Hydrologist Career

Job Description: Research the distribution, circulation, and physical properties of underground and surface waters; and study the form and intensity of precipitation and its rate of infiltration into the soil, movement through the earth, and return to the ocean and atmosphere.


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Hydrologist Career

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Master's Degree usually needed for this career