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Paleontologist

"Meeting dinosaurs" Nathan Weigner hour 4

Paleontologist"Meeting dinosaurs" Nathan Weigner hour 4
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Basic information about your career

  • Study of prehistoric life
  • Paleontology is also the study of evolution of life
  • Work all day at excavation site or till it closes usually 10 to 11 hours
  • Could be sent to other countries
  • Specific training for this career is geology
  • Limited time with friends and family
  • Require a minimum of a bachelors degree, and have taken biology and two years of foreign language
  • Also take these courses geology, statistics and probability, and trigonometry
  • Make $21.50 an hour
  • Make around $106,780 a year

Pros and cons of this career

Pros

  • Get good pay
  • Don't work at nights
  • Work in other countries

Cons

  • Far from family and friends
  • Work in hot temperatures
  • Work in other countries as well

What do you need to do to succeed in this career?

  • Must take biology
  • Minimum of 2 years foreign language
  • Geology
  • Statistics and probability
  • Trigonometry
  • Minimum of a bachelors degree

What colleges can you attend to earn a degree for this career?

Carthage college

2001 Alford Park Drive, Kenosha, WI 53140

Telephone (262)-551-8500

Pros


  • Private school
  • Not many students
  • In Wisconsin
  • Near family

Cons


  • Cost a lot of money
  • 72 acres

North Dakota state university

1340 North university avenue Fargo, ND 58108

Telephone (701)-231-8011

Pros


  • Located near the badlands where paleontologist go to find lots of fossils
  • Cost is cheap near $15,551
  • Has the study needed for paleontology which is geology

Cons


  • Does not have the highest pay for the United States for the occupation of paleontology
  • May have to travel to far places for a long time
  • Some of the work conditions may be a problem

University of Alaska Fairbanks


505 S Chandlar Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775

Telephone: (907) 474-7211

Pros


  • Is in associated with University of Alaska museum
  • Great landscape for paleontologist
  • Make more money in Alaska in the occupation of Paleontology

Cons



  • Working conditions may be difficult to those
  • Cost is not that cheap $27,920
  • Far from family and friends

Associations/Professional organization for this career

Paleontologist institution

1259, Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, NY 14850

Telephone: (607) 273-6623

Director: Allen Warren

Website: http://www.priweb.org/index.php?

Cayuga Nature Center

1420, Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca, New York

Telephone: (607) 273-6260

Website: http://www.cayuganaturecenter.org/

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If you loved Jurassic park then Paleontology is for you. You have to study the fossilized remains of plants and animals and study the evolution of them. Have to take a minimum of 2 years of foreign language, must take biology and geology, and have a minimum of a bachelors degree. There are some down sides to the career and they include not seeing friends and family for quite awhile and may have to travel to far places. Working conditions may not suite you. If you are interested in this occupation than you contact some of these schools Carthage college, North Dakota state university, and University of Alaska Fairbanks.