Marine Biologist

The oceans of the Earth take up 71% of the entire face of the planet, and a huge amount of life exists in it. From all of the plants and animals living beneath us, the task of learning more about the living organisms of the seas is taken on by marine biologists. As a branch of oceanography, marine biology tackles and covers areas of ecology, marine conservation, and fisheries science. Marine biologists are the people who handle and study everything that they cover.

Marine biologists take on the urgent task of studying living organisms that survive in the ocean, as well as other marine bodies of water. And in the study of marine biology, marine biologists often classify discovered species based on their environment instead of taxonomy. This is due to the many phyla, families and genera in biology that thrive both in land and water. Marine biologists study a wide coverage of living organisms, from zooplankton and phytoplankton all the way to whales (or cetaceans, as how they would call them).

The importance of the work that marine biologists contribute to the word include the supply of food and medicine, as well as researching on its effects on the nature of our planet. Their contributions impact the research we do on medicine and health, and determine certain information regarding our planet as a whole.