climate change to globalization — including gender and cultural issues — geographers engage a wide range of tools that prepare students for the modern global 就业市场.
地理工作
- 地理空间分析
- 文化资源管理员
- 环境执法人员
- 城市规划师
- Geographic information system manager
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Geography Degree Leads to Undersea Mapping Career with Navy
A prestigious two-year scholarship that 斯图尔特布 earned while studying geography at the 十大彩票网投平台 obligated her to two years’ work for the U.S. 部门 毕业后的国防.
Stewart became a physical scientist with the Naval Oceanographic Office. 那两年 term has extended to five, and counting. “我热爱我的工作，”她说.
She periodically goes to sea aboard one of the Navy’s six T-AGS oceanographic survey 船只. She uses sonar and other technologies to gather bathymetric data — information 大概在海底. Then, back at her office, “my job is taking this data 让它对舰队有用.” She uses the data to compile navigational charts: maps showing the depths and contours of the bottom and anything resting on it.
Stewart’s family moved a lot when she was young. She noticed how profoundly the differences in location affected their lives — changing the stores where they shopped, for example.
“They say a picture’s worth a thousand words. In my opinion, a map is worth at least 一百万年.”
“Geography is the study of place,” she said. “每件事都有位置.“考虑 how often you call up a map on your smartphone, or search for something “near me.” “They say a picture’s worth a thousand words,” Stewart said. “在我看来，是地图 至少值一百万.”
在南, she participated in a NASA-developed internship and attended academic conferences 作为一名本科生. The earth sciences department and her faculty adviser worked with her in crafting a secondary minor to “make myself more marketable.她结束了 up minoring in geographic information systems and information systems/information 技术.
She regularly returns to campus to speak to introductory students about the surprising variety of geography-related careers. “It’s about how place affects people,” she said. “There’s a joke among geographers that we’re just anthropologists who make maps.”
你知道吗??
- Modern geography is an exciting science producing research of great value to governments, planning agencies and private businesses, especially through geographic information science (GIS) and other new technologies.
- In addition to the core geography courses that majors take, the department offers such electives as geography of tourism, climatology, urban geography, national parks conservation and geography of Alabama.
- Majors have opportunities for intern船只 and study abroad as well as field experience and attendance at national conferences.
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Dr. 卡罗尔·索耶
地理项目协调员
地球科学系
(251) 460-6169
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