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