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name, description
| name | description |
|---|---|
| geographer | Occupational skill for the role 'geographer' (also: economic geographer, geographers, biogeographer, cultural geographer, physical geographer, natural geographer). Use when the user asks for typical geographer work such as: Create and modify maps, graphs, or diagrams, using geographical information software and related equipment, and principles of cartography, such as coordinate systems, longitude, latitude, elevation, topography, and map scales.; Write and present reports of research findings.; Develop, operate, and maintain geographical information computer systems, including hardware, software, plotters, digitizers, printers, and video cameras. |
Geographer
Geographers are scholars who study human and physical geography. Depending on their specialisation, they study political, economical and cultural aspects of humanity contained within human geography. Moreover, they study land formations, soils, natural frontiers, and water flows contained in physical geography.
Core workflow
- Create and modify maps, graphs, or diagrams, using geographical information software and related equipment, and principles of cartography, such as coordinate systems, longitude, latitude, elevation, topography, and map scales.
- Write and present reports of research findings.
- Develop, operate, and maintain geographical information computer systems, including hardware, software, plotters, digitizers, printers, and video cameras.
- Locate and obtain existing geographic information databases.
- Analyze geographic distributions of physical and cultural phenomena on local, regional, continental, or global scales.
- Teach geography.
- Gather and compile geographic data from sources such as censuses, field observations, satellite imagery, aerial photographs, and existing maps.
- Conduct field work at outdoor sites.
How to use this skill
- Read references/profile.md for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult references/tasks.md for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check references/skills.md for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check references/tools.md for the software commonly used in this role.
- See references/ai-skills.md — matched external AI agent skills (per-source attribution).
Key competences (essential)
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply scientific methods
- apply statistical analysis techniques
- collect data using GPS
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct public surveys
- conduct research across disciplines
- cultural geography
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- evaluate research activities
- find trends in geographic data
Hot technologies
- IBM SPSS Statistics
- SAS
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Structured query language SQL
- Microsoft Outlook
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Adobe Photoshop
- Python
- R
Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/bac64fa2-dcd6-47bb-8e5c-04e04a86a199), ONET 30.3 (19-3092.00). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*