What are you looking forward to at work next year?

Ask a Biologist Monday 12/26/22

Answers from Biologists:

• Helping catch, breed and stock Muskie for the first time.

• Feeling more confident in the field.

• Just graduated undergrad and I’m starting my first job in January.

• Deploying radiocollars on bison.

• Submitting my thesis.

• Finishing my master’s degree.

• Working as a fisheries observer in beautiful Bellingham, WA.

• Remote salmon hatchery work in Alaska.

• Starting my thesis project.

• Hopefully finding a job.

• Starting my master’s.

• Learning to set up hair snare traps for bears.

• Surveying peat bogs in spring. Can’t wait to see everything come alive.

• Finding the right job.

• Surviving this PhD.

• Doing bird banding for the first time.

• My first gig post grad school.

• Banding for the first time and dong more in depth ARU work.

• Finding grant funding for a bit wetland restoration project.

• Finishing the 12 month probationary period in my new permanent position.

• Getting my bachelor’s.

• Planning a water science STEMinist summer camp for middle and high school girls.

• Taking the next step for my career (PdD or job, undecided).

• Getting green macaw conservation led by local communities in Costa Rica.

• Not stressing about things that don’t need stressing.

• Fighting for fair pay within our field.

• My first official job as a wildlife tech after graduating.

• Working on Artic fox population dynamics in Alaska.

• Hopefully finding a full time job in my field.

• Starting my field work for my MS.

• Spending the summer surveying mussels in the beautiful Grand River watershed.

• Achieving a real job as a conservation biologist.

• Exploring and documenting the flora and fauna of a new area.

• Offshore fisheries sampling in the Atlantic.

• Finishing my PhD (fingers crossed).

• Doing black bear den checks for the first time.