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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Study the origins, behavior, diseases, genetics, and life processes of animals and wildlife. May specialize in wildlife research and management. May collect and analyze biological data to determine the environmental effects of present and potential use of land and water habitats. | Study animals in their natural habitats, assessing effects of environment and industry on animals, interpreting findings and recommending alternative operating conditions for industry. | |||
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Inventory or estimate plant and wildlife populations. | ||||
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Analyze characteristics of animals to identify and classify them. | ||||
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Make recommendations on management systems and planning for wildlife populations and habitat, consulting with stakeholders and the public at large to explore options. | ||||
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Disseminate information by writing reports and scientific papers or journal articles, and by making presentations and giving talks for schools, clubs, interest groups and park interpretive programs. | ||||
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Study characteristics of animals such as origin, interrelationships, classification, life histories and diseases, development, genetics, and distribution. | ||||
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Perform administrative duties such as fundraising, public relations, budgeting, and supervision of zoo staff. | ||||
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Organize and conduct experimental studies with live animals in controlled or natural surroundings. | ||||
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Oversee the care and distribution of zoo animals, working with curators and zoo directors to determine the best way to contain animals, maintain their habitats and manage facilities. | ||||
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Coordinate preventive programs to control the outbreak of wildlife diseases. | ||||
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Prepare collections of preserved specimens or microscopic slides for species identification and study of development or disease. | ||||
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Raise specimens for study and observation or for use in experiments. | ||||
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Collect and dissect animal specimens and examine specimens under microscope. | ||||
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Inform and respond to public regarding wildlife and conservation issues, such as plant identification, hunting ordinances, and nuisance wildlife. | ||||
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Check for, and ensure compliance with, environmental laws and notify law enforcement when violations are identified. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Biology | Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Clerical | Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Geography | Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life. | |||
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Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. | |||
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Law and Government | Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. | |||
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Communications and Media | Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media. | |||
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Chemistry | Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Science | Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Systems Analysis | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Systems Evaluation | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. | |||
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Mathematics | Using mathematics to solve problems. | |||
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Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. | |||
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Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | |||
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Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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Mathematical Reasoning | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Number Facility | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Computer modeling software | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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Corel WordPerfect software | Word processing software | |||
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Data entry software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Database management software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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ESRI ArcView | Map creation software | |||
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Email software | Electronic mail software | |||
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Geographic information system GIS software | Map creation software | |||
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HATPRO | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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IBM Lotus 1-2-3 | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Mapping software | Map creation software | |||
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Microsoft Access | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Microsoft Office software | Office suite software | |||
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Microsoft Outlook | Electronic mail software | |||
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Microsoft PowerPoint | Presentation software | |||
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Microsoft Project | Project management software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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Relational database software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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SAS software | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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Spreadsheet software | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Statistical software | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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Web browser software | Internet browser software | |||
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Word processing software | Word processing software | |||
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35 millimeter cameras | Still cameras | |||
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Adjustable widemouth pliers | Adjustable widemouth pliers | |||
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Aerial nets | Entomological catching equipment | |||
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Air compressors | Air compressors | |||
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All terrain vehicles ATV | All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled | |||
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Animal transmitters | Radio frequency transmitters or receivers | |||
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Animal traps | Sporting traps | |||
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Archery bows | Archery bows | |||
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Axes | Axes | |||
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Benchtop centrifuges | Benchtop centrifuges | |||
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Benthic samplers | Water samplers | |||
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Binoculars | Binoculars | |||
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Boat trailers | Boat Trailer | |||
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Bongo nets | Commercial fishing nets | |||
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Calorimeters | Calorimeters | |||
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Canoes | Canoes or kayaks | |||
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Carbon dioxide CO2 monitors | Single gas monitors | |||
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Climbing belts | Safety harnesses or belts | |||
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Clinometers | Clinometers | |||
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Compasses | Compasses | |||
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Compound binocular light microscopes | Binocular light compound microscopes | |||
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Compound microscopes | Binocular light compound microscopes | |||
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Conductivity meters | Conductivity meters | |||
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Counting chambers | Counters | |||
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Culvert traps | Sporting traps | |||
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D-ring nets | Commercial fishing nets | |||
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Dart guns | Air rifles or air handguns | |||
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Dataloggers | Portable data input terminals | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Digital cameras | Digital cameras | |||
