Day: February 7, 2012

New Book — Practicing Geography: Careers for Enhancing Society and the Environment

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Practicing Geography Whether you are just beginning as a major, taking classes toward a GIS certificate, working on an advanced degree, or considering a career change, geography can lead to exceptional career opportunities.

Practicing Geography is about making the most of these opportunities. Geographers are in demand in business, government, nonprofit and education sectors for the range of knowledge, abilities and skills they bring to their work. The book addresses how to explore, prepare, and advance in your career and how to deal with related challenges you will face in your work and life.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface: A World of Opportunity: Discovering and Managing Careers in Geography, Michael Solem, Kenneth Foote, and Janice Monk

SECTION I: Preparing for a Career in Business, Government, and Nonprofit Organizations
Chapter 1: Part Strategy and Serendipity: A Candid Guide to Career Planning for Geographers, Alyson L. Greiner and Thomas A. Wikle
Chapter 2: Geography Education and Career Readiness, Joy K. Adams, Niem Tu Huynh, Joseph J. Kerski, and G. Brent Hall
Chapter 3: Switching Sectors: Transitioning into and among Business, Government, and Nonprofit Careers, Joy K. Adams
Chapter 4: The Value of An Internship Experience For Early Career Geographers, R. Denise Blanchard, Mark L. Carter, Robert B. Kent, Christopher A. Badurek
Chapter 5: Professional Networking, Tina Cary

SECTION II: Understanding Career Opportunities
Chapter 6: Geography Careers in State and Local Government, William M. Bass and Richard D. Quodomine
Chapter 7: Emerging and Expanding Career Opportunities in the Federal Government, Allison M. Williams, Molly E. Brown, Erin Moriarty, and John A. Wertman
Chapter 8: Geography Careers in Large Businesses and Corporations, Amy J. Blatt and Michael F. Ziolkowski
Chapter 9: Geography and the Nonprofit Sector, Lia D. Shimada and Jeremy Tasch
Chapter 10: Starting a Small Geography Business, Kelsey Brain
Chapter 11: Going Global: Practicing Geography Internationally, Carrie Mitchell and Mélanie Robertson
Chapter 12: Teaching Geography Inside and Outside the Classroom, Susan M. Heffron
Chapter 13: Geography Careers in Consulting, Susanne C. Moser and Angela J. Donelson

SECTION III: Achieving Career Satisfaction Now and Into the Future
Chapter 14: “Work” and “Life”: Crossing Boundaries of Time, Space, and Place, Janice Monk
Chapter 15: Practical Ethics for Professional Geographers, Francis Harvey
Chapter 16: Creating the Life You Want: Lifelong Professional Development for Geographers, Pauline E. Kneale and Larch Maxey

This book also introduces you to dozens of geographers applying their knowledge, skills and perspectives in communities, businesses, government agencies and nonprofit organizations both domestically and internationally. These profiles highlight the diversity of geography and geographers and show in practical terms the decisions real people make about their work and careers.

As a supplement to this book, additional profiles and career resources are available at www.aag.org/careers.

You can order your copy of Practicing Geography at www.pearsonhighered.com

Spatio-temporal Analysis of Groundwater Resource using GIS: A Case Study of Murshidabad District, West Bengal, India

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Golden Research ThoughtsGolden Research Thoughts, Volume I, Issue VIII, February 2012

Debabrata Mondal

“In modern time, Geographic Information System (GIS) has been considered as a powerful tool in mapping of ground water resources. The study area Murshidabad district has experienced a remarkable change in ground water table throughout the decades. The present paper is an attempt to evaluate the decadal trend of ground water fluctuation in several blocks of the district along with their possible causes by using the data from secondary sources and processed them through GIS software.

“Groundwater is the only reliable water resource for domestic, as well as for agriculture practice in those countries where rainfall is erratic. Since the country of India has its economic base lying on agricultural sector, a major emphasis has been given to accelerate the agricultural production without concerning the environmental issues for feeding its huge population. From the last few decades gradual depletion of groundwater supplies as a consequence of continued population growth and initiation of Boro cultivation over the Gangetic moribund delta has now been considered as an emerging problem. Now a day’s Murshidabad district is also facing this invisible hazard of groundwater depletion. In this regard monitoring, analyzing of groundwater is necessary for assessing its quantity.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     “Ground water fluctuation map is an important tool for analyzing the temporal as well as spatial changing pattern of groundwater resources. In this regard Geographic Information System (GIS) plays a crucial role for analyzing, model building and interpreting the groundwater data. In order to obtain long term groundwater information, GIS has been used in this study to visually and spatially analyze groundwater data.”