Field botanist and it's zoological equivalent.

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>How does one get a career as a field botanist? I know a regular botanist may entertain a few opportunities after college to possibly work a botanical garden - my dream being to work a the New York City Botanical garden in the Bronx - but how does one get the gigs of the verdant adventurer?</p>

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<p>Have you asked your HS instructors? Randomly inquiring about Harvard’s offerings doesn’t seem the logical first step</p>

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<p>Why pray tell do you think this is random questioning? Do you have a crystal ball where you can see me not asking my counselors?</p>

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<p>Matriculate at Fordham and you can likely realize your dream immediately. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.fordham.edu/images/academics/research/calder/fordham%20mag_naturalpartnership_nybg.pdf”>http://www.fordham.edu/images/academics/research/calder/fordham%20mag_naturalpartnership_nybg.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Go to a college with a botany department, find a botany professor to take you on as an undergraduate research assistant. Take upper-level courses which include botany field work. See if you really want to be a botanist. If so, apply to graduate school in botany. Do field work for your graduate degree. Publish it. Get grant funding to continue doing this work after graduation. Most would at this point get hired as a university professor and teach part of the year/do field work in the summers. Ideally, you could get hired by the government or a natural history museum so you can do this work full time/not have to teach for a living as a professor. Now you are a field botanist. </p>

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<p>Thank you peanut.</p>