Young Geo Professional Magazine
19th June, 2008 – 4th August, 2008
The geomatics and hydrographics field is flourishing as never before; nevertheless, it is experiencing a shortage of personnel. Companies and governments simply cannot attract sufficient qualified personnel to get all the work done. Furthermore, universities and educational institutions all over the world are suffering from a lack of new students.
How can we turn the tide? How can we interest people in starting a career in, for example, land surveying, electronic charting, remote sensing, positioning or hydrographic surveying? As a publisher, we think this can be accomplished with a magazine, and associated website, focussed on young people at precisely that time when they are making decisions about their future career.
The central question addressed is: What makes Geomatics so appealing? And why is a career in Geomatics so interesting?
The magazine hopes to achieve this through easy accessible and entertaining articles on a variety of topics: e.g. experiences of students from all over the world, exciting and adventurous internships/jobs, interesting facts about geomatics, etc.
We are currently looking for students or young professionals who have (or had) an interesting internship or job (such as surveying the Chinese Wall, Dredging the Amazon River, etc.) and
who would like to write about these experiences.
Furthermore, we would like an article about the “tips and tricks” of choosing the right school. In other words, the article should answer questions like why should a student choose a career in geomatics, how do you choose the right university, how do you choose the right Major, how do you know whether geomatics is right for you? What can you expect at school (which courses? Which courses are important/fun/adventurous, etc…? Is it a very practical study?)
The question to you is, would you be interested in writing a story for us? Or do you perhaps have any other interesting article suggestions? Do you want to participate?
Then contact:
Victor van Essen:
Marjan de Vries:
The magazine and website will be available for students at the start of the study year (September 2008).
Young Geo Professional Magazine is published by Reed Business Geo.
Contact: Boukje Vreman,
Alternatively you may contact:
Alex Koh,
