Geography & Geosciences
Careers
With a degree from Elmhurst’s Department of Geography & Geosciences, your professional horizons will be wide and interesting. Our graduates are working in urban, regional, and transportation planning; cartography and geographic information systems (GIS); commercial location and marketing analysis; education; and more.
For example:
- Nathan Rold, Linus Saulys and Karl Steimel ’09, are mapping specialists with Exelon (ComEd)
- Christina Colantoni ’08, is a senior GIS specialist with ESRI in St. Louis
- Carmella Burdi '06, is a GIS Specialist with the County of DuPage
- Leah Talaber '06, is a GIS Analyst with Argonne National Laboratory
- Chris Gonzalez ’05, is a GIS Analyst with Sidwell in St. Charles
- Brian Parker '05, is a GIS Specialist with the Village of Algonquin
- Candice Assell (Engelbrecht) ’02, teaches earth science/astronomy/weather & environment at Naperville North High School
- Melanie Luna Gotto ’02, is a consultant in the environmental industry working for Entact Environmental
- Kevin Donovan ’00, works as a land surveyor at Webster, McGrath & Ahlberg
- Dave Andrusyk ’97, works as a naturalist for the Tri-County State Park Visitor Center
- Cyndi Harper (Woltzen) ’96, is transit planner for the Twin Cities Area Transit Agency
- Rick Heckman ’95, teaches geography and history at Glenbard West High School
- Dr. Michael Urban '91, is a professor of geography at the University of Missouri
- Linda Kuta Gray ’88, is a geographic specialist for the U.S. Department of the Census
