Palaeontologist
Palaeontologist
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Job Description
Palaeontologists research and analyse forms of life that existed in ancient eras of the planet Earth. They strive to define the evolutionary path and the interaction with different geological areas of all kinds of once organisms and such plants, pollen and spores, invertebrate and vertebrate animals, humans, traces such as footprints, and ecology and climate..
Top 4 specific things you need to know
As a Palaeontologist, you will need to master following:
Top 34 general things you need to know
More generally, a palaeontologist is also versed in:
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply scientific methods
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- evaluate research activities
- geological time scale
- geology
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mentor individuals
- paleontology
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- promote inclusion in research
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- scientific modelling
- scientific research methodology
- speak different languages
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- think analytically
- write scientific publications
Other things it helps to know to be an excellent palaeontologist
It also helps to know the following:
- analyse experimental laboratory data
- assemble fossils
- botany
- conduct geochemical research
- develop scientific theories
- examine geochemical samples
- excavate fossils
- identify fossils
- interpret geophysical data
- locate fossils
- apply blended learning
- apply statistical analysis techniques
- biology
- chemistry
- collect samples for analysis
- conduct field work
- gather experimental data
- geophysics
- operate scientific measuring equipment
- oversee excavation
- perform laboratory tests
- record test data
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- work ergonomically
- write research proposals
Top employers for this job
Palaeontologist (0-2 Yrs Exp.)
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Prereqs Technology Pvt.Ltd
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California
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$250 - $800 / month
Full Time
Urgent
Private
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