Oceanographer
"Investigator of the Ocean" Zac Lichtenstein Hour 4
Basic information about your career
- Study oceans, ocean floors, and coastlines
- Study plants and animals that live in the ocean
- Study the ways the sea and the air above it influence each other
- Includes five basic areas: physical, chemical, geological, biological, and marine
- Their finding help other researchers studying stuff like weather
- Spend time alone forming research
- Have atleast a masters degree or higher
- Some study the water some study the ground floor and how it affects the coastlines
- Some study animals and put them into groups by how they classify
- Measure the amounts of animal, mineral, and vegetable particles that fall and collect on the ocean floor
Pros and cons of this career
Pros
- Once experienced you earn 80.00+ dollars a minute
- Studying underwater life and how it affects the coastline
- Study the coastline and the ocean floors
- Have to go through underwater caves
- Spend some time alone forming or doing research
- Needs a masters degree that is 8 years in college
- When out at sea they may live in cramped places
What do you need to do to succeed in this career?
- Masters Degree
- Major in geosciences/geological and Earth science
- Need to be able to dive
What colleges can you attend to earn a degree for this career?
Wayne State
Pros
Hawaii Pacific University
Pros
Lamar University
Pros
Associations/Professional organization for this career
American Geosciences Institute, 4220 King Street, Alexandria, webmaster@agiweb.org
The Oceanography Society, P.O. Box 1931, Rockville, USA
Tel: (1) 301-251-7708, Fax: (1) 301-251-7709, Email: info@tos.org
Job Advertisement
Oceanographers needed, if you like studying the ocean floor, ocean animals, underwater plants, then do we have the job for you. You can earn 23.21 dollars an hour and 48,270 dollars annually. Master degree is required but you may be doing some of your work by yourself alone somewhere. Includes five basic areas. Those areas are physical, chemical, geological, biological, and marine. So become an oceanographer now.