What are you looking forward to related to work in 2025?
Ask a Biologist Monday 12/30/24
Answers from Biologists:
Starting a raptor banding project and doing relocation/education at local schools.
Hopefully I will be leading bat surveys.
Seeing where my job search will take me.
Moving forward from the forest service into a new path. Attempting to stay positive.
Kicking off my project partnered with with Urban Wildlife Information Network.
Seeing my first batch of grad students defend.
Hopefully landing the seasonal gig of my dreams.
Starting my research.
Getting bumped up a pay level and no longer living paycheck to paycheck.
Starting my first lead tech position.
Hopefully getting some traction on a spring restoration project.
Getting to work outside (and enjoy the work I do).
Getting our new tribal and state led moose study started.
Rocket netting.
Hoping to get the contract for another 3 years of big camera trap study into small mustelids.
Learning a whole new science project.
Doing research for the first time (undergrad doing conservation science).
Settling into my permanent job, establishing relationships with my direct reports and colleagues.
Starting my first permanent biologist position.
Hopefully getting back to the roots of my passion and love for wildlife and the outdoors.
Hopefully getting a summer internship finally. Then graduating in the fall.
Seeing improvements on some critical grasslands habitat after a year of no cattle grazing.
Hoping to find a job. Living in Idaho and the current state of things is hard.
A new bat Motus project I’m starting at the border.
Graduating undergrad. Starting a tech position.
Finishing my master’s and hopefully getting some good work experience.
Learning how to do prescribed burns.
Massive bumblebee habitat enhancement project finally getting implemented.
I’m hoping to get a job, of any sort, and maybe start a master’s program in the fall.
Catching lots of fish and going down to one permanent job.
Last field season of grad school.
Going to bird birds in India.
Being proficient at ArcGIS Pro.
A bat mist netting training which will be useful for the upcoming listing of the tricolored bat.
Actually working as a biologist and getting to hire my own crew.
Doing a bat survey on an island in summertime with a group of colleagues. Work nights, beach days.
Fully using my vacation days.
Defending my thesis proposal.
Starting grad school.
Going on my first trip to a remote field site.
Hopefully leaving a toxic workplace and going back to grad school.
We will get the data organized and run. We will.
Being a tech in the herpetology lab I work in last year as a seasonal.
Hiring techs to work under me for the first time.
Starting my dissertation project.
Finding a new job with more consistent funding and workload.
Traveling.
A freaking paying job.
Having a full staff and not drowning in work.
Hopefully defending my thesis and getting tf out of grad school. I need a living wage.
15 years of school and 3 degrees later, actually finding a permanent job.
Getting my Wilderness First Responder certification.
Starting my first full time position.
Finishing a massive habitat management plan and seeing the first steps in action.
Advanced statistics course so I can level up my career.
A job in general, still applying.
Applying for PhD positions.
Writing my first biological assessments,
Working in animal nutrition and seeing if it’s what I want to study in grad school.
I was accepted into a climate focused training program to educate farmers.
A few new conferences.
A bird banding workshop so that I can help run the station I coordinate.
Hoping to get into grad school.
