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Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists

Tools and Technology


Tools Include:

  • Still cameras (35 millimeter cameras)
  • Adjustable widemouth pliers
  • Entomological catching equipment (Aerial nets)
  • Air compressors
  • All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled (All terrain vehicles ATV)
  • Radio frequency transmitters or receivers (Animal transmitters)
  • Sporting traps (Animal traps)
  • Archery bows
  • Axes
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Water samplers (Benthic samplers)
  • Binoculars
  • Boat Trailer (Boat trailers)
  • Commercial fishing nets (Bongo nets)
  • Calorimeters
  • Canoes or kayaks (Canoes)
  • Single gas monitors (Carbon dioxide CO2 monitors)
  • Safety harnesses or belts (Climbing belts)
  • Clinometers
  • Compasses
  • Binocular light compound microscopes (Compound binocular light microscopes)
  • Binocular light compound microscopes (Compound microscopes)
  • Conductivity meters
  • Counters (Counting chambers)
  • Sporting traps (Culvert traps)
  • Commercial fishing nets (D-ring nets)
  • Air rifles or air handguns (Dart guns)
  • Portable data input terminals (Dataloggers)
  • Desktop computers
  • Digital cameras
  • Commercial fishing nets (Dip net samplers)
  • Stereo or dissecting light microscopes (Dissecting microscopes)
  • Dissection kits or supplies (Dissecting tools)
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Dropping pipettes
  • Drying cabinets or ovens (Drying ovens)
  • Masks or accessories (Dust masks)
  • Egg inspection or collecting equipment (Egg candlers)
  • Water samplers (Ekman dredges)
  • Ladders (Extension ladders)
  • Surface thermometers (Field thermometers)
  • Pisciculture supplies (Fish traps)
  • Flow sensors (Flow meters)
  • Sample changers (Folsom plankton splitters)
  • Sporting traps (Foot snares)
  • All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled (Four wheel drive 4WD vehicles)
  • Fume hoods or cupboards (Fume hoods)
  • Global positioning system receivers (Geodetic ground global positioning system GPS receivers)
  • Commercial fishing nets (Gill nets)
  • Laboratory graduated cylinders (Graduated glass laboratory cylinders)
  • Magnifiers (Hand lenses)
  • Hard hats
  • Commercial fishing nets (Jellyfish scoops)
  • Personal motorized watercraft (Jet skis)
  • Laboratory balances
  • Laboratory beakers
  • Laboratory forceps
  • Ultra cold or ultralow upright cabinets or freezers (Laboratory freezers)
  • Laboratory funnels
  • Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators (Laboratory mechanical convection incubators)
  • Rangefinders (Laser hypsometers)
  • Laser printers
  • Protective gloves (Leather gloves)
  • Flying insect control traps (Light traps)
  • Test sieves (Mesh sieves)
  • Tape measures (Metric measuring tapes)
  • Micrometers
  • Sporting traps (Mist nets)
  • Laboratory balances (Monopan balances)
  • Water samplers (Multiplate samplers)
  • Protective gloves (Nitrile gloves)
  • Notebook computers
  • Entomological catching equipment (Odonata nets)
  • Personal computers
  • Petri plates or dishes (Petri dishes)
  • pH meters
  • Photo attachments for microscopes (Photomicroscopes)
  • Commercial fishing nets (Plankton nets)
  • Handheld refractometers or polarimeters (Portable refractometers)
  • Radio frequency transmitters or receivers (Radio telemetry equipment)
  • Rafts (Rubber rafts)
  • Rulers
  • Safety glasses
  • Salinity meter (Salinity meters)
  • Specimen collectors (Scintillation vials)
  • Water samplers (Secchi disks)
  • Commercial fishing nets (Seines)
  • Diving instruments or accessories (Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus SCUBA equipment)
  • Test sieves (Sieve buckets)
  • Hammers (Sledgehammers)
  • Recreational motorboats (Small power boats)
  • Masks or fins or snorkels (Snorkels)
  • Snowmobiles or snow scooter (Snowmobiles)
  • Specimen collectors (Specimen collection containers)
  • Spectrometers
  • Telescopes (Spotting scopes)
  • Pull spring balances (Spring scales)
  • Surgical scalpels or knives or blades or trephines or accessories (Stainless steel scalpel blades)
  • Steam autoclaves or sterilizers (Steam autoclaves)
  • Dry heat or hot air sterilizers (Sterilizing ovens)
  • Entomological catching equipment (Sweeping nets)
  • Forestry increment borers (Tree corers)
  • Digital camcorders or video cameras (Tree top peeper and video probe systems)
  • Two way radios
  • Calipers (Vernier calipers)
  • Volumeters
  • Water pumps
  • Specimen collectors (Water sample collection containers)
  • Water samplers
  • Handheld thermometer (Water thermometers)

Technologies Include:

  • Analytical or scientific software
  • Computer modeling software
  • HATPRO
  • SAS software
  • Statistical software
  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Data entry software
  • Database management software
  • Microsoft Access
  • Relational database software
  • Electronic mail software
  • Email software
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Internet browser software
  • Web browser software
  • Map creation software
  • ESRI ArcView
  • Geographic information system GIS software
  • Mapping software
  • Office suite software
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Project management software
  • Microsoft Project
  • Spreadsheet software
  • IBM Lotus 1-2-3
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Word processing software
  • Corel WordPerfect software
  • Microsoft Word
  • Word processing software



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