Career Choice: Wildlife Biologist Career Pathway: Agriculture & Manufacturing

1. Career Choice: Wildlife BiologistCareer Pathway: Agriculture & Manufacturing By: Cade Ewing 4th hour ED FOR CAREERS

2. Salary • The average Wildlife Biologist makes about $27 an hour, which is $56,500 a year

3. Education Requirements • You would have to major in Life Sciences. • You would also need at least a bachelor’s degree in one of these subjects: Animal Physiology, Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences, Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences, Ecology, Entomology, Wildlife Science and Management

4. Job Requirements • being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. • being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations

5. Work Context • How often do you use email in this job? • How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? • How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? • To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals?

6. Abilities • The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences • The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing

7. Work Activities • Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems • Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources • Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information

8. Skills • Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times • Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems • Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems

9. Knowledge • Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment • Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar

10. Tools • Dip net samplers; Gill nets; Jellyfish scoops; Plankton nets • Aerial nets; Odonata nets; Sweeping nets • Scintillation vials; Specimen collection jars; Water sample collection containers • Animal traps; Culvert traps; Foot snares; Mist nets • Benthic samplers; Ekman dredges; Multiplate samplers; Secchi disks

11. Technology • Computer modeling software; HATPRO; SAS software; Statistical software • Data entry software; Database management software; Microsoft Access; Relational database software • ESRI ArcView; Geographic information system GIS software; Mapping software

12. Tasks • Study animals in their natural habitats, assessing effects of environment and industry on animals, interpreting findings and recommending alternative operating conditions for industry • Inventory or estimate plant and wildlife populations

13. Description • Study the origins, behavior, diseases, genetics, and life processes of animals and wildlife.

14. Related Occupations • Microbiologist • Biologist • Agricultural Technician • Veterinarian Assistant and Laboratory Animal Caretaker • Animal Breeder

15. Outlook Information • There is a predicted increase of 8,800 job openings by the year 2018 • Currently, there are an estimated 20,000 wildlife biologists in the U.S.