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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Lepidopterist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #240 of 702. Estimated risk: 30.0%

Directly assessed by researchers as unlikely to be automatable
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AI Exposure Risk

51%

“Lepidopterist” 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%

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

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • 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.

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

  • Conduct literature reviews.

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

  • Inventory or estimate plant and wildlife populations.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Analyze characteristics of animals to identify and classify them.

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

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

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  • Animal transmitters
  • Water samplers
  • Micrometers
  • Plankton nets
  • Monopan balances
  • Field thermometers
  • Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus SCUBA equipment
  • Counting chambers
  • Personal computers
  • Foot snares
  • Jet skis
  • Hand lenses
  • Water thermometers
  • Specimen collection containers
  • 35 millimeter cameras
  • Archery bows
  • Notebook computers
  • Axes
  • Sieve buckets
  • Scintillation vials
  • Adjustable widemouth pliers
  • Laboratory beakers
  • Binoculars
  • Aerial nets
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Dropping pipettes
  • Calorimeters
  • Fume hoods
  • Ekman dredges
  • Seines
  • Secchi disks
  • Jellyfish scoops
  • Animal traps
  • Small power boats
  • Laboratory forceps
  • Dust masks
  • Portable refractometers
  • Hard hats
  • Climbing belts
  • Volumeters
  • Sledgehammers
  • Dataloggers
  • Dissecting tools
  • Fish traps
  • Flow meters
  • Sterilizing ovens
  • Graduated glass laboratory cylinders
  • Spectrometers
  • Laser printers
  • Drying ovens
  • Compasses
  • Tree top peeper and video probe systems
  • Safety glasses
  • Spotting scopes
  • Dart guns
  • Sweeping nets
  • Bongo nets
  • Compound microscopes
  • Four wheel drive 4WD vehicles
  • Metric measuring tapes
  • Tree corers
  • All terrain vehicles ATV
  • Desktop computers
  • Geodetic ground global positioning system GPS receivers
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Gill nets
  • Mist nets
  • Compound binocular light microscopes
  • Vernier calipers
  • Laser hypsometers
  • Petri dishes
  • Photomicroscopes
  • Snorkels
  • Nitrile gloves
  • Laboratory mechanical convection incubators
  • Dip net samplers
  • Laboratory freezers
  • Digital cameras
  • Water pumps
  • Light traps
  • Two way radios
  • Laboratory funnels
  • Rubber rafts
  • Carbon dioxide CO2 monitors
  • Rulers
  • Snowmobiles
  • pH meters
  • Boat trailers
  • Conductivity meters
  • Odonata nets
  • Clinometers
  • Culvert traps
  • Air compressors
  • Canoes
  • Dissecting microscopes
  • Steam autoclaves
  • Water sample collection containers
  • Leather gloves
  • Extension ladders
  • Stainless steel scalpel blades
  • Spring scales
  • Salinity meters
  • Folsom plankton splitters
  • Mesh sieves
  • Egg candlers
  • Benthic samplers
  • Multiplate samplers
  • Laboratory balances
  • Radio telemetry equipment

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