5th Hour - Careers in Biology

[Admin]

Visit Emporia State University's website at http://www.emporia.edu/biosci/carebiol.htm to investigate careers in biology. Select two to investigate and briefly describe what you learned about each. Make sure to include the following in your post:

1. Name of career
2. Number of years of education required
3. Projected salary
4. Reasoning/motivation for invesitgating this career

Make sure to respond to at least two of your classmates' posts in order to receive full credit for this discussion board.

Initial Post Due: Wednesday, January 5 at 11:59 pm
Response Posts Due: Friday, January 7 at 11:59 pm

[earthycolors]

Visit Emporia State University's website at http://www.emporia.edu/biosci/carebiol.htm to investigate careers in biology. Select two to investigate and briefly describe what you learned about each. Make sure to include the following in your post:

1. Name of career
2. Number of years of education required
3. Projected salary
4. Reasoning/motivation for invesitgating this career

The first career choice that I decided on was Botany, which is the scientific study of plants. To be a botanist, you need at least a bachelor's degree in botany. There are also masters and PhD degrees in botany too. The starting pay is 33,000 dollars a year, but after about 30 years of experience, you'll be making around 108,000 dollars a year. The motivation of most people wanting to go into this career is the love of plants and the study of plants, along with the enormous salary.

My second career choice is entomology, which is the study of insects. To be a certified entomologist, you need at least 2-4 years of college. The average salary of an entomologist is 51,000 dollars a year. The motivation of most people going into entomology is for the love of insects or the study of insects, while the salary would drive some away.

[whippersnappkid]

Why don't any of the interesting links work? =p

Oceanographer
4-5 years of College
$50,000 - $80,000 a year depending on
As an Oceanographer you would study marine life, ocean circulation, plate tectonics, and the chemical and physical properties of the ocean.

Forensic Science
Certification programs take about two years to complete
Low- $25,100 yearly High - $65,500 yearly
A career in forensic science would be right for anyone interested in solving crimes by collecting crime scene evidence and using natural sciences to analyze the data they recover. Most forensic scientists specialize in certain types of evidence like DNA analysis, firearm research, or examining hair and body fluid substances

[smiley11]

Ethology
3 or 4 years of college
$50,000 to $80,000
the study of the behavior of an animal and how these behaviors influence its
survival and reproduction.

Marine Biologist
4-6 years of college
about $45 to $110k
Specialist in the biology of marine life.

[NorthStar]

Visit Emporia State University's website at http://www.emporia.edu/biosci/carebiol.htm to investigate careers in biology. Select two to investigate and briefly describe what you learned about each. Make sure to include the following in your post:

1. Name of career
2. Number of years of education required
3. Projected salary
4. Reasoning/motivation for invesitgating this career
The first career choice that I decided on was biochemistry, which is the study of chemical processes in living organisms. It takes at least 4 years to get a bachelor’s in biochemistry at a college or university. The starting pay for a beginning biochemist is 40,000 to 45,000 dollars. If you are interested in the process of living organisms and the creation of new vaccines/cures biochemist is the career of you.
My second career choice is aquatic Oceanography, which is the study of aquatic systems. To be a certified Oceanographer you need an aquatic science degree with will take at least 2-4 years of college. The average salary of an aquatic science major is 77,890 dollars. If you are interested in aquatic life and the marine life system of the ocean this is the career for you.

[NorthStar]

Ethology
3 or 4 years of college
$50,000 to $80,000
the study of the behavior of an animal and how these behaviors influence its
survival and reproduction.

Marine Biologist
4-6 years of college
about $45 to $110k
Specialist in the biology of marine life.

I didn't know Marine Biologist could make so much money up to 110K that a lot and I'm very interested in marine life so, these career will probably be the perfect career for me. But it seems like it take some time to get that degree 4-6 year that's long compared to other degree in marine degrees.

[NorthStar]

Why don't any of the interesting links work? =p

Oceanographer
4-5 years of College
$50,000 - $80,000 a year depending on
As an Oceanographer you would study marine life, ocean circulation, plate tectonics, and the chemical and physical properties of the ocean.

Forensic Science
Certification programs take about two years to complete
Low- $25,100 yearly High - $65,500 yearly
A career in forensic science would be right for anyone interested in solving crimes by collecting crime scene evidence and using natural sciences to analyze the data they recover. Most forensic scientists specialize in certain types of evidence like DNA analysis, firearm research, or examining hair and body fluid substances

Forensic Science as always been an interesting topic to me I always love watch true TV and how forensic scientist help solve crime's with the smallest of evidence. I have always love science in school working with chemicals and etc. I really interested in these career but the salary is so low that not the projected salary I want for my long term career.

