>>12068549>The lack of work is more to do with the fact that there are very few human health and industrial applications to their research. If you can make strong connections with people at research institutes during grad school it’s definitely one of the more fulfilling bio paths you can take.100% this. The funding situation means there it is more limited, but certainly not impossible.
>>12068549>Is it possible to get a job in the field or is it just oversaturated with female nursing rejects who want to fuck dolphins?That will be 98% of the undergrad marine bio class freshman year, 5% of the graduating class, and 0.5% of the actual researchers who go on to a successful career.
Our marine bio program had "intro to marine science" basically be a weed-out class for dolphin-lovers, making it tough as shit and about all the wonderfully boring parts of marine bio.
Really cool field though.
