Being a marine biologist: dreams and reality


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Like many of my colleagues and friends, being a marine biologist was a childhood dream of mine. SCUBA diving, fishing, and aquariums all captured my imagination early on. Jacques Cousteau’s documentary films seemed to chronicle my ideal life. Like astronauts, marine biologists seemed to be tasked with doing the exciting and making fascinating discoveries. Although these things do happen in real life, most astronauts don’t walk on the moon like Neil Armstrong, and most marine biologists don’t spend each day diving with whales like Cousteau.