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Major educational fields, fields of study, and professional groupings within USGS.

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NT1 ↓ earth sciences ►▼
- NT2 ↓ atmospheric sciences ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ climatology
  - NT3 ↓ meteorology
- NT2 ↓ geochemistry ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ soil chemistry
  - NT3 ↓ water chemistry ►▼
    - NT4 ↓ marine chemistry
- NT2 ↓ geography ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ cartography
  - NT3 ↓ paleogeography
- NT2 ↓ geology ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ economic geology
  - NT3 ↓ geochronology
  - NT3 ↓ geomorphology
  - NT3 ↓ hydrogeology
  - NT3 ↓ marine geology
  - NT3 ↓ mineralogy
  - NT3 ↓ petrology
  - NT3 ↓ sedimentology
  - NT3 ↓ stratigraphy
  - NT3 ↓ structural geology
  - NT3 ↓ volcanology
- NT2 ↓ geophysics ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ geodesy
  - NT3 ↓ marine geophysics
  - NT3 ↓ seismology ►▼
    - NT4 ↓ paleoseismology
  - NT3 ↓ tectonophysics
- NT2 ↓ glaciology
- NT2 ↓ hydrology ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ hydrodynamics
- NT2 ↓ limnology
- NT2 ↓ ocean sciences ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ paleoceanography
- NT2 ↓ paleontology ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ invertebrate paleontology
  - NT3 ↓ micropaleontology
  - NT3 ↓ paleobotany
  - NT3 ↓ vertebrate paleontology
- NT2 ↓ soil sciences
NT1 ↓ engineering sciences ►▼
- NT2 ↓ engineering geology
- NT2 ↓ hydraulic engineering
NT1 ↓ information sciences ►▼
- NT2 ↓ biological informatics
- NT2 ↓ computer science
NT1 ↓ life sciences ►▼
- NT2 ↓ anatomy and physiology ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ endocrinology
  - NT3 ↓ histology
  - NT3 ↓ immunology
- NT2 ↓ aquatic biology
- NT2 ↓ biochemistry
- NT2 ↓ botany ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ palynology
  - NT3 ↓ phycology
- NT2 ↓ cell biology
- NT2 ↓ developmental biology
- NT2 ↓ ecology
- NT2 ↓ ecotoxicology
- NT2 ↓ genetics
- NT2 ↓ marine biology
- NT2 ↓ microbiology ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ bacteriology
  - NT3 ↓ virology
- NT2 ↓ molecular biology
- NT2 ↓ morphology (biological)
- NT2 ↓ mycology
- NT2 ↓ parasitology
- NT2 ↓ pathology
- NT2 ↓ systematics and taxonomy
- NT2 ↓ zoology ►▼
  - NT3 ↓ invertebrate zoology ►▼
    - NT4 ↓ entomology
  - NT3 ↓ vertebrate zoology ►▼
    - NT4 ↓ herpetology
    - NT4 ↓ ichthyology
    - NT4 ↓ mammalogy
    - NT4 ↓ ornithology
  - NT3 ↓ wildlife biology
NT1 ↓ planetary sciences
NT1 ↓ social sciences ►▼
- NT2 ↓ archeology

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20-Nov-2007

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20-Nov-2007

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