Education
You must have a Doctorate or Master's degree in either biology or ecology.
Salary
About $16.00 is the starting wage for anyone in the career of a benthic ecologist. You could get paid up to $21.00 or more for having some experience.
Job Responsibilities and Duties
-Involved in research
-Do labs and explore the ocean in submarines
-Use knowledge of invertebrate taxonomy and perform specialized laboratory processing
-Collect, process and analyze marine sediment and benthic invertebrate samples.
-Look at the different effects of pollution
-Determine the health of invertebrate communities.
-Do labs and explore the ocean in submarines
-Use knowledge of invertebrate taxonomy and perform specialized laboratory processing
-Collect, process and analyze marine sediment and benthic invertebrate samples.
-Look at the different effects of pollution
-Determine the health of invertebrate communities.