What Are Some Field Work Careers in Physics?

[Oblio]

Hey everybody,

I've been doing a little research, looking for jobs in physics with field work (or even are only field work / outdoors work).

The only thing I've come across so far is Marine and ocean Physics. Anyone else know of others?

Thanks!

 

[Andre]

Paleomagnetics?

http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~lanbo/G228Week5UseStrataView.pdf

 

[Gokul43201]

Field theory?

 

[f95toli]

I can think of quite a few. At the moment there is e.g. a LOT of work going into remote sensing and related fields, mainly in research related to Earth observation/global warming.
As far as I understand it is most of work involves what I guess one could call applied spectroscopy and related fields.
Where I work now we actually have a buss loaded with equipment which is used by the remote sensing group to study airborne emissions etc all over the world (yes, they actually do bring the buss with them).

 

[Dr Transport]

geophysics...

 

[lisab]

geophysics...

One of the many geophysics techniques in use is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetotellurics" .

 

[Choppy]

Medical physics has a significant clinical component if that interests you at all. Although they tend to lock us underground.

 

[eri]

I'm in astrophysics, and I do a lot of traveling to telescopes - Europe, South America, even tropical islands. A friend of mine in geophysics does a lot of field work on big boats in the pacific. And the atmospheric science people at my university are always heading out to the desert or Alaska to fly balloons.