As a marine biologist, your job can vary from studying, observing, and protecting, to actually managing marine plants or animals. Your studies can include examination of the origin, structure, habitat, function and behaviour of life in the ocean, rivers or estuaries.
As a marine biologist your research possibilities are endless, and the range of this occupation may very well hold your interest for the span of your career. However, you do have the option to specialise in various fields. You may like to move into the areas of fish reproduction, aquaculture or toxicology.
Toxicology is the scientific study of poisons, and you may be employed to monitor the effects of drilling on marine life due to offshore petroleum drilling. You also have the opportunity to become a freshwater biologist, where you would do similar work, but studying the plant and animal life in rivers, lakes and ponds.
The employment opportunities for marine biologists are usually dependent on federal and state government funding allocations. This is an occupation with very few employment vacancies, so the competition for positions is very tough. You may wish to use your studies in marine biology to move into aquaculture, which is expected to have strong employment opportunities in the future.
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