Geographer
Job Summary and Qualifications
Would you be interested in:
Developing expertise in mapping and map design used to guide over 200,000 enumerators in collecting Census information
- Preparing the highly specialized maps and files of geographic data for the Census
- Analyzing data to provide critical, up-to-date information for geographic publications
- Working on our nationwide cartographic and geographic data bases called TIGER
- Planning and monitoring field operations that involve recording and mapping millions of addresses across rural America, as well as updating maps and delivering questionnaires to millions of houses
- Planning and monitoring field operations that involve updating maps and lists of addresses for thousands of jurisdictions across urban America
- Writing instructions and training packages used by thousands of field supervisors and hundreds of thousands of field staff nationwide.
What you need to know:
Their background includes 24 semester / 35 quarter hours in geography or related fields similar to those listed below. Cartographers usually possess majors in cartography that include 30 semester hours/45 quarter hours in cartography and related sciences such as those listed below of which at least 6, but no more than 15 hours were in mathematics.
- Cartography
- Astronomy
- Photogrammetry
- Physical and Geological Oceanography
- Computer Science
- Land Surveying
- Geophysics
- Physical Geography
- Remote Sensing
- Geology
- Meteorology
- Statistics
- Anthropology
- Urban Studies and Urban Planning
- Geography
- Maps and Map Use
- Economic Geography
- Quantitative Methods in Geography
- Climatology
- Principles of Cartography
- Computer Mapping
- Cultural Geography
- Transportation Networks
- Urban Climates
- Applied Climatology
- Problems in Cartography
- Advance Remote Sensing
- Principles of Map Design
For additional information on becoming a Geographer with the Government, follow
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