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19-2042.00 - Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers   Save Table (XLS/CSV)

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Tools

All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled
  • All terrain vehicles ATV
Axes
Bench scales
  • Electronic bench scales
Benchtop centrifuges
  • Centrifuges
Binocular light compound microscopes
  • Illuminated microscopes
  • Optical compound microscopes
Chemical absorption gas analyzers
  • Portable organic vapor analyzers
Chromatographic scanners
Clinometers
Cold chisels
  • Rock chisels
Colorimeters
Commercial fishing nets
  • Plankton nets
Compasses
  • Mapping dividers
Compressed air gun
  • Pneumatic airscribes
Conductivity cells
  • Electrical conductivity cells
Conductivity meters
  • Electrical conductivity meters
Cyclone or vortex grinders
  • Rotary grinders
Desktop computers
Digital cameras
Dissolved oxygen meters
Drafting kits or sets
  • Mapping scale sets
  • Vertical sketchmasters
Dredgers
  • Biological dredges
Drying cabinets or ovens
  • Drying ovens
Electromagnetic geophysical instruments
  • Alternating field demagnitizers
  • Degaussing wands
  • Impulse magnetizers
  • Thermal specimen demagnitizers
Electron microscopes
  • Electron microprobes
Electronic toploading balances
Forestry increment borers
  • Tree corers
Fume hoods or cupboards
  • Fume hoods
Geological compasses
  • Geological stratum compasses
  • Pocket transits
  • Sun compasses
Global positioning system receivers
  • Global positioning system GPS devices
Graphics tablets
  • Digitizing tablets
Gravimeters
  • Gravity meters
  • Microgravimeters
Hammers
  • Chisel hammers
  • Crack hammers
  • Soft face hammers
Heating or drying equipment or accessories
  • Dessicators
Height gauges
  • Abney levels
  • Altimeters
Hydraulic rock drills
  • Hydraulic earth drills
Inductively coupled plasma ICP spectrometers
  • Argon plasma atomic emission spectroscopes
Ion chromatographs
Jaw crushers
Laboratory box furnaces
  • One-atmosphere furnaces
Laboratory crushers or pulverizers
  • Laboratory rock pulverizers
Laboratory mechanical convection ovens
  • High temperature laboratory ovens
Laboratory mixers
  • Agitators
  • Roto torque mixers
Laboratory separators
  • Isodynamic separators
Laboratory sifting equipment
  • Sieve shakers
Laser printers
Levels
  • Hand levels
Magnetometer geophysical instruments
  • Rock magnetometers
  • Vibrating sample magnetometers
Magnifiers
  • Hand magnifying lenses
Mainframe computers
Map measurers
  • Analog map measurers
  • Digital map measurers
  • Planimeters
Mass spectrometers
Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes
  • Computed tomography CT scanners
Microscope slides
Nitrogen gas analyzers
  • Brunauer-Emmett-Teller BET surface area analyzers
Notebook computers
Open stream current meters
  • Water current meters
Open stream water level recorders
  • Water level recorders
Optical diffraction apparatus
  • Submicron particle size analyzers
Organic carbon analyzers
  • Carbon analyzers
Paramagnetic susceptibility analyzers
  • Magnetic susceptibility measurement systems
  • Magnetic susceptibility/anisotropy systems
  • Magnetic susceptibility/temperature systems
  • Pocket magnetic susceptibility meters
Penetrometers
  • Underwater sediment bearing strength probes
Personal computers
Pestle or mortars
  • Motorized mortars/pestles
pH meters
Picks
  • Geo/paleo picks
  • Rock picks
Plotter printers
  • Large-format plotters
Pneumatic rock drills
  • Powered rock-coring drills
Polarizing microscopes
  • Petrographic microscopes
Portable data input terminals
  • Mobile wireless handheld communication devices
Portable seismic apparatus
  • Seismic stations
Protractors
Pry bars
Radarbased surveillance systems
  • Ground penetrating radar GPR
  • Long range radar equipment
  • Short-range radar equipment
Radiation detectors
Rangefinders
  • Laser rangefinders
Resistivity geophysical instruments
  • Earth resistivity meters
Reverse osmosis equipment
  • Reverse osmosis systems
Rock cutters
  • Rock saws
Sand testing apparatus
  • Sand grain size gauges
Scanners
  • Digitizers
Scintillation crystal assemblies
  • Gamma ray scintillometers
Seismic geophones
  • Geophones
Seismic recorders or seismographs
  • Digital seismographs
  • Seismic activity recorders
  • Seismographs
Soil core sampling apparatus
  • Automated core analysis systems
  • Bottom sampling equipment
  • Core splitters
  • Mechanical earth drills
  • Microsplitters
  • Sediment piston corers
  • Soil augers
  • Soil samplers
  • Tube samplers
Soil testing kits
  • X ray fluorescence XRF lead detectors
Solid phase extraction preparations
  • Fusion fluxes
Sonars
  • Echosounders
  • Multibeam echosounders
  • Side scan sonars
  • Towed sonars
Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters
  • X ray fluorescence spectrometers
Spectrometers
  • Gamma ray spectrometers
Spectrophotometers
  • Atomic absorption AA spectrophotometers
Stereo or dissecting light microscopes
  • Stereo microscopes
Test sieves
Theodolites
  • Laser theodolites
  • Total stations
Thermistors
  • Thermistor chains
Thermographs
  • Temperature profile recorders
Titration equipment
  • Digital alkalinity titrators
Transmission electron microscopes
  • Cathodoluminescence scopes
  • Fluid inclusion microscopes
Triple beam balances
Ultrasonic cleaning equipment
  • Ultrasonic sieve cleaners
Ultraviolet UV lamps
Underwater cameras
Vacuum or rotary evaporators
  • Rotoevaporators
Video attachments for microscopes
  • Stereoscopes
  • Video microscopes
Water analyzers
  • Mercury analyzers
Water samplers
  • Sediment samplers
  • Tubular water samplers
  • Water sampler bottles
Well logging downhole test equipment
  • Borehole cameras
Winches
X ray diffraction equipment
  • X ray diffractometers

