2010 Green Jobs Forecast
by Jennifer McAlpine
Career Link LMI Specialist
Here’s some great news for job seekers - whether you already have environmental career experience or are thinking of making the switch to a career that’s forecasted to show tremendous growth in the near future: Environment Careers Organization (ECO) of Canada has just released their list of the hottest, most interesting and most in demand environmental jobs for 2010. This is an excellent time to learn about environmental careers you may be interested in and a few more that you may not even know about. These occupations form the core of the majority of the work conducted in the environment today and are the most in demand:
1. Environmental Engineer
Plan, design, and supervise new advancements in environmental protection and conservation using scientific and mathematic principles.
2. Environmental Technician/Technologist
Use technical skills and scientific knowledge doing hands-on work to assess, clean up, and protect the environment.
3. Remediation Specialist
Design and implement remedial action plans to clean up sites affected by substances such as automotive fuels, pesticides, and heavy metals.
4. Air Quality Technician/Technologist
Monitor, assess, and report on ambient air quality in both urban and rural areas, as well as air quality in environmental emergency situations such as fires or chemical spills.
5. Hydrologist
Hydrologists study the dynamic nature of water, for example the forces that cause water to move in the environment and what effects this movement has.
The following are some unique and exciting occupations emerging out of core areas of the environment:
1. Avalanche Forecaster
Combine skills in mountaineering with knowledge of mountain conditions, weather, and snow science to evaluate the risk of avalanches in a given area.
2. Environmental Epidemiologist
Assessing the health status of the population and monitoring the presence of communicable or chronic disease derived from environmental toxins and hazards.
3. Glaciologist
Analyze how glaciers and ice caps move and change in response to climate change and how these changes in turn influence climate and the surrounding environment.
4. Remote Sensing Technologist
Use aerial photos, imaging radar, digital image analysis, and Global Information Systems (GIS) to study the Earth's surface.
5. Sustainable Architect
Oversee the design and construction of buildings with a focus on the role a structure will play in its environment.
To view the remaining top 5 “Hottest ECO Jobs”, click here.
