What are some less known areas/jobs in Biology?

Ask A Biologist Monday 1/9/23

Answers from Biologists:

• Installing exotic fly traps into residential areas (city/county job)

• County/Township Parks and Recreation

• Plant pathology. Working on understanding plant diseases.

• Fire ecologist

• Collections work in museums

• Airport biologist-managing wildlife hazards to planes

• Park naturalist

• Entomology. Insects are so important and yet tend to get overlooked

• Children/teen STEM camps or academic programs/activities

• Habitat connectivity

• Construction biological monitoring

• Environmental education/outreach

• Medical entomology

• Visitor’s service/hospitality roles

• Wildlife genetics

• Bioacoustics. Very important and few people know what it is

• Conservation dog work/sample collection

• Consulting

• Wildlife biology artists. Someone’s got to make those figures/diagrams/infrographics!

• Human dimensions-the human side of human wildlife conflict

• Natural resource planner. Mix of biology/ecology/environmental science

• Rangeland ecology/management

• Molecular ecology

• Agriculture. State government runs working research farms with biologists and environmental scientists.

• Wildlife forensics

• Biosecurity officers

• State DOTs need biologists to ensure projects comply with environmental laws.

• Research in wild rodents in contrast to lab mice.

• Rangeland ecology-plants, wildlife, fire, and agriculture

• Biologist for the military. Most bases have full time biologists.

• Apiculture-beekeeping

• Land trusts-both national and state levels