Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health

Conduct research or perform investigation for the purpose of identifying, abating, or eliminating sources of pollutants or hazards that affect either the environment or public health. Using knowledge of various scientific disciplines, may collect, synthesize, study, report, and recommend action based on data derived from measurements or observations of air, food, soil, water, and other sources.

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Third Interest High-Point

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

First Interest High-Point

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Second Interest High-Point

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed

Provide scientific or technical guidance, support, coordination, or oversight to governmental agencies, environmental programs, industry, or the public.

Review and implement environmental technical standards, guidelines, policies, and formal regulations that meet all appropriate requirements.

Collect, synthesize, analyze, manage, and report environmental data, such as pollution emission measurements, atmospheric monitoring measurements, meteorological or mineralogical information, or soil or water samples.

Communicate scientific or technical information to the public, organizations, or internal audiences through oral briefings, written documents, workshops, conferences, training sessions, or public hearings.

Provide advice on proper standards and regulations or the development of policies, strategies, or codes of practice for environmental management.

Prepare charts or graphs from data samples, providing summary information on the environmental relevance of the data.

Conduct environmental audits or inspections or investigations of violations.

Monitor effects of pollution or land degradation and recommend means of prevention or control.

Design or direct studies to obtain technical environmental information about planned projects.

Analyze data to determine validity, quality, and scientific significance and to interpret correlations between human activities and environmental effects.

Develop the technical portions of legal documents, administrative orders, or consent decrees.

Evaluate violations or problems discovered during inspections to determine appropriate regulatory actions or to provide advice on the development and prosecution of regulatory cases.

Develop methods to minimize the impact of production processes on the environment, based on the study and assessment of industrial production, environmental legislation, and physical, biological, and social environments.

Determine data collection methods to be employed in research projects or surveys.

Process and review environmental permits, licenses, or related materials.

Supervise or train students, environmental technologists, technicians, or other related staff.

Plan or develop research models, using knowledge of mathematical and statistical concepts.

Investigate and report on accidents affecting the environment.

Conduct applied research on environmental topics, such as waste control or treatment or pollution abatement methods.

Monitor environmental impacts of development activities.

Research sources of pollution to determine their effects on the environment and to develop theories or methods of pollution abatement or control.

Develop programs designed to obtain the most productive, non-damaging use of land.

Aerosol spectrometers

Air quality dataloggers

Air/soil temperature sensors

Airboats

All terrain vehicles ATV

Ambient air quality monitoring systems

Ammonia meters

Analog survey meters

Anemometers

Atmospheric deposition collectors

Automatic samplers

Bailers

Bomb samplers

Bottom dredge samplers

Carbon monoxide meters

Chlorine dioxide meters

Chlorine meters

Closed pipe Doppler water flow meters

Coliform testing systems

Colorimeters

Combustible gas monitors

Comparator water test kits

Core samplers

Dataloggers

Depth meters

Desktop computers

Digital cameras

Digital survey meters

Dosimeters

Drop count industrial water test kits

Electromagnetic field EMF meters

Evaporation gauge sensors

Explosimeters

Fiberglass metering manholes

Field radiological measuring devices

Fuel temperature sensors

Gas chromatographs GC

Gas spillage detectors

Geiger-Mueller meters

Global positioning system GPS receivers

Groundwater monitoring systems

Hand held augers

Heat stress monitors

HNu photoionization detectors PID

Ionization chambers

Lead air sampling kits

Lead water sampling kits

Liquid samplers

Mainframe computers

Manometers

Mass spectrometers

Mercury monitors

Moisture meters

Multichannel analyzers

Multiparameter water quality instruments

Nephelometers

Noise dosimeters

Notebook computers

Oil water interface meters

Ozone meters

Particulate samplers

Personal computers

pH meters

Photoionization detectors PID

Pocket personal computers PC

Psychrometers

Radon monitors

Rain water samplers

Scintillation counters

Scintillation probes

Smoke generators

Soil analysis kits

Soil gas sampling systems

Soil probes

Sound level meters

Spectrophotometers

Stormwater samplers

Submersible water data loggers

Toxic mold test kits

Turbidimeters

Viscosity meters

Water quality testing photometers

Water velocity flow meters

ADMS pollution modeling software

Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator

Autodesk AutoCAD

Bentley MicroStation

CAP88-PC

CERC EMIT

Chemical management tracking software

Chemicals and Irrigation CANDI

Compass software

Corel CorelDraw Graphics Suite

Database software

DataPipe EHS

DQO ELIPGRID-PC

EarthSoft EQuIS Geology

Ecotech WinAQMS

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Senior Environmental Scientist

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James Schuette

Senior Environmental Scientist

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James Schuette

Senior Environmental Scientist

Milestones

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Environment & Nature

Science

Upholding a Cause and Belief

Day to Day

Advice for Getting Started

Recommended Education

My career is not related to what I studied. I'd recommend this path instead:

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