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Career Pathways

The Career Pathways page is designed to make it easier for you to find the career that best suits your interests and skills. Here, we will provide a broad overview of each pathway, along with a brief description of each. Each pathway contains numerous careers, and you can explore them by clicking the button located beneath their description. Additionally, you can access a full list of the available careers or use the search icon to quickly locate a specific career that interests you.

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Air Quality:

An air quality specialist is a scientist who tests and analyzes the air quality of a specific environment, such as a factory, power plant, or municipality. As an air quality specialist, your job duties can also involve enforcing regulations for vehicle emissions or factory pollution to maintain air quality standards. To become an air quality specialist, you typically need a bachelor’s degree in a field such as environmental science, biology, or chemistry. Your skills and experience should include the ability to collect samples, analyze data, and perform both simple and complex lab tests on samples. Strong communication skills are also essential in this career. Air quality specialists often work in the field to interview and discuss air quality issues with companies and government officials, along with making presentations or recommendations based on their findings.

Emergency Preparedness & Response:

Emergencies can create a variety of hazards for workers in the impacted area. Preparing before an emergency incident plays a vital role in ensuring that employers and workers have the necessary equipment, know where to go, and know how to keep themselves safe when an emergency occurs. These Emergency Preparedness and Response pages provide information on how to prepare and train for emergencies and the hazards to be aware of when an emergency occurs. The pages provide information for employers and workers across industries, and for workers who will be responding to the emergency.

Energy Technology & Services:

Before a government strategy to address the opportunities and challenges to environmental technology exports can be developed, a common definition of the environmental technology industry must be established. This is particularly important for environmental technologies, since the term could include any permutation of goods and services that might fall under the nebulous category of being environmentally friendly or beneficial. In practice, producers of environmental technologies have a clear definition for their sector. From an industry perspective, environmental technologies are defined as all industrial goods and services that: Foster environmental protection and physical resource efficiency in industrial settings; Generate compliance with environmental regulations; Prevent or mitigate pollution; Manage or reduce waste streams; Remediate contaminated sites; Design, develop and operate environmental infrastructure; and Afford the provision and delivery of environmental resources.

Environmental Information Collection & Analysis:

EHP collects, analyzes, and presents shale gas exposure information that informs frontline communities and empowers them to advocate for ending or mitigating harmful emissions.Our data collection and analysis work includes: Employing the Environmental HealthWatch Model and AirView app in enrolled HealthWatch communities Conducting data reviews and analyses in frontline communities collecting data Performing atmospheric and dispersion modeling in communities with existing or planned shale gas infrastructure Administrating health surveys in enrolled HealthWatch communities

Environmental Labratory Services:

Emergencies can create a variety of hazards for workers in the impacted area. Preparing before an emergency incident plays a vital role in ensuring that employers and workers have the necessary equipment, know where to go, and know how to keep themselves safe when an emergency occurs. These Emergency Preparedness and Response pages provide information on how to prepare and train for emergencies and the hazards to be aware of when an emergency occurs. The pages provide information for employers and workers across industries, and for workers who will be responding to the emergency.

Environmental Site management:

An air quality specialist is a scientist who tests and analyzes the air quality of a specific environment, such as a factory, power plant, or municipality. As an air quality specialist, your job duties can also involve enforcing regulations for vehicle emissions or factory pollution to maintain air quality standards. To become an air quality specialist, you typically need a bachelor’s degree in a field such as environmental science, biology, or chemistry. Your skills and experience should include the ability to collect samples, analyze data, and perform both simple and complex lab tests on samples. Strong communication skills are also essential in this career. Air quality specialists often work in the field to interview and discuss air quality issues with companies and government officials, along with making presentations or recommendations based on their findings.

Natural Resources Management:

Emergencies can create a variety of hazards for workers in the impacted area. Preparing before an emergency incident plays a vital role in ensuring that employers and workers have the necessary equipment, know where to go, and know how to keep themselves safe when an emergency occurs. These Emergency Preparedness and Response pages provide information on how to prepare and train for emergencies and the hazards to be aware of when an emergency occurs. The pages provide information for employers and workers across industries, and for workers who will be responding to the emergency.

