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Job Description
Research or study basic principles of plant and animal life, such as origin, relationship, development, anatomy, and functions.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-1020.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Biologists”.
Also Known As…
- Biologists
- Scientist
- Research Scientist
- Research Biologist
- Marine Biologist
- Fisheries Biologist
- Environmental Specialist
- Environmental Analyst
- Biologist
- Assistant Scientist
- Aquatic Scientist
- Wildlife Biologist
- Research Fisheries Biologist
- Research Associate
- Research Analyst
- Rare/Endangered Species Specialist
- Plant Ecologist
- Physiologist
- Ocean Biologist
- Neurophysiologist
- Neurobiologist
- Nematologist
- Mycologist
- Molecular Biologist
- Genetic Engineer
- Fish Culture Technician
- Fish Culture Supervisor
- Environmental Scientist
- Endangered Species Project Manager
- Ecology Biologist
- Dolphin Researcher
- Director of Cell Biology
- Cytologist
- Community Ecologist
- Clinical Researcher
- Clinical Laboratory Scientist
- Botanist
- Biological Scientist
- Bioinformatics Specialist
- Aquatic Biologist
Tasks for “Marine Scientist”
- Cultivate, breed, and grow aquatic life, such as lobsters, clams, or fish.
- Communicate test results to state and federal representatives and general public.
- Prepare requests for proposals or statements of work.
- Study and manage wild animal populations.
- Develop pest management and control measures, and conduct risk assessments related to pest exclusion, using scientific methods.
- Program and use computers to store, process, and analyze data.
- Study basic principles of plant and animal life, such as origin, relationship, development, anatomy, and function.
- Collect and analyze biological data about relationships among and between organisms and their environment.
- Review reports and proposals, such as those relating to land use classifications and recreational development, for accuracy, adequacy, or adherence to policies, regulations, or scientific standards.
- Prepare technical and research reports, such as environmental impact reports, and communicate the results to individuals in industry, government, or the general public.
- Plan and administer biological research programs for government, research firms, medical industries, or manufacturing firms.
- Supervise biological technicians and technologists and other scientists.
- Study reactions of plants, animals, and marine species to parasites.
- Measure salinity, acidity, light, oxygen content, and other physical conditions of water to determine their relationship to aquatic life.
- Teach or supervise students and perform research at universities and colleges.
- Develop methods and apparatus for securing representative plant, animal, aquatic, or soil samples.
- Prepare plans for management of renewable resources.
- Research environmental effects of present and potential uses of land and water areas, determining methods of improving environmental conditions or such outputs as crop yields.
- Develop and maintain liaisons and effective working relations with groups and individuals, agencies, and the public to encourage cooperative management strategies or to develop information and interpret findings.
- Represent employer in a technical capacity at conferences.
- Study aquatic plants and animals and environmental conditions affecting them, such as radioactivity or pollution.
- Identify, classify, and study structure, behavior, ecology, physiology, nutrition, culture, and distribution of plant and animal species.
Related Technology & Tools
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Handheld digital thermometers
- French presses
- Heated stir plates
- Dip nets
- High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
- Propane jet freezers
- Automatic pipetters
- Liquid handling robots
- Desktop computers
- Spectrophotometers
- Vacuum dehydration units
- Centrifugal evaporators
- Conductivity meters
- Pasteur pipettes
- Digital cameras
- Biosafety cabinets
- Laboratory funnels
- Vertical drying ovens
- pH indicators
- Orbital shaking water baths
- Water-jacketed CO2 incubators
- Laboratory bulb syringes
- Zoom microscopes
- Safety gloves
- Dissecting microscopes
- Micropipettes
- Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequencers
- Scientific calculators
- Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
- Digestion units
- Vacuum evaporators
- Personal computers
- Multiwell microplates
- Benchtop lyophilizers
- Video imaging systems
- General purpose laboratory test tubes
- Microtomes
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- Plastic cuvettes
- Fluorescence microscopes
- Laboratory microwave ovens
- Mechanical laboratory incubators
- Fume hoods
- Fermenters
- Electron microscopes
- Gas autoclaves
- Ultramicrotomes
- Fluid scintillation counters
- Tissue culture plates
- Inverted compound microscopes
- Plankton nets
- Shaking incubators
- Erlenmeyer flasks
- Electronic precision balances
- Salinity meters
- Water samplers
- Portable dataloggers
- X ray spectrometers
- Benchtop centrifuges
- Phosporimagers
- Transmission electron microscopes TEM
- Ultraviolet UV transilluminators
- Microscope digital cameras
- Homogenizers
- Scanning laser confocal microscopes
- Glass beakers
- Ultraviolet UV visible spectrophotometers
- Automated microscopes
- Optical compound microscopes
- Heated magnetic stirrers
- Laminar flow cabinets
- Laptop computers
- Laboratory hot plates
- Navigational compasses
- Agar plates
- Gas chromatographs GC
- Laboratory analytical balances
- Mercury barometers
- Triple beam balances
- Ultracentrifuges
- Test tube shakers
- Top-loading electronic balances
- Petri dishes
- Bioreactors
- Glass washers
- Distillation units
- Glass burets
- Carbolite ovens
- Sonicators
- Swinging bucket centrifuges
- Glass graduated cylinders
- Plastic laboratory tubing
- Bunsen burners
- Respirometers
- Mainframe computers
- Luminometers
- Water flow gauges
- Electrophoresis chambers
- Microtiter plate readers
- Specimen collection containers
- Polymerase chain reaction PCR equipment
- Weather stations
- Safety goggles
- Inoculating loops
- Ultraviolet water purification systems
- Microscope slides
- Spreading rods
- Laboratory forceps
- Video microscopes
- Laboratory dropping pipettes
- Safety glasses
- RepeatMasker
- Microsoft Word
- R
- Partek Incorporated Partek Genomics Suite
- EnzymeX
- Meyer Instruments Optimas
- Microsoft Office
- FASTA
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Ingenuity Systems Ingenuity Pathways Analysis
- BLAT
- SPSS
- Oracle Java
- EMBOSS
- SURFDriver Software WinSURF
- Joint Prediction of Operons JPOP
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Access
- The MathWorks SimBiology
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Visual Molecular Dynamics VMD
- Protein Explorer
- NAMD
- Excavator
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequence analysis software
- FoldX
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- JaMBW
- Web browser software
- MacVector
- SoftZymics VisualEnzymics
- Phrap
- Agilent Technologies GeneSpring GX
- sim4
- Textco BioSoftware Gene Inspector
- BioKin PlateKi
- Linux
- UNIX
- Cubic
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- Phred
- VayTek VoxBlast
- SequentiX TreeMe
- C++
- Structured query language SQL
- Python
- Blue Tractor Software DNADynamo
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Gene Codes Sequencher
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST