Well, let me give you my view...
As for deciding for a biology career, Marine Biology is not the most
profitable one. There are little positions and a lot of competition.
Nevertheless is more profitable than Oceanography, you see, if you want to
be in a ship 3/4 of the year, you want to be an oceanographer. A marine
biologists is more of a lab freak. You will be learning how to deal with
ALL the newest equipment and software there is.
There is when a marine biologist looks more like an aquarist. We spend a
lot of time in the lab testing, testing and testing some more. Then we read
and test some more.
An aquarist is just a hobbyist that chose aquariums as it target hobby.
I mixed both looking for a cheaper way to built a sal****er aquarium with my
coastal experience and some experience working for the Department of Health;
Environmental Protection.
It is interesting how easy is to apply your lab knowledge to a custom
aquarium and how much money you save.
About your ankle, well, you are going to be in the lab not scuba diving, for
the latter, become an oceanographer.
In my case, I have two publications, one with the Journal of Marine Biology
of the University of Miami and the other as a comulative environmental
impact statement in the XVIII symposium of the natural resources of Puerto
Rico. Currently I am producing and editing a series of fieldguides of the
wildlife of the Florida Keys, an interactive software to help in the
delineation of wetlands in Central Florida and developing a maintenance-less
filtration system for small sal****er aquariums. I am also a step away from
entering a university in search of a PhD.
What does it all have to do with your knee? an accident destroyed half of
my left knee's ligaments, pressure-fracture my lumbar 1 & 3 and left me
partially incapacitaded, yet look at all I've accomplished.
Don't let any physical impediment be an obstacle in your life!
jrs
"AverageSchmuck" wrote in message
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Ok.. Forgive and forget sounds like a great thing you know and that is
well to everyone without exception.


However this discussion on Aquarists and Marine Biologists sounds
interesting to me if people can stop freaking argueing and dredging up
old stones from other threads .. Seriously I am about to embark on a
Biology degree and I am very very seriously thinking about going
towards Marine biology. I have a number of hurdles one being I can not
communcate well take a look at my grammer and spelling. Another
hurdle would be my physical problem with my right ankle not working
very well. I would be very interested in whatever information people
are willing to share on either side of these Aquarist and marine
biology seriously.