Want to work outdoors, in a lab, or in front of a computer?\u00a0 Want to work on solving practical problems in the environment? Want to be a geoscientist with job prospects after graduation? Become a hydrologist.<\/p>\n
Over the past 18 months, hydrology hires have increased 30%<\/a>, while geology hires have decreased by an equal amount.\u00a0 US News and World Report also lists hydrologist as one of the 50 best careers for 2010<\/a>. According to US News, “There were 8,100 hydrologist jobs in 2008, and employment should grow more than 18 percent by 2018.”<\/p>\n More extended thoughts on why hydrology is hot can be found here<\/a>. Or in any of my classes<\/a>. Or, actually, anytime you ask me what I do and why I like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Want to work outdoors, in a lab, or in front of a computer?\u00a0 Want to work on solving practical problems in the environment? Want to be a geoscientist with job prospects after graduation? Become a hydrologist. Over the past 18 months, hydrology hires have increased 30%, while geology hires have …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[348],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","tag-careers"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"ajefferson","author_link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/author\/ajefferson\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}