Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Careers Studying the Oceans

1. A deep-sea biologist and focuses on communities of animals that live on the skeletons of dead whales in the deep sea. Also deep-sea corals and seamount communities. How they evolve, reproduce, etc. They are usually studying near hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean.

2. A geophysicist makes about 80-130,000 a year depending on the degrees, knowledge, and experience. They travel to many places to observe all different locations of the bottom of the ocean never seen by humans. They work with seafloor maps and pictures using software programs to create undersea features.

3. A microbiologist does not get to travel to many places around the globe because their studies are very local. Culls more, for example, studies the titanic which was linked to microbial communities. Their annual salary can be from unpaid to millions depending on discoveries and determination.

4. In order to be a deep-sea ecologist you are required to have the minimum of a doctorate degree. Most have long work hours varying from 12-13 hours a day. The annual salary would be about 40-90K per year.

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