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What kind of proteins do you find in meat that you cannot find in rice and lentils?

It's true that a vegan diet must be supplemented with B12 for example, and it must be properly planned to be healthy, but it's a myth that you can't be healthy on a vegan diet. And if you buy your animal meat in the supermarket, there's good chance that it has been supplemented in B12 too, so it's not like you can avoid B12 supplementation in the industrialized world (and in fact you shouldn't, a lot of aged people don't get enough).

Check a few vegan meals on https://cronometer.com app to see that you'll get all the proteins your body need very easily.

What I would first recommend is finding out what the place you are applying to specializes in- do they mostly do petroleum work? Chlorinated solvents? Metals? Are they mostly investigation, systems design, in-situ remediation? Do they focus on wetlands, military bases, commercial/industrial? Once you kind of have an idea, do a google search for some relevant current case studies and/or government guidance documents, and read through at least the abstracts, introductions, and conclusions (when you don't hit a paywall [and you WILL hit paywalls, don't get discouraged]).

This exercise is NOT so that you have a perfect understanding of, say, pH influence on microbial reproduction; it IS to show that you respect the company you are interviewing at enough to have done some homework.

All of this being said; I should slightly modify my original comment: the technical questions for entry level positions will likely have to do with "fundamentals" that the interviewer expects you to have down after looking through your resume. They most likely won't expect you to know industry specific questions, but if you put down that you went through, say, hydrogeology, then for the love of God, be prepared to talk about contaminant transport. Either way, the real point is: DO NOT TRY TO BULLSHIT YOUR WAY THROUGH QUESTIONS. Honestly tell them you don't know, and if you have a guess, let them know you aren't entirely sure before you proceed.

GIS textbooks like "Getting to know ArcGIS" and the "GIS Tutorials" series On Amazon all come with a 6 month trial of ArcGIS 10.3 if you don't have access to ArcGIS.

I also agree with Kamelasa, it's WAAY easier to learn Python as it relates to GIS coding, because they're more "specialized" Python scripts. I would look for a textbook on Amazon, then work on a chapter a week. Plus, having the reference material there for later makes it easier...or you can just sell it back to Amazon when you're done.

Firstly you can't use glacier extent as an analogy to climate. Ablation from glaciers is determined, at least in part, by temperature in the summer months, that is true. However, accumulation in the winter is determined by precipitation, and there is little or no correlation between precip and temperature, in fact if anything precip increases as temp increases, so this helps to counteract the increased melt in summer.

This chart puts it another way, it shows the sensitivity of ice masses to change in climate (lilac) and their ability to contribute to sea level (blue), so greenland, for example, isn't very sensitive, but contains a lot of water.

Greenland by the way, has, in the last few years experienced increased melt rates, this is another figure showing how the area of the ice sheet that experiences any melt in summer is increasing, this is the reason why things are getting a bit worrying.

If you look back in time to the points when ice sheets were much smaller than they are today, then sea level was higher, as you can see in smectite's post.

Hope that helps, I am actually a glaciologist, so any questions, fire away.

For learning Python, check out Learn Python the Hard Way: https://learnpythonthehardway.org. It's free and it's not actually that hard (not particularly endorsing the author of LPTHW, but I do know people who have used it to learn Python). There's also Treehouse, which I highly recommend, but it's not free: https://teamtreehouse.com.

Good luck!

I'm a recent graduate working my first post-school job in the natural resources division of a local nonprofit. My job doesn't specifically involve GIS, but during the interview being able to quickly list off specific tasks I was familiar with in ArcGIS seemed to be a plus.

In my prior job in hydrology, which was very GIS intensive, I used python a lot. I started teaching myself with this course while it was free, then moved on to other free resources afterward.

https://www.udacity.com/course/cs101

Maybe hit a good engineering text, or something like this from Amazon. I expect your local library would have lots of resources, and a librarian to help you use them.

Energy storage is a problem. Large scale, there are hydroelectric dams and 'pumped storage' Small scale there are lithium-ion batteries. It is a whole separate rabbit hole.

This is the book my program "requires" as its often used by employers, or so they say. These books have wax coated pages which work to keep things legible and intact. They have us using uncoiled to stop a forgery by removing pages. Hope that helps.

It takes a lot of practice for sure but it is super useful! I highly suggest finding tutorials if you can, heard MOOCs and youtube have some pretty good free tutorials. Also, I suggest making a working document of all your base code.

This reference card is pretty handy as well: https://www.slideshare.net/VolkanOBANMsc/short-reference-card-for-r-users

I suggest you check out the references section of the wikipedia and, of course, google scholar.

Maps and the Geospatial Revolution is a course offered through coursera.org. I would highly recommend it as introduction / refresher in G.I.S. It starts on April 30th, 2014.

It's hard to say without knowing more about the property. If this is a wetlands buffer on a lake though, I highly recommend this guide - https://www.amazon.com/Lakescaping-Wildlife-Quality-Carrol-Henderson/dp/0964745127/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508889339&sr=8-1&keywords=landscaping+for+wildlife+and+water+quality.

It's quite cheap and very informative. Yes, it's targeted to MN, but the information will still be pertinent to you.

What state(s) are you interested in?

The Environmental Law Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of federal environmental laws and some state analogues, but it has over 1000 pages, is dense reading (geared towards lawyers), and may be of limited value to your daily work.