Growing Australia’s Earth observation workforce: finding, and hiring for, early career EO jobs

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Both employers and people looking to work in Earth observation (EO) will be interested in this webinar where we discussed:

  • the demand for EO-skilled employees in government and industry;

  • key EO knowledge and skills and which students are acquiring these at university; and

  • how to bring graduates into EO from a range of backgrounds.

Our host for this 'in conversation with' style webinar was the current Earth Observation Australia Inc. (EOA) Ambassador, Dr Caitlin Adams who is the 2022 recipient of the EOA award for " Early-Career Contribution to the Development of the Australian Earth Observation Community and its Capabilities". Caitlin is Senior Data Scientist at FrontierSI.

Presenters:

Joining Caitlin to talk about the opportunities and challenges of building Australia's EO workforce were:

  • Dr Jasmine Muir - SmartSAT CRC and Symbios Communications

  • Norman Mueller - Geoscience Australia

  • Professor Stuart Phinn - University of Queensland

This was a highly interactive event where the chat window was widely used by the panel and participants. A link to a copy of the chat window can be found below.

Webinar recording:

Audience chat:

Click here to read the chat window from the webinar.