Geographical Vocations + Skills Flashcards
EAR vocations
Park ranger/tour guide/wildlife enforcement officer
Environmental scientist
Water quality officer
UPs vocations
Landscape architect
City planner
Demographer/population analyst
PEA vocations
Farmer
Agricultural specialist
Landscapers
Geotechnical engineer
PARK RANGER
responsible for conducting tours, keeping areas clean, enforcing rules, etc
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST
conducts research to prevent or eliminate dangers to the environment or public health (e.g. air/water pollution), developing plans and working with policymakers to pass legislation to keep community/environment safe
WATER QUALITY OFFICER
water testing, plan, manage and design coastal, stormwater and floodplain management infrastructure - including built and natural form assets
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
use knowledge of design and the natural world to create outdoor spaces like parks, campuses and other public places: measuring and analysing spaces to create designs using digital software
CITY PLANNER - including primary/secondary data use
looking at sun path diagrams (primary and secondary) to show shadows buildings cast at different times of the year; determining access to sunlight and how much buildings gets to optimise amount of time for sun → won’t need to use artificial heating → more ecologically sustainable
POPULATION ANALYST / DEMOGRAPHER
using population pyramids - methods for analysing fertility, mortality, migration and population compositions
advise govts where to spend money + resources on
FARMER / AGRICULTURAL SPECIALIST
analysing global and local trends, and then linked with skills: local relief, aspect, gradient - to optimise efficient operations for maximum/optimal production
LANDSCAPER
optimise shape/function of economic activity; reason: more economical especially in viticulture - shape of vines
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER
consulting and supervising construction of an effluent pond for agriculture (requires soil testing, needs to have a high % of clay for pond to seal)
GEOLOGIST
scholar who studies the earth in its liquid and solid matters - includes the study of the origin and movement of ground water, rock ages and formation/classification of fossils
IMPORTANT: professionally employed in mining sites to search for precious material such as metals, oil or other earth resources
CITY PLANNER
develop new land use plans
help revitalise facilities that have become run-down, bringing new life to communities in need (urban renewal)
CARTOGRAPHER
map-making
PRIMARY FIELDWORK (GROUP 1)
These ones are a bit harder to link to vocations
Clinometer - measures angle of a slope
Barometer - measures air pressure
Anemometer - wind direction
Hygrometer - humidity
Hydrometer - humidity i.e. water vapour in soil and air
Speedometer - speed
Air flow meter - mass flow rate of air
Compass - measures direction
Sound meter - amount of sound i.e sound pressure level
Link ecosystem at risk to vocation to primary fieldwork
Coastal dunes
Environmental scientist
soil pH testing - identify problem areas thus direct govts and volunteer groups where to best revegetate - high alkaline pH levels in hind dunes indicate effects of washovers and salt spray on more vulnerable tertiary vegetation
Photographing dunes with high foot traffic - enforcing fencing rules
Recommend ONE primary and ONE secondary geographical method that could be used to assist one geographical vocation in the management of an ecosystem at risk. (4 marks)
Constructing a vegetation transect of a coastal dune - which places would need to require more revegetation (i.e. more vulnerable)
Analysing historical photographs - education of stakeholders in showing the public what teams are currently doing and the progress that they are making and for public cooperation
Making comments on validity
Source of information (is it valid/trustworthy and why?)
When was it made/available? Is this recent?
Is the form of information transmission suitable for the particular type of data? e.g. wind roses for wind direction + speed
Making comments on reliability
How many measurements are there?
How long was the time frame?
Are the results consistent?
Making comments on usefulness
Does it relate to purpose of focus question?
Does it fully or partially answer the question?
What vocations can use this?
When there’s soil…
Soil testing kit:
Soil probe - temperature of soil
Infiltrometer - device used to measure the rate of water infiltration into soil
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST PRIMARY FIELDWORK
Refractometer - water salinity
Soil pH testing
Primary fieldwork to do with people
Surveying
Interviewing
Questionnaire
