What is your favorite part of your job?
Ask A Biologist 5/24/21
I love getting to do education and outreach to share the info I know with others!
Answers from Biologists
All the cool rope work/climbing I get to do.
Climbing trees to get baby woodpeckers out.
Teaching kids about animal adaptation, behaviors, and showing them enrichment.
Getting to witness wildlife and work with it. Also knowing what I’m doing is helping the future.
Working with passionate volunteers.
Field work, but seeing people’s eyes light up when they learn something new is a close second.
Being able to see the whole state and its’ most remote rivers and looked over creeks.
Being outside/the wildlife.
Coyote fieldwork and hearing people’s coyote stories.
Being paid to watch the sun rise and cuddle wildlife.
SCUBA fieldwork! Working underwater never gets old.
I love the challenge of building relationships with farmers based on trust.
Being able to collect data revolving around an endangered species and help with conservation efforts.
Observing animals in their environments interacting much the same way people do. I find it fascinating!
Exposing others to wildlife and watching them change from being scared to amused.
Spending time outside and exploring places I wouldn’t go in my free time.
Being able to protect America’s wild places and endangered species.
Collecting and sharing information that directly affects policy for listed species.
Mine is field work! I am staffed but love getting out in the field when I can.
Being “forced” to go places I wouldn’t necessarily go on my own.
Getting to create work that helps threatened species.
Snorkeling! Love the rush of swimming face first downstream.
Getting to examine and handle animals close up, in ways I otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
Fieldwork. You can learn so much about an area just by going outside and observing.
Learning from landowners I work with to do private land conservation.
Getting to explore new places.
Constantly learning new things and meeting some cool wildlife of course!
Being alone in nature.
Scuba fieldwork! I love being underwater. Makes the stats part of my job worth it.
I love interacting with the public. And training animals for husbandry/medical behaviors.
My coworkers! Human and animal.
I love data analysis and visualization! I find it so rewarding after lab and fieldwork.
Managing populations to provide sustainable harvest opportunities into perpetuity.
Working with volunteers and seeing them learn things.
Seeing ecosystems return to native species after invasive species clean up.
My amazing coworkers!
Finding new different species every day.
Knowing my easement evaluations result in permanent federal grass easements.
Getting people excited about amphibians and reptiles. They’re underrated!
Engaging people in different steps of the scientific process. Warms my heart.
Knowing that I’m witness to magical things in the field daily that others may never witness.
Checking snake traps. It’s like opening a present!
Spending time outside and amazing vistas.
Knowing that my research will be used for applied management decisions/projects.
Getting to travel and experience wildlife almost no one gets to see.
Getting to restore functioning, biodiverse communities.
Learning something new almost every day.
Working outside and always having something new to do.
