Water Industry Careers

Always Reefin' · Mar 22, 2017

Greetings,

I'm applying for a graduate program at UW-Milwaukee's Freshwater School of Science.

Really impressive oceanographic style research facility and school on the Milwaukee harbor of Lake Michigan.

After graduation, (assuming I'm accepted) I'd like to start a career related to environmental economics, but I have a quite a bit of opinion to develop in the area. So, that leaves me wondering, who has a water related career? And likes it? Let me know what you do!

Sarah

LbulletM · Mar 24, 2017

In a past life (ok, ~ a year ago) I worked with an environmental consulting firm. Most of my stuff was with the air group (doing permitting for emissions from gas wells and stuff), but I also worked with the NEPA (National Environmental Protection Act) group a lot. They did a lot of water stuff.

Enjoy it? Well... I'm not there anymore.

That might have been more the company than the work, though.

red13 · Mar 24, 2017

Im a Life Support Systems Technician at a large aquarium. I work on the pumps, plumbing, automation, ect for the aquariums. Its prety cool, looks like your focusing on reasearch, you could look into water quality labs if you wanted to work at a public aquarium.

Always Reefin' · Mar 25, 2017

These are exactly the kinds of posts I'm looking for.

There's a local environmental consulting firm here and I've looked into jobs there and talked to a couple employees, but it doesn't seem like a good fit for me as of now. I'm not a biologist or an engineer, I have an economics background so that makes me more unique in the field, but also seems to limit job possibilities.

We have local aquariums at Discovery World, I'll look into water quality labs, I see it listed on their site.

LbulletM · Mar 25, 2017

The water folks over at my last job at the Environmental firm were from all over. One was even an archeologist that helped indict Hussein via mass burial sites.