Wanna-be a Marine Biologist? Here is How
Useful tips on how to become a marine biologist
“Oh my God! You study dolphins… How cool…!”
I can’t begin to say how many times I’ve heard this. It seems what I do, is something many people dream about. The adventurous, romantic life of a marine biologist, out in the elements, investigating the lives of these magnificent creatures in the freedom of the vast ocean…
I am fortunate indeed, and I wouldn’t exchange my life and career for anything. But people don’t often realize what goes into the job. For every hour I log at sea, there are probably at least five to spend in the lab back on land. The work is as long and hard as it’s rewarding, both on and off the water, but the many hours passed hunched over a desk as the clock ticks late into the night, analyzing, writing, correcting, rewriting, are where the less committed tend to weed themselves out of the vocation… (Excerpt from the book “Dolphin Confidential: Confessions of a Field Biologist”)
The number of emails, phone calls, social media messages I receive has diminished a little in the last years but they continue to come with regularity.
They are not only from students; they are from people in all walks of life interested in finding out how to become marine biologists. After spending over two decades with volunteers…
