Careers like being a meteorologist?

tgt

What are some careers similar to this profession?

mgb_phys

There are a lot of jobs, both goverment and consultancy, advising on air polution issues for planning and permitting of plants, new roads, housing devlopment etc.

These require a knowledge of weather patterns, atmospheric chemistry, meteorological effects, modelling etc.

Defennder

What major does meteorology fall under? I don't remember seeing it anywhere for my college's course catalog.

offtheleft

physical science

WhiteKnights

Atmospheric studies?

ZapperZ

Where I used to go to school (UW-Madison), they had a Meteorology Dept., which I think now has been renamed as the Dept. of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. The link, though, still has "meteor" name in the url.

Zz.

mgb_phys

It varies, people generally come from a background in either maths/computer modelling, atmospheric chemistry or geography.
Meteorologists with a knowledge of chemstry, especially pollution / organic chemistry are highly employable!

WhiteKnights

I imagine with the growing popularity of wind turbines and solar panels, Atmospheric Scientists are being used to determine optimal locations as well.

tgt

I meant a job that's applied like meteorology in a science area that uses lots of maths or stats.

It doesn't have to do with the weather.

DaleSpam

Or did you mean a job where you could be wrong more often than not and still keep your job?

Defennder

There's an old joke which goes "Economists are there to make weathermen look good."