Category: Education
2013 Geography Graduate Program Rankings
About a year ago I posted a ranking of top geography programs based on the NRC survey of U.S. doctoral programs. There were some complaints about the rankings, which I suppose is inevitable. Some expressed concern simply because their program of choice wasn’t included. But, a more legitimate thread of concern came from those who [...]
Postdoctoral Research or Software Engineering Position, Computational Landscape Modeling, University of Colorado, Boulder
Interesting job post appeared in my inbox. Check it out: Postdoctoral Research or Software Engineering Position, Computational Landscape Modeling, University of Colorado, Boulder. Applications are invited for either a post-doctoral researcher with a background in the Earth Sciences and in scientific software development, or a software engineer with experience in geoscience modeling. The successful candidate [...]
Geospatial Career Q&A with Undergraduate Part 4 – Long Term Career Planning
In Part 1, I posted a line of questioning I received from a soon-to-graduate geography major. My response is in 3 parts: (1) summer suggestions, (2) hitting the job market next year, and (3) long-term (3-5 years) career positioning. In Part 2 I provided suggestions for what to do this summer. In Part 3 I cover hitting the job [...]
Geospatial Career Q&A with Undergraduate Part 3 – Hitting the Job Market
In Part 1, I posted a line of questioning I received from a soon-to-graduate geography major. My response is in 3 parts: (1) summer suggestions, (2) hitting the job market next year, and (3) long-term (3-5 years) career positioning. In Part 2 I provided suggestions for what to do this summer and in today’s post I’ll [...]
Geospatial Career Q&A with Undergraduate Part 2 – Summer Suggestions
In Part 1, I posted a line of questioning I received from a soon-to-graduate geography major. You’ll want to go back and read Part 1 if you haven’t already because otherwise my response may not make sense. My response is in 3 parts: (1) summer suggestions, (2) hitting the job market next year, and (3) [...]
Top Geography Departments – Spring 2012 Survey Results
I didn’t receive as many survey responses as I’d hoped but as the academic year comes to an end it feels like an appropriate time to post the Top Geography Department survey results. If you’re interested in participating, the survey is still available. As noted in the preliminary survey results post, there are significant differences [...]
Geospatial Career Q&A with Undergraduate
I recently received the following email from a student nearing graduation with a bachelor’s degree and seeking geospatial career advice. Mr. Holman, You’re obviously a busy guy, so I’ll try not to make this too protracted. I just wanted to say “thank you” for writing your blog.The perspective you have as someone versed in both [...]
Summer Ideas for the Young and Broke
For college students or recent graduates who are reading my blog posts on Spatial Careers and trying to figure out how to use their summer months productively, I would recommend reading the advice below from James Altucher. This is quoted from a recent blog post with several different questions that he received during his regular Thursday [...]
Geospatial Database Administrator
This is my sixth post in the Spatial Career series. In previous posts I’ve written about how to prepare for a career as a GIS Software Developer, as a Geospatial Analyst, as a Cartography/Visualization Specialist, a Geographic Information Scientist and a Spatial Statistician. In this post I will describe how to prepare for a [...]
Spatial Career Guide is now Required Reading at USC
I was mentioned on Twitter because my post on GIS Software Developer career preparation as part of the Spatial Career series is now required reading for a graduate level GIS class at the University of Southern California. I thought this was pretty cool. I think my PhD advisor was hoping my contribution to the discipline would [...]