Technology

Analytical or scientific software
  • Alara CRystalView
  • Aquifer test software
  • Bilko software
  • ChemStat software
  • Clover Technology GALENA
  • Compass Software
  • Crystal Maker software
  • Data logger software
  • Datamine software
  • EarthWorks Downhole Explorer
  • Earthworks MaxiPit
  • EasySolve Software SizePerm
  • Enigma software
  • EPIC GIS
  • Field Data Recorder software
  • Gemcom GEMS
  • Gemcom Surpac
  • Geo-Logic Systems LithoTect Interpreter
  • GeoGraphix software
  • GeoModel software
  • Geostatistical modeling GSTAT software
  • Geostatistics software GS+
  • gINT software
  • Gresens 92 *
  • Groundwater modeling system GMS software
  • Groundwater Vistas software
  • Hydrogeology Basin2
  • HydroSOLVE AQTESOLV software
  • IHS Energy PowerTools
  • Interpex IXID
  • IRIS Seismic Processing Workshop
  • Laboratory information management system LIMS software
  • Landmark VIP
  • Maptek Vulcan
  • Mintec MineSight software
  • MIT OASES
  • Multivariate statistical program MVSP software
  • National Geophysical Data Center GEODAS
  • OriginLab Origin
  • PaleoMag *
  • Paleontological Statistics PAST *
  • PaleoTax software
  • Parameter Estimation PEST
  • PolyMap software
  • Red Rock DeltaGraph
  • RockWare ChemFlux
  • Rockware CrossLog
  • RockWare DepthCon2000
  • RockWare Erupt
  • RockWare FIRSTPIX
  • RockWare Geochemist's Workbench GWB
  • RockWare GeoTrig
  • RockWare GRADIX
  • RockWare Grav2Dc
  • RockWare Jlog
  • RockWare MicroMODEL
  • RockWare Plan
  • RockWare Potent
  • RockWare QuickSyn
  • RockWare RockPack III
  • RockWare RockWorks
  • RockWare VEGO
  • RockWare Visual STUNT
  • RockWare WinSism
  • RSI ENVI
  • RSI interactive data language IDL software
  • SAS software
  • Scientific Software Group FEFLOW
  • Scientific Software Group Infinite Extent
  • Scientific Software Group SVHeat
  • SEA software
  • SeeByte SeeTrack
  • Seismic interpretation software
  • Seismic Micro-Technology KINGDOM
  • Seismic visualization software
  • Shape software
  • Socorro Scientific Software Refract2K
  • Solvcalv *
  • Starpint Software Super Slug
  • Strain Sim software
  • Systat Software SigmaStat
  • TECHBASE software
  • TiltSoft software
  • Triton Elics International SeaClass
  • Waterloo Hydrogeologic AquaChem
  • Waterloo Hydrogeologic FlowPath II
  • Well logging software
Computer aided design CAD software
  • Atoll GeoCAD
  • Autodesk AutoCAD software
  • Evolution Computing EasyCAD
  • Evolution Computing FastCAD
  • Midland Valley 3DMove
  • MineSight software
  • PowerCAD software
  • Schlumberger Inside Reality
  • Trimble Terramodel
  • Upperspace DesignCAD
  • Upperspace ModelCAD
Data base user interface and query software
  • EarthSoft EQuIS Geology
  • eNotebook software
  • GeoPLUS Petra
  • Geosoft DAP server
  • MJ Systems Logsleuth
  • MySQL software
  • Oracle software
  • RockWare Stratbugs
  • Scientific Software Group ChemPoint/ChemStat
Data conversion software
  • BOSS Didger
Document management software
  • Document Express software
Electronic mail software
  • Email software
Graphics or photo imaging software
  • ACD Systems Canvas
  • Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop software
  • Golden Software Surfer (graphics or photo imaging feature)
  • IGnet software
Internet browser software
Map creation software
  • ER Mapper software
  • ESRI ArcGIS software
  • ESRI ArcIMS
  • ESRI ArcInfo
  • ESRI ArcView
  • Geographic resources analysis support system GRASS* software
  • Geomechanical design analysis GDA software
  • Geosoft Oasis montaj
  • Geospatial data abstraction library GDAL *
  • Golden Software Surfer (map creation feature)
  • Intergraph ImageStation Stereo Softcopy Kit SSK
  • Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
  • MapInfo Professional
  • MICRODEM *
  • MineGeo software
  • SACLANTCEN *
  • Terrain surface mapping software
Office suite software
  • Microsoft Office software
  • OpenOffice.org *
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word

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