Environment SHSM
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With an Environment Specialist High Skills Major, students focus on a career path to match their skills and interests in this sector. By making courses more relevant to students, kids get a better understanding of the Environment sector because they learn it in a real world environment. Students learn on the job with employers through Co-op and Experiential Learning opportunities, as well as in school. At graduation they receive a specially designated diploma.
An Environment SHSM may be for you if you are interested in any of the following careers:
Apprenticeship Training
College
- Aquaculture Operator and Manager
- Biological Technologist or Biological Technician
- Conservation Officer or Fishery Officer
- Environmental Technician
- Field Technician - Air Pollution
- Forest Ecologist
- Forestry Technologist/Technician
- Geological and Mineral Technologist/Technician
- Habitat Management Technician
- Hatchery or Fisheries Technician
- Mapping and Related Technologist/Technician
- Quality Control - Chemical Engineering Technologist
- Silviculture and Forestry Workers
- Soil Testing Technologist
- Technician - Pollution Control
University
- Air Quality Meteorologist
- Chemical Engineer
- Climatologist
- Environmental and Occupational Toxicologist
- Environmental Biologist
- Environmental Engineer
- Environmental Impact Analyst
- Environmental Planner
- Environmental Program Coordinator
- Forestry Professional
- Geological Engineer
- Geologist and Geochemist
- Interpretive Naturalist
- Landscape Architects
- Meteorologist
- Urban and Land Use Planners
- Waste Diversion Consultant
Workplace
- Canoeing Guide
- Fishing Guide
- Hunting Guide
- Landscaping and Grounds Maintenance Workers
- Outdoor Sport and Recreation Guide
- Outfitter
- Recreation Program Leader
- Recycled Paper Handler
- Silviculture and Forestry Workers
- Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator
An Environment SHSM will provide students with an assortment of the following TRAININGS AND CERTIFICATIONS specific to the Environment sector:
- Standard First Aid
- Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation CPR - Level A
- WHMIS
- Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
- Animal and Plant Management
- Automated External Defibrillation (AED)
- Chainsaw Safety
- Geographic Information System (GIS)
- Habitat Restoration
- Hike Ontario
- Knots Technique
- Leadership
- Leave No Trace
- Life Saving
- Map and Compass Use
- Paddling Techniques
- Pleasure Craft Operator
- Project Wild
- Radio Operator
- Search and Rescue
- Species (e.g., birds, plants, small mammals) ID
- Stream Assessment Protocol
- Water/Ice Safety
- Watershed Management
- Wilderness First Aid