r/oceanography

Hello all, I am going back to school this year to get my Bachelor's degree and I am seriously considering oceanography but I also have very little clue about what its actually like to be an oceanographer. Can those who are tell me what you love about it? What you dont like about it and would you choose something different if you could start over? Also, is this a job where you are gone a lot and have to be out at sea often?

Lately I’ve been thinking about something pretty basic. Not the usual “we need to get to Mars” talk, but this: if humans actually want to stick around for a long time, where should we be putting our real effort?
Look at the land. Almost nothing lasts there. A species that manages to stay dominant for even a few tens of millions of years is already rare. Climate shifts, ice ages, habitats getting broken up — the surface of the planet keeps resetting. A lot of the big animals just disappear.
The ocean is different. It’s been running more or less the same way for hundreds of millions of years. Coelacanths have been around for over 300 million years. Horseshoe crabs even longer. Things change very slowly in the deep sea. Temperature stays pretty steady, and the sheer volume of water buffers a lot of the swings. Plenty of creatures down there have quietly survived mass extinctions that wiped out almost everything on land.
We still barely know the deep ocean. New species keep turning up. Some of them look like they’ve been living the same way since before the dinosaurs. That kind of stability is hard to find anywhere else on Earth.
Space sounds exciting, but it’s completely untested. There’s no long-term ecological track record, no systems that have already survived for eons. Everything we build out there will be new and fragile. One serious failure and it could all be over. Land isn’t looking great for the long haul either — we’re already watching ecosystems unravel under the pressure we’re putting on them, and our ability to “manage” the planet is still mostly short-term and local.
If the goal is still being here in ten thousand or a hundred thousand years, you don’t put your main chips on environments that have never been proven. You put them on the one that has already survived everything the planet could throw at it.
That’s the ocean.
Not as an escape plan. As the environment we should actually learn from and eventually figure out how to live with — closed systems, energy cycles, ways of living that work with the water’s stability instead of constantly fighting the land’s instability.
People already make this kind of choice in their own lives. If you want to live longer, you don’t deliberately move to the place with the shortest average lifespan. You go where the conditions are better. Same logic applies to a species.
Land and space can be side projects. Fine. But if we’re serious about lasting, the main focus should be the system that has already passed the multi-hundred-million-year test. Everything else is still just theory. The ocean already ran the experiment.

Hi everyone!

I'm hoping someone here might have some suggestions.

I recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in biology with a focus on marine biology. During school, I also gained extensive editing and writing experience, including serving as a managing editor for student publications, interning with a minor publishing company, and publishing my own novel.

I've been searching for remote opportunities because they're the best fit for my current situation. I've looked through LinkedIn, Indeed, and many of the major job boards, but I've had a difficult time finding positions that seem legitimate or are still actively hiring.

I'm especially interested in roles like:

• Scientific or technical writing
• Journal or manuscript editing
• Research communications
• Environmental or conservation writing
• Marine biology support roles
• Science communication
• Content writing for environmental organizations

If anyone knows of companies, organizations, job boards, or even specific employers that regularly hire for remote positions in these fields, I'd be incredibly grateful.

Even if you don't have a specific job in mind, I'd love to hear where you've had the most success finding legitimate remote opportunities.

Thank you so much!

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Hi everyone!

I'm hoping someone here might have some suggestions.

I recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in biology with a focus on marine biology. During school, I also gained extensive editing and writing experience, including serving as a managing editor for student publications, interning with a minor publishing company, and publishing my own novel.

I've been searching for remote opportunities because they're the best fit for my current situation. I've looked through LinkedIn, Indeed, and many of the major job boards, but I've had a difficult time finding positions that seem legitimate or are still actively hiring.

I'm especially interested in roles like:

• Scientific or technical writing
• Journal or manuscript editing
• Research communications
• Environmental or conservation writing
• Marine biology support roles
• Science communication
• Content writing for environmental organizations

If anyone knows of companies, organizations, job boards, or even specific employers that regularly hire for remote positions in these fields, I'd be incredibly grateful.

Even if you don't have a specific job in mind, I'd love to hear where you've had the most success finding legitimate remote opportunities.

Thank you so much!