Careers News: Spotlight on Geographers
Items featured here include external resources about professional geographers and careers in geography and related fields. To suggest an item, email Joy Adams, Senior Researcher (jadams@aag.org).
Latest News
- New book highlights changing geography of America's jobs
A new book entitled "The New Geography of Jobs," available May 22 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, disects the rapidly evolving landscape of America's jobs. According to the book, by Enrico Moretti, America's new economic map shows growing differences between people and communities.
- Spotlight profile: National Geographic announces 2012 Emerging Explorers
Each year, National Geographic's Emerging Explorers Program recognizes and supports a handful of gifted and inspiring young trailblazers who are already making an impact early in their careers. This year's class includes a cyborg anthropologist, a pilot, a digital storyteller and zoologist, a crisis mapper, and a "guerrilla geographer."
- New advocacy groups campaign for jobless youth
While employers are expected to hire 10.2 percent more college graduates from the class of 2012 than they did from the class of 2011, joblessness among the young remains at crisis levels. Two new advocacy groups - the Campaign for Young America and Fix Young America - aim to create policies and programs to help the unemployed young find full-time jobs.
- Spotlight profile: University of Georgia geography professor John Knox named among the nation's best by Princeton Review
University of Georgia associate professor of geography John Knox was recently named among the nation's top undergraduate teachers in the Princeton Review's "The 300 Best Professors," released April 3. Knox, an AAG member, was the only geography professor included in the book.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics releases first official count of environmentally friendly jobs
For the first time, the federal government last month released an official estimate of the number of green jobs in the U.S. economy. According to the report, which was based on data from 2010, 3.1 million Americans are now employed in jobs that benefit the environment.
- Spotlight profile: Justin Holman, CEO of TerraSeer
Justin Holman is CEO of TerraSeer, where he leads efforts to develop cutting-edge sales forecasting and inventory optimization technology for the automotive aftermarket. In his Spatial Careers blog series, Justin explores six different career paths and gives advice on how undergrads can prepare for each of these trajectories while still in college.
- Spotlight profile: Cryogeographers Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson
This series of short videos features a husband-wife team of researchers who are affiliated with the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University. Ellen Mosley-Thompson received the AAG Cryosphere Specialty Group's Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2012 Annual Meeting.
- Continuing education programs help match jobless with unfilled openings
This article from The New York Times explores how many colleges and universities are tailoring continuing-education courses and programs to match the needs of today's employers.
- Spotlight profile: University of Maine, Farmington geography alums Aaron Dumont, Renee Bogart, Janet Cummings, and David Hediger
The University of Maine, Farmington, website features profiles of selected alumni, including geography majors Aaron Dumont, Renee Bogart, Janet Cummings, and David Hediger, and environmental science majors Camilla Fecteau, Ryan Moore, Tracy Weston Kelly, and Jennifer Cramer.
- Deloitte lists geospatial visualization among 2012 enabler technologies for businesses
Deloitte's annual Tech Trends report recently listed geospatial visualization as one of five "enabler" technologies that have great potential for elevating business performance in 2012. The report claims that forward-thinking organizations should consider developing explicit geospatial visualization strategies.
