Job Opportunities As A Zoologist In Australia

Moving to Australia to work as an ornithologist?

There are not many jobs in Australia for ornithologists although there are thousands of amateurs. Biologists specialising in ornithology are employed by the Australian Antarctic Division. There are two or three on every voyage and they sit on the bridge of the ship observing and recording every bird that comes into view. Some spend time at the Antarctic bases studying penguins, petrels etc

You can find out more about the Antarctic Division and what it does here
http://www.antarctica.gov.au/

Birds Australia is mainly staffed by volunteers although they might have some paid jobs, you can check them out here
http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au/

Zoologist job description?

Zoologists are life scientists who study animals, observing them in the laboratory and in their natural habitat. They study the origin and development of species as well as their habits, behaviors and interactions. Zoologists, who also research the development of animal diseases, sometimes known as animal scientists or animal biologists because zoology is the branch of biology that deals with the animal kingdom.

Zoology is a wide field offering many career opportunities for research, especially because there still is a great deal to learn about it. A career in zoology offers an opportunity to make a difference to the planet’s ecology through conservation work. Most zoologists are employed by colleges and universities, where they engage in research and teach students.

Zoologist Career Hurt if I join Navy?

Definitely not. But the area you'll be working may be different, so you may need to do a post grad diploma or something to align you with primate studies. This is a good idea anyway since most of that kind of research is academic so you can only do it through a zoo or (most often) a university. If you are interested in breeding programs, there are perhaps more options than for behavioural studies. These are the only two fields where I think there would be some cross over between what you do with dolphins and endangered terretrial animals.

The other thing is you may find you really enjoy working with dolphins and want to continue with that. I was mainly into arboreal mammals (being in australia, we have some awesome ones) but did a bit of work on birds during my degree and found I became more interested in that. So you never know what awaits when you study.

Anyway, talk to the academics at your school about what you want to do and why you are considering the navy thing. There may be scholarship options you don't know about, or they can advise you on an online diploma etc you can do while finishing up with the navy that may bring you up to speed with the other species you'd rather work with; or maybe even prepare you for doing post grad study like a phd once you are finished.

good luck!

Is there a Zoologist willing to answer a few Questions?

Here's what my career as a Zoologist has entailed:

1) Advanced Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math, and English

2) About 10 years, but you can probably do it quicker if actually take the courses you are supposed to take instead of just the ones that interest you.

3) It can take a lot of memorization, but if you have a good memory it doesn't take that much work. Learning what the latin roots means helps a lot.

4) Mostly mosquitoes right now, but also a wide variety of insects that are pests on trees, as well as all manner of non-target aquatic organisms found in mosquito development sites, including amphibians and fish. Have also worked on small mammals, and bird surveys.

5) Not hard to work with mosquitoes, since you're generally expected to kill them anyhow, so no one minds if you forget a few in your truck over the weekend. They are also pretty easy to raise in the lab. You do tend to wind up in the heaviest infested mosquito swamps around, and get a LOT of mosquito bites. Usually a few wasps stings and horsefly bites a year too.

6) Drive around in a truck searching for mosquito larvae, bring them back to the lab and identify them to species, or collect adult mosquitoes for testing for West Nile virus. Identification can require long periods staring through a microscope. Surveying non-target organisms can involve clomping for miles through sloughs and bogs in wind and rain looking for little bugs in stinky water.

7) About 7.5 hours a day

8) Either a climate controlled (but cluttered) laboratory, an air-conditioned truck, or stomping through farmer's fields, ditches, willow scrub and swamps.

9) Working only for the summer, and thus having to work all summer long.

10) Clomping for miles through sloughs and bogs in wind and rain looking for little bugs in stinky water. I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.

11) Not very much. Especially if you're only doing it for the summer.