Geographer

Geography as a discipline has evolved in many years and helps us in understanding the world. It studies the land, its features and the inhabitants. Not only geography as such offers good career options it is a good stepping stone for many related careers.

What do geographers do?

Geographers are people who study the earth’s natural environment. Their scope is not just limited to making maps but stretches much beyond that. They study environment and human society and effects of human society on environment. They are the backbone of Geographic information systems. They study climate and natural phenomena like cyclones, storms, rain, land and oceans and about the earth’s resources. They study weather and seasons and are involved in global monitoring of environment and weather forecasting. Geographers are also involved in urban planning, environmental planning and monitoring.

Geographers specialize in various fields like Economic Geography, Cultural Geography, Environment Control, Political Geography, and Natural Resources. You can also specialize in Cartography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Geo-morphology, Meteorology, Climatology, Remote sensing, and other related areas.

Geographers do a lot of research work and field work. As per specialization geographers work as cartographers, climatologist, Geographic Information system specialist, environmental analyst, urban planner, Remote sensing specialist etc.