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O*NET detailed work activityMeasure environmental characteristics
Stays humanWatch & inspect
8 jobs10 tasks
Inspecting and monitoring in person means noticing what's off with your own eyes, ears and hands, and being accountable for calling it.
Part of Monitor environmental conditions, under the O*NET work activity group Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 10 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Measure and graph phenomena such as lake levels, stream flows, and changes in water volumes.
- Inventory or estimate plant and wildlife populations.
- Map forest area soils and vegetation to estimate the amount of standing timber and future value and growth.
- Survey park to determine forest conditions and distribution and abundance of fauna and flora.
- Measure and assess vegetation resources for biological assessment companies, environmental impact statements, and rangeland monitoring programs.
- Assess ground or surface water movement to provide advice on issues, such as waste management, route and site selection, or the restoration of contaminated sites.
- Measure wind, temperature, and humidity in the upper atmosphere, using weather balloons.
- Measure radio, infrared, gamma, and x-ray emissions from extraterrestrial sources.
- Measure characteristics of the Earth, such as gravity or magnetic fields, using equipment such as seismographs, gravimeters, torsion balances, or magnetometers.
- Calculate orbits and determine sizes, shapes, brightness, and motions of different celestial bodies.