[biologyBROTHERHOOD]

Career: Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology

Education: Doctoral degree 3 to 5 years

Salary: Median—$54,840 per year

Motivation for investigating this career: Industrial microbiology or microbial biotechnology is the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by microorganisms. Which also creates useful products or processes and helps human race to get over its problems with microorganism like viruses and bacteria, fungi, algae and protozoa.

Other reason: "The number of job opportunities for microbiologists will increase at a rate as fast as the average for all occupations through the year 2014"



Career: Forensic Science

Education: Certification programs 2 years

Salary: $25 to $60K per year

Motivation for investigating this career: A career in forensic science would be right for anyone interested in solving crimes by collecting crime scene evidence. Forensic technician is fun and horrific job.

[snookieluvs2tan]

After some frustration with the links, here are the careers I liked the most:


1. Biologist
2.Bachelor's & Master's degrees
3. $60,000
4. I thought this career would be interesting becuase I have always liked science, and biologists can follow many different career paths.

1.Zookeeper
2.Some zookeepers go to college for 2 to 4 years, and study the sciences.
3.$21,550
4.I really love animals (hence Mr. Chino...haha) and I would LOVE to be around animals all day day becuase they are such intersting creatures.

[Siillee-Differenter]

1. Ecologists
2. Ecologists must have a bachelor’s degree with knowledge in organic and inorganic chemistry, biology, computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, and calculus.
3. $29,920 - $78,200
4. I choose this career because of the interest I have in relationships among organisms and between organisms and their environments. People always question certain things that happen among organisms and it would be nice to be that one to answer most of those questions.

Botany
4 years of college required
$33,000-$36,366 It really varies depending on your educational level.
My reason for investigating this career was because the major benefit of this job is being able to improve our medications and food supplies for the better. It's always good to know hat you are working to help someone get back healthy.

[londylou]

Career: Genetics Laboratory Technician

Number of years of education required: At least four

Salary: $18,000 to $36,000 or more, depending on the employer, geographical location,and the supply of and demand for qualified technicians

Reasoning/motivation for investigating this career: I am very interested in genetics (probably from playing the sims so much) and wouldnt mind having a career of it. Also werent the two main characters in Splice Geneticists? Yeah. . . that job would be amazing.


Career: DNA Analysist

Number of years of education required: four to six years

Salary: $62,000 - $75,000

Reasoning/motivation for investigating this career: I love watching Law and Order: SVU and how they always go to the woman with the curly hair (the forensic scientist) to help solve the crimes. I like to figure things out too, so this would be a good career for me.

[soccergal93]

1. Career - Oceanography
2. Education - A minimum of four years of college
3. Salary - Around $60,000 a year
4. Reason - Being an Oceanographer means you learn to study marine life. I've never been to an ocean, but everything about oceans and ocean life interests me. I would enjoy studying marine organisms and the way pollutants effect it, which falls under the field of a chemical oceanographer. Understanding how the ocean currents move around the globe and how the ocean affects climate sounds interesting to me.


1. Career - Ecology
2. Education - At least a bachelor's degree and be at least proficient in subjects like math, physics, computer science, biology and chemistry
3. Salary - Entry level salary=$29,920 a year. Average salary=$47,600 a year. And Maximum salary=$78,200 a year.
4. Reason - This career was interesting to me because I have an interest for outdoors and wildlife, I am good with communication skills and teamwork, and I also love writing, critical thinking and problem solving. To be an ecologist you have to study and observe animals and work to protect them. You collect and analyze data and have to be interested in nature and the outdoors.

[FounderofGFFandBabycat]

Marine Biologist
four to six years of college (NOT TRADE SCHOOL HAHA)
salary is about $45000 to $110,000 is k a thousand?
they have to specialize marine biology...obviously
i decided to choose this because when i was younger i wanted to be a marine biologist and i never really knew what all went into it.

Biologist (Ms. Hancock!)
must have a bachelor or/and master degree
salary is about $60,000
i liked this one because it reminded me of you ms. hancock lol

[Pr3ttyGurlRock12]

[u]BOTANIST[/u]
2.) Years of education : 4 years of college and your Bachelors Degree
3.) Salary: Average botanist in the U.S is $58,885
4.)Reasoning: I liked this career beacaus it deals with nature and get to find out new plants that are being discovered.

FORENSIC SCIENTIST
2.) Years of education: 4 year degree in physics, biology, microbiology,chemistry, medical technology, or genetics
3.) Salary: Between $35,000- $50,000
4.) Reason : I liek this career because its a career i am actually going into for college. Also because it breaks up into different parts, so that you can be in DNA or become a coroner.

[whippersnappkid]

4.) Reason : I liek this career because its a career i am actually going into for college. Also because it breaks up into different parts, so that you can be in DNA or become a coroner.

That's one thing I liked about Forensic Science, the fact that it's divided into many specific sections of work, so instead of having to do everything alone, you have a team with a person in each position skilled and specifically trained in that position.