Geographers
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Height gauges (Abney levels)
- All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled (All terrain vehicles ATV)
- Anemometers
- Inductively coupled plasma ICP spectrometers (Atomic emission spectroscopes)
- Levels (Automatic levels)
- Transmission electron microscopes (Cathodoluminescence microscopes)
- Power saws (Chain saws)
- Soil testing kits (Compaction meters)
- Conductivity meters
- Forestry saws (Crosscut saws)
- Ion exchange apparatus (Deionizers)
- Electromagnetic geophysical instruments (Demagnetizing equipment)
- Desktop computers
- Digital cameras
- Videoscopes (Digital imaging microscopes)
- Digital camcorders or video cameras (Digital video cameras)
- Scanners (Digitizers)
- Dissolved oxygen meters
- Drying cabinets or ovens (Drying ovens)
- Soil core sampling apparatus (Dutch augers)
- Electromagnetic field meters (Electromagnetic current meters)
- Laboratory balances (Electronic precision balances)
- Scanners (Flatbed scanners)
- Flow sensors (Flow meters)
- All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled (Four wheel drive 4WD vehicles)
- Fume hoods or cupboards (Fume hoods)
- Laboratory box furnaces (Gas-mixing furnaces)
- Global positioning system receivers (Global positioning system GPS devices)
- Soil core sampling apparatus (Grab samplers)
- Laboratory mechanical convection ovens (Gravity convection ovens)
- Radarbased surveillance systems (Ground penetrating radar GPR)
- Portable data input terminals (Handheld data loggers)
- Laboratory box furnaces (High temperature laboratory box furnaces)
- Benchtop centrifuges (High-speed centrifuges)
- Soil core sampling apparatus (Hiller corers)
- Hygrometers (Humidity sensors)
- Hydrometers
- Heat tracing equipment (Infrared IR thermometers)
- Ion chromatographs
- Analytical balances (Laboratory analytical balances)
- Dropping pipettes (Laboratory dropping pipettes)
- Laboratory crushers or pulverizers (Laboratory sample splitters)
- Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
- Laser printers (Large format printers)
- Levels (Laser levels)
- Particle size measuring apparatus (Laser particle sizers)
- Soil core sampling apparatus (Livingstone corers)
- Precipitation or evaporation recorders (Lysimeters)
- Voltage or current meters (Mechanical current meters)
- Laboratory box furnaces (Muffle furnaces)
- Comparators (Optical comparators)
- Personal computers
- Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers (Personal digital assistants PDA)
- Polarizing microscopes (Petrographic microscopes)
- pH meters (pH analyzers)
- Darkfield microscopes (Phase contrast microscopes)
- Solar radiation surface observing apparatus (Photosynthetically active radiation PAR meters)
- Plotter printers (Plotters)
- Polarizing microscopes
- Portable data input terminals (Portable data collectors)
- Fume hoods or cupboards (Portable fume hoods)
- Weather stations (Portable weather stations)
- Pneumatic rock drills (Powered rock-coring drills)
- Soil core sampling apparatus (Powered vibracorers)
- Permeability or porosity estimation apparatus (Pressure plate apparatus)
- Recreational motorboats (Research motorboats)
- Rock cutters (Rock saws)
- Soil core sampling apparatus (Russian corers)
- Salinity meter (Salinity meters)
- General purpose refrigerators or refrigerator freezers (Sample storage refrigerators)
- Scanning electron microscopes (Scanning electron microscopes SEM)
- Soil core sampling apparatus (Sediment coring equipment)
- Water samplers (Sediment samplers)
- Water samplers (Sediment traps)
- Portable seismic apparatus (Seismic stations)
- Laboratory sifting equipment (Sieve shakers)
- Laboratory mixers (Soil mixers)
- Moisture meters (Soil moisture meters)
- Soil core sampling apparatus (Soil samplers)
- Anemometers (Sonic anemometers)
- Laboratory sifting equipment (Sonic sifters)
- Magnetometer geophysical instruments (Spinner magnetometers)
- Stereo or dissecting light microscopes (Stereo light microscopes)
- Stereo or dissecting light microscopes (Stereo zoom microscopes)
- Stereo or dissecting light microscopes (Stereographic microscopes)
- Pressure indicators (Submersible pressure sensors)
- Height gauges (Survey altimeters)
- Tablet computers
- Temperature transmitters (Temperature sensors)
- Theodolites
- Water samplers (Total dissolved solids TDS meters)
- Theodolites (Total stations)
- Forestry increment borers (Tree increment borers)
- Land drilling rigs (Truck-mounted drilling rigs)
- Turbidimeters (Turbidity probes)
- Test sieves (Ultrasonic sieving systems)
- Hand held camcorders or video cameras (Video cameras)
- Video attachments for microscopes (Video microscopes)
- Open stream current meters (Water current meters)
- Water samplers
- Anemometers (Wind direction sensors)
- X ray diffraction equipment
- X ray diffraction equipment (X ray diffractometers)
Technologies Include:
- Analytical or scientific software
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- MODPATH
- Groundwater Vistas software
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Systat Software SigmaPlot
- HydroSOLVE AQTESOLV software
- SPSS software
- SAS software
- RockWare MODFLOW
- Pattern searching software
- Minitab software
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD software
- Data base user interface and query software
- Scientific Software Group RiverMorph
- Graphics or photo imaging software
- Lemkesoft GraphicConverter
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop software
- Corel CorelDraw Graphics Suite
- Golden Software Grapher
- ACD Systems Canvas
- Internet browser software
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Map creation software
- MapInfo MapMarker
- Martin D Adamiker's TruFlite
- ITT Visual Information Solutions ENVI
- Golden Software Surfer
- Geographic resources analysis support system GRASS* software
- ESRI ArcView
- ESRI ArcInfo
- ESRI ArcIMS
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Clark Labs IDRISI Andes
- Caliper Maptitude
- Trimble Pathfinder Office
- Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Web page creation and editing software
- Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
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