Marine Biologist
By:Becca Thiem
Salary
27,644-109,785 Median=54,321
Education necessary to do the job successfully
If you want to be a Marine Biologist you have to have a bachelors degree in Marine Biology. You also have to have your bachelors degree in Coastal Ecology. Coastal Ecology is studying the relationship between organisms and their habitat or environment. You will also have to have your masters degree to be a Marine Biologist.
Job Description/Duties
As a Marine Biologist your duty is to study animals and plants in the ocean. They study their environment, what kind of foods marine animals eat(marine animals are animals like fish and lots of other mammals), how their living conditions are, and their behaviors. You can focus your studying on one water animal or several animals.
Marine Animal
Baby Sea Turtle
Marine Animal
Shark
Marine Animal
Killer Whale
Environmental relationship between the environment and job
The environmental relationship between the environment and being a Marine Biologist is that you help the animals and plants in the ocean. With out Marine Biologist we wouldn't know a lot about marine animals, we properly wouldn't even know that some mammals or plants even existed. With being a Marine Biologist your practically outside the whole time, ether in the water or on a boat.
Advantages
Some advantages of being a Marine biologist are that you can study really cool animals like dolphins and sharks. Their are also lots of other cool fish and other mammals, also plants. You also travel around the world a lot saving endangered species, which would be fun. Another thing is you can learn about animals you never knew or saw before. The advantages of being a Marine Biologist are endless!
Marine Fish
This is a puffer fish
Marine Dolphin
Lots of Marine Biologist just study dolphins
Marine Plants
They are lots of different plants that Marine Biologist study
Disadvantages
Some disadvantages of being a Marine Biologist is that theirs a lot of schooling involved with being one.To be a Marine Biologist you have to study a lot and do very well in school. You also have to do a lot of research, which some people don't like. Another bad thing about being a one is that you could get stuck in a storm, which rarely happens.
Interesting Facts
Some interesting facts about being a Marine Biologist are that you can study dolphins and whales and lots of other interesting animals, you also study lots of different plants. You scuba dive to go see the animals and plants and that's very fun to do.
Website (bibliography)
-http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/undergrad/courses/biology/marine/?gclid=CPOA4c6Z1LUCFe0WMgodvUcAZw
-http://work.chron.com/advantages-disadvantages-job-marine-biology-5613.html
-http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Marine_Biologist/Salary
-http://marinebio.org/oceans/creatures.asp
- http://kevinnicollecolvin.blogspot.com/2012/05/the-baby-turtle.html
-http://local.brookings.k12.sd.us/krscience/zoology/webpage%20projects/sp10webprojects/pufferfish/pufferfish.htm
- http://carinbondar.com/2011/12/a-great-white-shark-predation-internship-this-wont-hurt-a-bit/
- http://oceanwildthings.com/2011/05/list-of-toothed-whales-including-dolphins/
-http://work.chron.com/advantages-disadvantages-job-marine-biology-5613.html
-http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Marine_Biologist/Salary
-http://marinebio.org/oceans/creatures.asp
- http://kevinnicollecolvin.blogspot.com/2012/05/the-baby-turtle.html
-http://local.brookings.k12.sd.us/krscience/zoology/webpage%20projects/sp10webprojects/pufferfish/pufferfish.htm
- http://carinbondar.com/2011/12/a-great-white-shark-predation-internship-this-wont-hurt-a-bit/
- http://oceanwildthings.com/2011/05/list-of-toothed-whales-including-dolphins/