Biologists
Research or study basic principles of plant and animal life, such as origin, relationship, development, anatomy, and functions.
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Annual Salary
$93,330/ year
Median wage · BLS🇺🇸 USA
What You'll Actually Do
The core tasks and responsibilities that fill a typical day.
- 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.
- Program and use computers to store, process, and analyze data.
- Collect and analyze biological data about relationships among and between organisms and their environment.
- Communicate test results to state and federal representatives and general public.
- Identify, classify, and study structure, behavior, ecology, physiology, nutrition, culture, and distribution of plant and animal species.
- Represent employer in a technical capacity at conferences.
- Teach or supervise students and perform research at universities and colleges.
- Supervise biological technicians and technologists and other scientists.
- Study basic principles of plant and animal life, such as origin, relationship, development, anatomy, and function.
- Prepare requests for proposals or statements of work.
- Prepare technical and research reports, such as environmental impact reports, and communicate the results to individuals in industry, government, or the general public.
- 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.
- Write grant proposals to obtain funding for biological research.