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19-3092.00 — Geographers

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Tools

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 receivers
  • Global positioning system GPS devices
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

Technology

Analytical or scientific software
  • Groundwater Vistas software
  • HydroSOLVE AQTESOLV software
  • Minitab software
  • MODPATH
  • Pattern searching software
  • RockWare MODFLOW
  • SAS software
  • SPSS software
  • Systat Software SigmaPlot
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Wolfram Research Mathematica
Computer aided design CAD software
  • Autodesk AutoCAD software
Data base user interface and query software
  • Scientific Software Group RiverMorph
Graphics or photo imaging software
  • ACD Systems Canvas
  • Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop software
  • Corel CorelDraw Graphics Suite
  • Golden Software Grapher
  • Lemkesoft GraphicConverter
Internet browser software
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer
Map creation software
  • Caliper Maptitude
  • Clark Labs IDRISI Andes
  • ESRI ArcGIS software
  • ESRI ArcIMS
  • ESRI ArcInfo
  • ESRI ArcView
  • Geographic resources analysis support system GRASS* software
  • Golden Software Surfer
  • ITT Visual Information Solutions ENVI
  • Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
  • MapInfo MapMarker
  • Martin D Adamiker's TruFlite
  • Trimble Pathfinder Office
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Web page creation and editing software
  • Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word

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