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What's Physical Geology & Cultural Geography?

  • 07-07-2017 8:22pm
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    Fathom
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    What's the relationship between physical geology and cultural geography? Similarities? Differences? Robert Thorson Metaphor: “If physical geography is the house in which regional culture makes it home, then geology is its foundation, plumbing, and wiring.” If you minored (4-year degree program) in Cultural Geography, what's the value occupationally?


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  • #2
    mzungu
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    Fathom wrote: »
    What's the relationship between physical geology and cultural geography? Similarities? Differences? Robert Thorson Metaphor: “If physical geography is the house in which regional culture makes it home, then geology is its foundation, plumbing, and wiring.”

    If you minored (4-year degree program) in Cultural Geography, what's the value occupationally?

    According to this prospectus "Cultural geography careers include geography education at many levels, analyst, consultant and planner". It guess it all depends on what the demand for such roles is in any given country.


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    Black Swan
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    Physical geology has high paying career potential in the oil and gas industries, which have been encouraged recently by the current presidential administration and Republican controlled Congress.


  • #4
    Fathom
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    EROS hiring geologists.


  • #5
    Black Swan
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    Fathom wrote: »
    EROS hiring geologists.
    Student and Post Doctorate Opportunities.


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    Fathom
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    Black Swan wrote: »
    Student and Post Doctorate Opportunities.
    Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship The 2018 application will be available in September. 120 undergraduate students per year receive tuition support & paid summer internships with NOAA across the country. 75% of NOAA Undergraduate Scholarship Alumni go to graduate school.


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  • #7
    Black Swan
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    95 alumni have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.


  • #8
    Fathom
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    Requested application.


  • #9
    Black Swan
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    Fathom wrote: »
    Requested application.
    Good move Fathom, and methinks that you should have no problems getting the necessary letters of good reference. So good luck.


  • #10
    mzungu
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    Fathom wrote: »
    Requested application.

    The very best of luck Fathom. :)


  • #11
    Fathom
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    Combining physical & cultural geography and remote sensing.


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  • #12
    Black Swan
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    If your proposed research may entail how remote sensed (EROS) physical and cultural geography may be affected by global warming, it might be best not to mention global warming, rather describe it using other terms, as global warming has been adversely politicised by the current Trump administration, which in turn may affect internship, scholarship, and grant eligibility.


  • #13
    Fathom
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    "Global warming" noted.


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