Safety & Health:

Before a government strategy to address the opportunities and challenges to environmental technology exports can be developed, a common definition of the environmental technology industry must be established. This is particularly important for environmental technologies, since the term could include any permutation of goods and services that might fall under the nebulous category of being environmentally friendly or beneficial. In practice, producers of environmental technologies have a clear definition for their sector. From an industry perspective, environmental technologies are defined as all industrial goods and services that: Foster environmental protection and physical resource efficiency in industrial settings; Generate compliance with environmental regulations; Prevent or mitigate pollution; Manage or reduce waste streams; Remediate contaminated sites; Design, develop and operate environmental infrastructure; and Afford the provision and delivery of environmental resources.

Solid & Hazardous Waste Management:

Before a government strategy to address the opportunities and challenges to environmental technology exports can be developed, a common definition of the environmental technology industry must be established. This is particularly important for environmental technologies, since the term could include any permutation of goods and services that might fall under the nebulous category of being environmentally friendly or beneficial. In practice, producers of environmental technologies have a clear definition for their sector. From an industry perspective, environmental technologies are defined as all industrial goods and services that: Foster environmental protection and physical resource efficiency in industrial settings; Generate compliance with environmental regulations; Prevent or mitigate pollution; Manage or reduce waste streams; Remediate contaminated sites; Design, develop and operate environmental infrastructure; and Afford the provision and delivery of environmental resources.

Sustainability:

An air quality specialist is a scientist who tests and analyzes the air quality of a specific environment, such as a factory, power plant, or municipality. As an air quality specialist, your job duties can also involve enforcing regulations for vehicle emissions or factory pollution to maintain air quality standards. To become an air quality specialist, you typically need a bachelor’s degree in a field such as environmental science, biology, or chemistry. Your skills and experience should include the ability to collect samples, analyze data, and perform both simple and complex lab tests on samples. Strong communication skills are also essential in this career. Air quality specialists often work in the field to interview and discuss air quality issues with companies and government officials, along with making presentations or recommendations based on their findings.

Wastewater Management:

Emergencies can create a variety of hazards for workers in the impacted area. Preparing before an emergency incident plays a vital role in ensuring that employers and workers have the necessary equipment, know where to go, and know how to keep themselves safe when an emergency occurs. These Emergency Preparedness and Response pages provide information on how to prepare and train for emergencies and the hazards to be aware of when an emergency occurs. The pages provide information for employers and workers across industries, and for workers who will be responding to the emergency.

Water & Supply Treatment:

Before a government strategy to address the opportunities and challenges to environmental technology exports can be developed, a common definition of the environmental technology industry must be established. This is particularly important for environmental technologies, since the term could include any permutation of goods and services that might fall under the nebulous category of being environmentally friendly or beneficial. In practice, producers of environmental technologies have a clear definition for their sector. From an industry perspective, environmental technologies are defined as all industrial goods and services that: Foster environmental protection and physical resource efficiency in industrial settings; Generate compliance with environmental regulations; Prevent or mitigate pollution; Manage or reduce waste streams; Remediate contaminated sites; Design, develop and operate environmental infrastructure; and Afford the provision and delivery of environmental resources.

Watershed Management:

Before a government strategy to address the opportunities and challenges to environmental technology exports can be developed, a common definition of the environmental technology industry must be established. This is particularly important for environmental technologies, since the term could include any permutation of goods and services that might fall under the nebulous category of being environmentally friendly or beneficial. In practice, producers of environmental technologies have a clear definition for their sector. From an industry perspective, environmental technologies are defined as all industrial goods and services that: Foster environmental protection and physical resource efficiency in industrial settings; Generate compliance with environmental regulations; Prevent or mitigate pollution; Manage or reduce waste streams; Remediate contaminated sites; Design, develop and operate environmental infrastructure; and Afford the provision and delivery of environmental resources.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2055370
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.