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📍 Miami, Florida
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I'm a biologist and I do research in the
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Everglades National Park. I started off
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by doing research on fish
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at Dolphin Island Sea Lab that's connected to the University of South Alabama
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and then that experience persuaded me to go ahead and get my masters which allowed me to do research in the Everglades.
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My research is about this thing called flocculent organic matter
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it's similar to soil, but just looser
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and I specifically looked at how human activity and also climate change affected it's dynamics.
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How much do people in research make?
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With research it depends on the type of research that you're doing
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as for environmental research the salary usually starts at like maybe $55,000 but it could go upwards.
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What kind of jobs can you get as a researcher?
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You can become a lab technician, you could become a biologist, a wildlife biologist, ecologist, environmental scientist it's a bunch of different options.
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Why did you choose the Everglades to do research?
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I was always interested in the Everglades, and also Florida itself because it reminded me of the country that I grew up in which is Jamaica.