ENG 1001- 027
Exploratory Essay
16 February 2020
Biological Sciences
Biological sciences is the study of life. It is the study of living organisms, their living organisms, their life cycles and environment. Many of the different fields of studies include biochemistry, microbiology, and evolutionary biology. Pay rate for biological sciences? Who do biologist work with? What kind of animals will you be working with in biology? What are the benefits of becoming a marine biologist? Do you travel as a marine biologist? Does biology require a higher education? What environment will you be working in as a marine biologist? How many years of education do you need as a marine biologist? Is this field in high demand?
The pay rate for biological sciences is 31k to 110k yearly. Biologists work with science life professors and enjoy working with people whether it is in a classroom, research lab, the field, or even the museum. I love sea animals and their habitat, so I most likely will be working with the study of aquatic life as a marine biologist. The benefits of becoming a biological scientist include outstanding faculty, strong career outlook, opportunities for research, easy accessible pre health advising, and customize your pre medical curriculum. Marine biology is a field where you would require traveling. A good environment that I would work in in this field is the zoo where there is a field of study just for sea life. You will need a 4 to 6 year college education to get a degree in this field. This field is good in demand.
What benefits will I have becoming a biologist? Biologist have excellent human health and economies. There are many research programs to aim to sustain flow of these services. ‘Stakeholder’ engagement is a good tool to learning what services are a priority to the public and maybe integral to the success to the aquatic ecosystems management due to public participation in planning and decision making can make of broader support such as financial, intellectual, and labor for the management plan. The collection of data may be mandated such as ‘The Clean Water Act of United States’ which requires that bodies of water are classified as fisheries, drinking water, or recreation. Past evaluations with aquatic ecosystems have considered a wide range of factors that influence engagement. They have conducted a critical review of the literature on characteristics of the environment that influence stakeholder engagement and participation with aquatic ecosystems. To their objectives, it was too factors that should be considered in the creation of surveys to help encourage the inclusion and ecological and social beneficials uses data in large- scale water monitoring programs. Factors identified in their review were, “extent and influence place- bas knowledge; proximity to, and frequency of visitation of the resources being considered; basic demographics such as age, gender, education, and income, home community type; aesthetic appeal of the resource; and primary reason for engagement with the resource.” They propose such factors, with subfactors, as a template for their survey development.
As far as the salary in marine biology, Eco friendly crop would sell to chefs, ranchers and farmers. As of early last year 2019, Leslie Booher and Torre Polizzi, the founders of Sunken Seaweed, came down to Ensenada Mexico, and got into the offshore maricultural conference, in all hopes of meeting Paula Sylvia, the port of San Diego’s program manager of aquaculture, to speak about desire to help preserve kelp in California. They did a bunch of research to get started in California and met with other kelp farmers, and regulations in the state, costal conservation groups, the coastal commission and other regulatory agencies that have laws to get into the water to farm. They decided to put things into the water much faster, so knowing Paula would be there, they chatted with her as a receptive idea to advise to move forward and pursue this. Climate change is a marketable item. The mission to create kelp farms to boost biodiversity and create carbon dioxide into oxygen to help improve clean ocean health altogether. Eventually, the goal is to apply the kelp as biofuel, which will leave a smaller carbon footprint. From research, Booher and Polizzi discovered that 98 of kelp forests in CA have died due to climate change. According to spokeswoman Brianne Page, the demand for kelp is significant and the global commercial od seaweed market valued 10 billion in 2015 and expected to reach 22 billion by 2024.
As far as programs for biological sciences, summer is the busiest time and includes several activities. These activities include 4-H youth programs and produce meetings. Three years back, the Arkansas Extension Animal Science Department started offering internships opportunities for students. The internship occurs for 12 weeks with the salary compensation and housing if needed. Money for the internship are provided by both department and Extension director. Applications are accepted in the Spring. Interviews are held for the top 3-5 applicants and then intern selected. Interns spend the summer assisting faculty with youth programs and projects. They are usually not assigned to any one particular, but have good opportunity to gain experience from faculty members. Some notable results in the intern evaluations include: 75% had moderate to large improvement written and oral communication skills and 100% has a large improvement in general knowledge of extension. All interns indicate asks assigned were challenging, but attainable. They thought the internship was excellent and would recommend to others. They are more interested to work for Extension as a result of the internship, and believe the internship is a valuable education. From the perspective of the faculty, it is having an intern that is very valuable. An intern allows for more things to get done in a good timely manner. Suggestions for improvement are for more interns to be hired. Interns are a great way to introduce students to Extension and what Animal Science Department offers.
About animals I will be working with in marine biology. Dolphins are very quick animals. The louder and more elaborate tourist passing, the greater the performance before splashing back down. The common bottlenose variety maybe seen playing catch with clumps of seaweed or working collaboratively in groups to circle in on and whip fish up into the air to eat on. Dolphins spend a great deal of their time fishing and as an adult, may consume up to 30 pounds of more of a fish daily. Dolphins are known to dive as deep as 300 meters deep below sea surface. “Their bellies are built like surfboards”. They readily catch a ride on a bow wave and do so for many years. Ancient Greek sailors believed a dolphin riding in their wake was a good omen for a smooth voyage. Dolphins swim over 40 kilometers per hour. Dolphins can’t always swim the threats they face. Dolphins are quite chatterboxes with wide range of clicks and whistles their hearing maybe the most important asset with technique called echolocation. They have very good sense of smell, so eyesight and hearing are essential for hunt and survival. They can hear frequencies many times more than a human being. Dolphins are not so different from the animal bats. Dolphins are able to bounce high- pitched sounds towards an object and listen for the echo back allowing them to get a map of the environment and find food and navigate direction. Dolphins skin is very sensitive.
