🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     
Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Fish and Wildlife Biologist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #240 of 702. Estimated risk: 30.0%

Directly assessed by researchers as unlikely to be automatable
Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

AI Exposure Risk

51%

“Fish and Wildlife Biologist” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 51% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

41%

“Fish and Wildlife Biologist” will probably not be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 41% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Study the origins, behavior, diseases, genetics, and life processes of animals and wildlife. May specialize in wildlife research and management. May collect and analyze biological data to determine the environmental effects of present and potential use of land and water habitats.

Avg. Annual Salary $77,920
Avg. Hourly Wage $37.46
Available Jobs (US) 16,920
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists #19-1023
Wage vs. National Median
ℹ️

Data is based on the reference occupation: “Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists”

Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

Related Occupations & Automation Risk

Economists

AI Risk 63%
Robot Risk 15%

Biochemists and Biophysicists

AI Risk 62%
Robot Risk 47%

Industrial Ecologists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 23%

Geographers

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 28%

Environmental Economists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 18%

Atmospheric and Space Scientists

AI Risk 61%
Robot Risk 28%

Core Skills & Abilities

  • Study animals in their natural habitats, assessing effects of environment and industry on animals, interpreting findings and recommending alternative operating conditions for industry.

  • Coordinate preventive programs to control the outbreak of wildlife diseases.

  • Study characteristics of animals, such as origin, interrelationships, classification, life histories, diseases, development, genetics, and distribution.

  • Analyze characteristics of animals to identify and classify them.

  • Prepare collections of preserved specimens or microscopic slides for species identification and study of development or disease.

  • Organize and conduct experimental studies with live animals in controlled or natural surroundings.

  • Perform administrative duties, such as fundraising, public relations, budgeting, and supervision of zoo staff.

  • Check for, and ensure compliance with, environmental laws, and notify law enforcement when violations are identified.

  • Develop, or make recommendations on, management systems and plans for wildlife populations and habitat, consulting with stakeholders and the public at large to explore options.

  • Inform and respond to public regarding wildlife and conservation issues, such as plant identification, hunting ordinances, and nuisance wildlife.

  • Inventory or estimate plant and wildlife populations.

  • Conduct literature reviews.

  • Disseminate information by writing reports and scientific papers or journal articles, and by making presentations and giving talks for schools, clubs, interest groups and park interpretive programs.

  • Collect and dissect animal specimens and examine specimens under microscope.

Technologies & Software

  • Global positioning system GPS software
  • Microsoft Access
  • Relational database software
  • Nova (Amazon)
  • Gemini (Google)
  • Scite AI
  • Microsoft Word
  • SAS
  • ESRI ArcGIS software
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • NotebookLM (Google)
  • Kimi (Moonshot AI)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Statistical software
  • Salesforce software
  • Llama (Meta)
  • Email software
  • ESRI ArcView
  • Mistral AI (chat/models)
  • Web browser software
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Python
  • Word processing software
  • R
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Corel WordPerfect Office Suite
  • Database management software
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • Spreadsheet software
  • IBM Lotus 1-2-3
  • Gemini for Workspace
  • Geographic information system GIS systems
  • Elicit
  • Geographic information system GIS software
  • Grok (xAI)
  • Computer modeling software
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Semantic Scholar AI
  • Perplexity AI
  • DeepSeek
  • Consensus
  • Microsoft Project
  • Qwen (Alibaba)
  • HATPRO
  • Microsoft Active Server Pages ASP
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Tree corers
  • Foot snares
  • Laboratory balances
  • Clinometers
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Safety glasses
  • Photomicroscopes
  • Metric measuring tapes
  • Laser printers
  • All terrain vehicles ATV
  • Fish traps
  • Dart guns
  • Desktop computers
  • Four wheel drive 4WD vehicles
  • Dissecting tools
  • Compound binocular light microscopes
  • Laboratory mechanical convection incubators
  • Small power boats
  • Counting chambers
  • Axes
  • Laboratory forceps
  • Tree top peeper and video probe systems
  • Scintillation vials
  • Rulers
  • Graduated glass laboratory cylinders
  • Laboratory funnels
  • Salinity meters
  • Compound microscopes
  • D-ring nets
  • Stainless steel scalpel blades
  • Leather gloves
  • Culvert traps
  • Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus SCUBA equipment
  • Archery bows
  • Bongo nets
  • Water sample collection containers
  • Dropping pipettes
  • Digital cameras
  • Field thermometers
  • Spotting scopes
  • Rubber rafts
  • Dissecting microscopes
  • Carbon dioxide CO2 monitors
  • Sieve buckets
  • Ekman dredges
  • Water pumps
  • pH meters
  • Folsom plankton splitters
  • Notebook computers
  • Radio telemetry equipment
  • Binoculars
  • Personal computers
  • Egg candlers
  • Odonata nets
  • Steam autoclaves
  • Micrometers
  • Light traps
  • Seines
  • Hand lenses
  • Two way radios
  • Spectrometers
  • Plankton nets
  • Laboratory beakers
  • Snowmobiles
  • Animal transmitters
  • Sledgehammers
  • Dataloggers
  • Jet skis
  • Climbing belts
  • 35 millimeter cameras
  • Gill nets
  • Dip net samplers
  • Mist nets
  • Nitrile gloves
  • Air compressors
  • Specimen collection containers
  • Jellyfish scoops
  • Multiplate samplers
  • Calorimeters
  • Mesh sieves
  • Laser hypsometers
  • Boat trailers
  • Spring scales
  • Water thermometers
  • Secchi disks
  • Animal traps
  • Portable refractometers
  • Hard hats
  • Water samplers
  • Dust masks
  • Laboratory freezers
  • Adjustable widemouth pliers
  • Fume hoods
  • Benthic samplers
  • Extension ladders
  • Geodetic ground global positioning system GPS receivers
  • Compasses
  • Drying ovens
  • Canoes
  • Vernier calipers
  • Conductivity meters
  • Snorkels
  • Flow meters
  • Petri dishes
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Monopan balances
  • Sweeping nets
  • Aerial nets
  • Volumeters
  • Sterilizing ovens

Alternative Job Titles