Technology Skills and Tools Feedback Process

Analytical or scientific software

• Groundwater Vistas
• HydroSOLVE AQTESOLV
• IBM SPSS Statistics
• Minitab
• MODPATH
• Pattern searching software
• RockWare MODFLOW
• SAS
• Systat Software SigmaPlot
• The MathWorks MATLAB
• Wolfram Research Mathematica

Computer aided design CAD software

• Autodesk AutoCAD

Data base user interface and query software

• RIVERMorph

Electronic mail software

• Microsoft Outlook

Geographic information system

• Caliper Maptitude
• ESRI ArcGIS software
• ESRI ArcIMS
• ESRI ArcInfo
• ESRI ArcView
• Geographic information system GIS software
• Geographic information system GIS systems

Graphics or photo imaging software

• ACD Systems Canvas
• Adobe Photoshop
• Corel CorelDraw Graphics Suite
• Golden Software Grapher
• Lemkesoft GraphicConverter

Internet browser software

• Microsoft Internet Explorer

Map creation software

• Clark Labs IDRISI Andes
• Geographic resources analysis support system GRASS
• Golden Software Surfer
• ITT Visual Information Solutions ENVI
• Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
• MapInfo MapMarker
• Martin D Adamiker's TruFlite
• Trimble Pathfinder Office

Office suite software

• Microsoft Office software

Presentation software

• Microsoft PowerPoint

Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

Web page creation and editing software

• Adobe Dreamweaver

Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled

• All terrain vehicles ATV
• Four wheel drive 4WD vehicles

Analytical balances

• Laboratory analytical balances

Anemometers

• Sonic anemometers
• Wind direction sensors

Benchtop centrifuges

• High-speed centrifuges

Comparators

• Optical comparators

Conductivity meters

Darkfield microscopes

• Phase contrast microscopes

Desktop computers

Digital camcorders or video cameras

• Digital video cameras

Digital cameras

Dissolved oxygen meters

Dropping pipettes

• Laboratory dropping pipettes

Drying cabinets or ovens

• Drying ovens

Electromagnetic field meters

• Electromagnetic current meters

Electromagnetic geophysical instruments

• Demagnetizing equipment

Flow sensors

• Flow meters

Forestry increment borers

• Tree increment borers

Forestry saws

• Crosscut saws

Fume hoods or cupboards

• Fume hoods
• Portable fume hoods

General purpose refrigerators or refrigerator freezers

• Sample storage refrigerators

Global positioning system GPS receiver

• Global positioning system GPS receivers

Hand held camcorders or video cameras

• Video cameras

Heat tracing equipment

• Infrared IR thermometers

Height gauges

• Abney levels
• Survey altimeters

Hydrometers

Hygrometers

• Humidity sensors

Inductively coupled plasma ICP spectrometers

• Atomic emission spectroscopes

Ion chromatographs

Ion exchange apparatus

• Deionizers

Laboratory balances

• Electronic precision balances

Laboratory box furnaces

• Gas-mixing furnaces
• High temperature laboratory box furnaces
• Muffle furnaces

Laboratory crushers or pulverizers

• Laboratory sample splitters

Laboratory mechanical convection ovens

• Gravity convection ovens

Laboratory mixers

• Soil mixers

Laboratory sifting equipment

• Sieve shakers
• Sonic sifters

Land drilling rigs

• Truck-mounted drilling rigs

Laser printers

• Large format printers

Levels

• Automatic levels
• Laser levels

Magnetometer geophysical instruments

• Spinner magnetometers

Moisture meters

• Soil moisture meters

Notebook computers

• Laptop computers

Open stream current meters

• Water current meters

Particle size measuring apparatus

• Laser particle sizers

Permeability or porosity estimation apparatus

• Pressure plate apparatus

Personal computers

Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers

• Personal digital assistants PDA

pH meters

• pH analyzers

Plotter printers

• Plotters

Pneumatic rock drills

• Powered rock-coring drills

Polarizing microscopes

• Petrographic microscopes

Portable data input terminals

• Handheld data loggers
• Portable data collectors

Portable seismic apparatus

• Seismic stations

Power saws

• Chain saws

Precipitation or evaporation recorders

• Lysimeters

Pressure indicators

• Submersible pressure sensors

Radarbased surveillance systems

• Ground penetrating radar GPR

Recreational motorboats

• Research motorboats

Rock cutters

• Rock saws

Salinity meter

• Salinity meters

Scanners

• Digitizers
• Flatbed scanners

Scanning electron microscopes

• Scanning electron microscopes SEM

Soil core sampling apparatus

• Dutch augers
• Grab samplers
• Hiller corers
• Livingstone corers
• Powered vibracorers
• Russian corers
• Sediment coring equipment
• Soil samplers

Soil testing kits

• Compaction meters

Solar radiation surface observing apparatus

• Photosynthetically active radiation PAR meters

Stereo or dissecting light microscopes

• Stereo light microscopes
• Stereo zoom microscopes
• Stereographic microscopes

Tablet computers

Temperature transmitters

• Temperature sensors

Test sieves

• Ultrasonic sieving systems

Theodolites

• Total stations

Transmission electron microscopes

• Cathodoluminescence microscopes

Turbidimeters

• Turbidity probes

Video attachments for microscopes

• Video microscopes

Videoscopes

• Digital imaging microscopes

Voltage or current meters

• Mechanical current meters

Water samplers

• Sediment samplers
• Sediment traps
• Total dissolved solids TDS meters

Weather stations

• Portable weather stations

X ray diffraction equipment

• X ray diffractometers