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Dip net samplers | Commercial fishing nets | |||
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Dissecting microscopes | Stereo or dissecting light microscopes | |||
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Dissecting tools | Dissection kits or supplies | |||
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Dissolved oxygen meters | Dissolved oxygen meters | |||
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Dropping pipettes | Dropping pipettes | |||
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Drying ovens | Drying cabinets or ovens | |||
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Dust masks | Masks or accessories | |||
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Egg candlers | Egg inspection or collecting equipment | |||
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Ekman dredges | Water samplers | |||
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Extension ladders | Ladders | |||
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Field thermometers | Surface thermometers | |||
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Fish traps | Pisciculture supplies | |||
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Flow meters | Flow sensors | |||
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Folsom plankton splitters | Sample changers | |||
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Foot snares | Sporting traps | |||
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Four wheel drive 4WD vehicles | All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled | |||
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Fume hoods | Fume hoods or cupboards | |||
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Geodetic ground global positioning system GPS receivers | Global positioning system receivers | |||
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Gill nets | Commercial fishing nets | |||
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Graduated glass laboratory cylinders | Laboratory graduated cylinders | |||
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Hand lenses | Magnifiers | |||
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Hard hats | Hard hats | |||
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Jellyfish scoops | Commercial fishing nets | |||
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Jet skis | Personal motorized watercraft | |||
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Laboratory balances | Laboratory balances | |||
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Laboratory beakers | Laboratory beakers | |||
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Laboratory forceps | Laboratory forceps | |||
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Laboratory freezers | Ultra cold or ultralow upright cabinets or freezers | |||
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Laboratory funnels | Laboratory funnels | |||
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Laboratory mechanical convection incubators | Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators | |||
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Laser hypsometers | Rangefinders | |||
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Laser printers | Laser printers | |||
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Leather gloves | Protective gloves | |||
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Light traps | Flying insect control traps | |||
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Mesh sieves | Test sieves | |||
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Metric measuring tapes | Tape measures | |||
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Micrometers | Micrometers | |||
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Mist nets | Sporting traps | |||
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Monopan balances | Laboratory balances | |||
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Multiplate samplers | Water samplers | |||
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Nitrile gloves | Protective gloves | |||
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Notebook computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Odonata nets | Entomological catching equipment | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Petri dishes | Petri plates or dishes | |||
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Photomicroscopes | Photo attachments for microscopes | |||
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Plankton nets | Commercial fishing nets | |||
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Portable refractometers | Handheld refractometers or polarimeters | |||
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Radio telemetry equipment | Radio frequency transmitters or receivers | |||
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Rubber rafts | Rafts | |||
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Rulers | Rulers | |||
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Safety glasses | Safety glasses | |||
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Salinity meters | Salinity meter | |||
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Scintillation vials | Specimen collectors | |||
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Secchi disks | Water samplers | |||
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Seines | Commercial fishing nets | |||
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Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus SCUBA equipment | Diving instruments or accessories | |||
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Sieve buckets | Test sieves | |||
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Sledgehammers | Hammers | |||
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Small power boats | Recreational motorboats | |||
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Snorkels | Masks or fins or snorkels | |||
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Snowmobiles | Snowmobiles or snow scooter | |||
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Specimen collection containers | Specimen collectors | |||
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Spectrometers | Spectrometers | |||
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Spotting scopes | Telescopes | |||
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Spring scales | Pull spring balances | |||
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Stainless steel scalpel blades | Surgical scalpels or knives or blades or trephines or accessories | |||
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Steam autoclaves | Steam autoclaves or sterilizers | |||
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Sterilizing ovens | Dry heat or hot air sterilizers | |||
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Sweeping nets | Entomological catching equipment | |||
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Tree corers | Forestry increment borers | |||
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Tree top peeper and video probe systems | Digital camcorders or video cameras | |||
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Two way radios | Two way radios | |||
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Vernier calipers | Calipers | |||
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Volumeters | Volumeters | |||
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Water pumps | Water pumps | |||
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Water sample collection containers | Specimen collectors | |||
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Water samplers | Water samplers | |||
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Water thermometers | Handheld thermometer | |||
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pH meters | pH meters | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
On-the-Job Training | Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year | |||
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Required Level of Education | Master's Degree | |||
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Required Level of Education | Bachelor's Degree | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Animal Behaviorist | |||
Animal Biologist | |||
Aquatic Biologist | |||
Assistant Research Scientist | |||
Black Bear Project Leader | |||
Conservation Resources Management Biologist | |||
Cryptozoologist | |||
Dolphin Researcher | |||
Ecologist | |||
Entomologist | |||
Environmental Consultant | |||
Environmental Specialist | |||
Field Naturalist | |||
Fish Conservationist | |||
Fish Culturist | |||
Fish Technologist | |||
Fish and Wildlife Biologist | |||
Fisheries Biologist | |||
Fisheries Management Biologist | |||
Fishery Biologist | |||
Forest Service Wildlife Program Leader | |||
Game Management Assistant Chief | |||
Hatchery Superintendant | |||
Herpetologist | |||
Ichthyologist | |||
Lepidopterist | |||
Limnologist | |||
Mammalogist | |||
Marine Biologist | |||
Marine Scientist | |||
Migratory Game Bird Biologist | |||
Naturalist | |||
Nematologist | |||
Ornithologist | |||
Protozoologist | |||
Shark Biologist | |||
Terrestrial Ecologist | |||
Threatened and Endangered Species Coordinator | |||
Wildlife Biologist | |||
Wildlife Conservationist | |||
Wildlife Diversity Program Manager | |||
Wildlife Division Manager | |||
Wildlife Ecologist | |||
Wildlife Health Specialist | |||
Wildlife Manager | |||
Wildlife Program Manager | |||
Wildlife Technician | |||
Zookeeper | |||
Zoologist | |||
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