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19-1023.00 — Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists

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Tools

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

Technology

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
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Project management software
  • Microsoft Project
Spreadsheet software
  • IBM Lotus 1-2-3
  • Microsoft Excel
Word processing software
  • Corel WordPerfect software
  • Microsoft Word

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