Lecture 13 (12/2)
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Lecture 13 (12/2)
Job Opportunities
for Meteorologists
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What Can I Do With A Degree?
Four main classifications of career opportunities:
• Applied meteorology (non-media)
• Non-university Research
• University Teaching and Research
• Media Weathercasting
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Applied Meteorology
• Most common career for meteorologists• Weather forecasting – most common and
well known• Forecasting opportunities exist in public,
military, private sector (industrial and commercial), and aviation
• Not typically a 9 to 5 job (shiftwork is required)
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Public forecasting
• NWS-issue watches, warnings, zone forecasts, etc.
• Good benefits (working for the government)
• Training programs
• Potential for advancement if you’re good (and especially if you get a master’s degree)
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Military Forecasting• All army and air force support is provided by
meteorologists in the air force• If you might be interested in this, talk to a
recruiter (you can enter as an officer with your degree or they will pay $ for your education).
• Mostly forecast for aviation, but also for army ops, special ops, top secret stuff
• May involve time away from family and getting assignments rather than deciding your own future
• Often sent to grad school for a masters
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Private Sector Forecasting
• These places offer detailed, special forecasts to many different types of users
• Users may include: utility companies, farmers and ranchers, ocean shipping firms and port operators, and highway depts.
• Usually work for smaller company (usually some shiftwork required but not always)
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Aviation Forecasting
• Larger airlines (passenger and cargo) have their own meteorology departments.
• But a lot of aviation forecasting is done by the NWS and commercial weather firms.
• Services provided may include: terminal and en route forecasts, automated computer-generated flight plans, etc.
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Consulting
• You can throw about anything under this category.• Almost any type of meteorological service
provided to a client. • Can deal with specialized environmental services
(especially air quality)• Development of meteorological software and
weather information systems• Forensic meteorology (application of
meteorological expertise to legal matters and police investigations)
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Air Quality Meteorology• Booming business and can mean good $• Broad range of technical areas including:
environmental assessments and permitting, dispersion modeling (pollutant concentrations), risk assessments, measuring air pollutant concentrations and meteorological parameters, and specialized studies such as photochemical modeling, acid rain, and global warming.
• Work with polluters to help them follow the federal and state laws.
• Involves chemistry too
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Forensic Meteorology
• Addresses application of meteorological expertise to legal matters and police investigations
• May range from people slipping on ice and breaking bones--to robberies or massive car pile ups
• Lots of other neat stuff possible
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Other Applied Metrology Jobs
• Marketing and sales – a companies revenue may depend a lot on the weather (need to know about more than just the weather)
• Energy companies & weather derivative trading (involves economics too)
• Derivative = insurance against something happening like low snow fall in a year at a ski slope, warmer than normal winter for energy companies, or a hard freeze that destroys crops.
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A Couple More
• Atmospheric measurements and instrumentation
• Deals with developing better weather instruments, manufacturing them, and monitoring them.
• Software and Information Systems – Develop & maintain metrological software, work with modeling, networks, etc.
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Non-university Research
• Usually requires at least a masters degree• No teaching• Divided between applied research and basic
research• Applied research =deals with weather and climate
observation, analysis, and forecasting. • Research you can apply to everyday activities and
operations.• Ex: forecast techniques,forecast verification
methods, & case studies
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Basic Research
• Addresses more fundamental atmospheric processes
• Ex: formation of clouds and precipitation, air-sea interactions, radiation budgets, aerosol transport, thermodynamics, and global general circulation.
• Basic research often support advances in numerical weather prediction models.
• Still a flood of unanswered questions: effects of Global warming, what makes a thunderstorm tornado, etc.
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University Teaching and Research
• Requires a Ph.D• Hold faculty position at university or college • Professors usually do research supported by
government or foundation grants• Most of the research is basic research• Meteorology is seldom, if ever, taught as a stand-
alone subject at the elementary and secondary school levels. Usually integrated into physical science
• If you want to teach below the university level, need to be a a physics, earth, or general science teacher
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Media Weather Casting
• Broadcast meteorology• Weather casting for television, radio, and
newspapers• Highest profile of all careers in meteorology• Ranges from celebrity-type positions at major
networks and cable channels to part-time, relatively obscure jobs at small-market stations.
• Generally starts small, but can improve rapidly
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More on Broadcast Metr
• A lot of "behind-the-scenes" effort put forth by private meteorological firms (graphics software, other special tools)
• A strong theoretical background in meteorology is a necessity, forecast experience is highly useful, and computer competence is helpful.
• Strong communication skills are essential, in terms of both oral and written communication.
• Can also be a radio broadcast metr (thru phone lines you can get studio quality sound)
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Final note on Broadcast Metr
• Tough business – can succeed fantastically or lose your shirt
• You’re famous – good and bad• Can’t get drunk at the local bar• Often go to elementary schools and give
talks to the kiddos• Salary range 17K to 1 million +• You should be able to get a job if you want
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So How Much Ya Gonna Pay Me?
• Starting salaries range from low 20’s to high 20’s (higher with masters or PhD)
• NWS = advance faster, mid 30’s after a year or two
• Within 5 to 7 years 40K-70K
• Many jobs top out in 70-100K range
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More on the Money
• Professors make between mid 40’s (assistant) and mid 80’s (full)
• A master’s or Ph.D. increases your earnings potential
• Always try to make your credentials better (AMS Seal of Approval, Certified Consulting Meteorologist (CCM), etc.)
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Web sites for job-seekers(bookmark these puppies on your home computer)
Nonbroadcast linkshttp://www.ametsoc.org/AMShttp://www.nwas.org/jobs.html http://www.earthworks-jobs.com/clim.htm or http://www.earthworks-jobs.com
http://mrd3.nssl.ucar.edu/~dob/www/jobs.htmlhttp://www.noaa.gov/jobs.html http://www.met.psu.edu/Jobs/jobs/index.html http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/a9noaa.htm or http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/ http://unr.edu/homepage/daved/jobs.html#met (links to many companies)http://libwww.syr.edu/research/internet/earth/jobs.html#Job http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Met-Jobs/ http://www.ujobbank.com/ http://libwww.syr.edu/research/internet/earth/jobs.html Broadcast links (you have to pay to post a resume/tape)http://www.medialine.com/ or http://tvjobs.com/ If you wanna go to grad schoolhttp://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/curricula/index.html
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For next time:
• Read last chapter (The Future of Earth)
• Burn your book