What duties does your job involve?
Ask a Biologist Monday 3/21/22
Answers from Biologists:
Water sampling, fish and microinvertebrate collection, regulation standards setting, water chemistry and pollutant analysis
Identifying and managing plant restoration projects for a National Park. Identifying plants, GIS, etc.
Compiling, editing, and providing data on endemic and sensitive species in the state.
Working for the Yurok tribe to build a new CA condor release site, tracking with radio collars
Foot and kayak surveys, drone work, mapping, grant writing for species at risk.
Using cameras to assess a rare chipmunk population in a habitat altered by wildfire
Habitat restoration on 45,000 acres of public surveys, waterfowl banding, and public contacts.
Collecting important data about bird migrations for a wind farm.
Work for a water engineering firm in NYC in the permitting and planning group.
Analyzing survey and banding data, supporting survey design, writing reports, writing manuscripts, meetings.
Bird banding, teaching local communities about landbird monitoring, science communication.
Teaching kids about vernal pools, who lives in them, and how they can protect them.
Pond restoration, dip netting and fence monitoring for flatwood salamanders.
Monitoring military bases for nesting snowy plovers and least terns for state/fed requirements.
Species surveys, habitat assessments, vegetation monitoring, NEPA, ESA, consultation and more.
Raptor trapping, banding, translocation, pyrotechnics and firearms use
Early detection and rapid response for invasive plants species.
Surveys, data collection and entry, inventory and monitoring tribal species, regulatory tribal response.
Animal care, data collection, partner coordination, experimental design, grad student supervision
Fieldwork, grant and data entry (tech)
Supervise/train undergrads, animal care, data/sample collection, research plan/designs
Collection of data in the field and the lab (tech)
Inventory and monitoring on refuges, habitat step down plans, data management
Collecting seed demography, rare plant surveys, many more things
Surveys, avian monitoring, data management, mentoring, consulting for ESA/MBTA
Surveys for bear dens, nesting birds and rare plants, plus amphibian and fish salvage
State oversight of industrial development, requiring wildlife surveys, reports, collaboration
Jet boat diving, snorkeling, salmonoid identification, much more
Monitoring PIPL (Great Lakes population), RPBB habitat implementation, outreach, NRDAR
