🤖 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 “Wetland Scientist” 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%

“Wetland Scientist” 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%

“Wetland Scientist” 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

  • 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.

  • Analyze characteristics of animals to identify and classify them.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Inventory or estimate plant and wildlife populations.

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

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

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

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

  • Conduct literature reviews.

Technologies & Software

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

Alternative Job Titles