What are you looking forward to next year?

Ask a Biologist Monday 12/25/23

Answers from Biologists:

• Looking for fieldwork after graduation.

• Starting grad school in a brand new state.

• My first year post PhD.

• Graduating with my master’s.

• Getting back to the Mojave. Super excited to head back and work on some restoration projects out there.

• Hopefully a job reclassification and raise. We are overworked and understaffed.

• Staring my own firm and getting to hire fantastic young biologists with fair pay.

• Going to Alaska and seeing whales again.

• Life post undergrad. Hopefully including a tech job in Alaska.

• Graduating college and starting a job out of state.

• Future field positions.

• Teaching ornithology lab and earning my MS degree.

• Getting my first seasonal job after graduation.

• Graduating.

• My work is hiring more people. Looking forward to a bigger team for our conservation charity.

• Mentoring undergrads for the first time and we get to do international raptor research.

• My students working through a camera trap on NWR.

• Defending my master’s.

• Starting my master’s program.

• My first oral presentation at a conference.

• Finally starting graduate school.

• Starting my new turkey tech position.

• Graduating my master’s.

• Publishing my first paper from my thesis.

• Figuring out what I want after my PhD.

• Finally getting my master’s after 6 long years and getting a decent job with it.

• Finding a direction for my career.

• Graduating my master’s.

• Finishing my PhD.

• My new role as lead biologist.

• Finishing out my contract and hopefully moving onto something new.

• Starting grad school.

• Starting grad school and my research.

• Hopefully finding a new job with better work culture/environment.

• My first real wildlife job experience.

• Hopefully leaving my current position.

• Getting to explore my new field area while searching for rare trees with awesome folks.

• New field experiences.

• The opportunity to collect awesome data and try to get published.

• Finally getting the 10+ years of data collected by my predecessors analyzed.

• Beginning my conservation career with my first job in the field.

• My first field season of grad school.

• Writing my book about Oklahoma natural history.

• Supervising seasonals for the first time.

• A better year now that I’ve started working on my mental health.

• Hopefully getting my first field tech position.

• Having a permanent job and not having to move for fieldwork.

• Working in Hawai’i.

• My first field tech position.