I recommend marine biology because it is an awesome salary and even more exciting job to take part in. You can work where there is much ocean and rich marine life so it makes summer and awesome part of your life year round. There are so many different fields of marine biology you can get into. There are so many different aquatic animals to choose from and I encourage college students to really get into the major career for a more exciting teaching and learning experience.
Works Cited
Top Universities Where You Can Study Biological Sciences. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/what-to-study/biological-sciences
Careers in the Biological Sciences. https://www.aibs.org/careers/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA7aPyBRChARIsAJfWCgK_267OyUWWDluWg5QiNZzIQU-3h42a68S-iKvi-8K9TAJoQVnDW08aAt5kEALw_wcB
10 Reasons to Major in Biological Sciences if You Are Planning A Medical Career. https://www.bio.purdue.edu/Academic/undergrad/10reasons.html
Factors Influencing Social Demands of Aquatic Ecosystems http://apps.webofknowledge.com.proxy.libraries.uc.edu/full_record.do?product=BIOSIS&search_mode=GeneralSearch&qid=25&SID=6B2ugngasRIQ3ijDt4I&page=3&doc=21
Co. Port Partner on Kelp Aquaculture Program
142 Providing an Experiential Learning Opportunity Through an Extension Animal Science Internship http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.libraries.uc.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=7&sid=e245aa38-045a-4762-be39-048023f9b976%40sdc-v-sessmgr03&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=138342403&db=eih
Dolphins (Toothed Whales) https://marinebio.org/creatures/dolphins/
ENGL 1001- 027 Writing Portfolio 
Introduction:
1. Does the author provide an interesting fact, analogy, quote, or other way to pull the reader into his/her essay?
(Hook) If not, how can he/she fix this?
The author provides an interesting fact in the beginning about marine biology. She states that there are three different fields within the topic.
2. Does the author provide a broad overview of their field? If not, how can he/she fix this?
The author gives a nice overview of her topic.
3. Does the author explain what drew him/her to this field? If not, how can he/she fix this?
The author does share what drew her to their field.
4. Does the author end the introduction with a list of questions that he/she hopes to answer by the end of the
essay? If not, how can he/she fix this?
Yes, she gives the reader a list of questions to think about throughout the essay.
Body
5. Does the author split this section up by source or by content? How can you tell? Are there any times when the author breaks this organization? If not, how can he/she fix this?
The author organizes her information by content, she has her most important questions answered first and the least important last. I honestly didn’t see when the author breaks their organization.
6. What are the author’s major sections – what topics does he/she cover? (Be specific).
The author mostly covers the programs, salary, benefits, and the education/requirements for their field.
7. Does the author explain positive things about the career that he/she is going into? If not, how can he/she fix
this?
The author does share positive things about their career.
8. Does the author explain negative things about the career that he/she is going into?
The author does not share any negatives about the field.
Conclusion:
9. Does the author provide advice to his/her reader? If not, how can he/she fix this?
She does give advice.
10. Does the author provide any extra information about his/her career? If not, how can he/she fix this?
The author doesn’t share any extra information about their field. I would suggest sharing more information about traveling.
11. Does the author explain any challenges they had when trying to find any information about his/her topic? If not, how can he/she fix this?
The author doesn’t share any of the challenges she had when finding her information. I would suggest sharing if she found it difficult to find information on traveling.
12. Does the author provide a closing thought to leave his/her readers with? If not, how can he/she fix this?
Content:
The author talks about how she recommends going into the field of marine biology.
13. Are there any questions from the Thesis that the author does not address by the end of the essay? If so, which ones? If not, how can he/she fix this?
The author does not address the topic of travel in her essay.
14. Does the author use a picture? If so, is the picture no more than 1/6 of the page? Also, does the author use no more than three pictures throughout the essay?
No pictures
15. Are there any sentences that are confusing or hard to read? If so, how can he/she fix this?
None of the sentences were difficult to read. Small grammar errors, but nothing major.
16. Does the author provide a topic sentence for each paragraph in the body? If not, how can he/she fix this?
Yes, the author provides a topic sentence for each paragraph.
17. Does the author provide a transition between each main point? If not, how can he/she fix this?
Yes, the author has great transitions for each main point.
18. Does the author use Times New Roman, 12 point font, with 1 inch margins and double-spacing? If not, how can he/she fix this?
Yes
19. Does the author provide a title? If not, how can he/she fix this?
Yes
20. Has the author included his/her name and page number on every page after page 1? If not, how can he/she fix this?
Yes
21. Does the author have a works cited page with at least 5 sources listed? If not, how can he/she fix this?
Yes
22. Is the works cited page in alphabetical order with a hanging indent? If not, how can he/she fix this?
No, she just needs to make sure that the titles are in alphabetical order.
23. Are there any other issues that the author needs to be aware of? If so, what are they?
No, I have addressed all that I needed to address in this assignment.
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