Becoming an Environmental Research Scientist in Queensland

About this role

Environmental Research Scientists study and develop policies and plans for the control of factors which may produce pollution, imbalance in or degradation of the environment.

What you might do day-to-day in this job

Typical tasks for an Environmental Research Scientist include:

• studies effects of factors, such as terrain, altitude, climatic and environmental change, sources of nutrition, predators and impacts of humans, on animal and plant life
• studies and analyses pollution, atmospheric conditions, demographic characteristics, ecology, mineral, soil and water samples
• develops conservation and management policies for biological resources, such as fish populations and forests, as well as establishing standards and approaches for control of pollution and rehabilitation of areas disturbed by activities such as mining, timber felling and overgrazing.