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Graduates With Their Environmental Health degree Move Into Green Careers With Online College Program Skills
Food science has become such a wide and diverse field of study it’s divided into three main specialties: soil, plant and animal. A student can generalize when obtaining his or her bachelors degree. Still, to truly be successful in this arena, you will have to go on for your masters and, eventually, a PhD. In order to get those, you’ll have to choose one of the three.
Not that there aren’t parallels, after all they are all about food. Inevitably, soil, plant and animal scientists end up working for the same places; food companies, colleges and research centers or federal or state agencies. They all work on creating new sources for sustenance, such as algae, examine preservatives and other additives for negative effects, create new, superior storage techniques among other issues. As one can imagine though, their approach is all dependent on the area of specialization.
As for the various specialties, the soil scientist studies the earth in regards to plant growth. Among the targets of their research is optimizing crop rotation, surveying land for what crops it will best yield, soil erosion and similar themes. Because soil science is closely related to environmental science, persons trained in soil science also work to ensure environmental quality and effective land use.
As soil scientists concentrate on the earth, plant scientists concentrate on vegetation. Also called agronomists or crop scientists, these specialists concentrate on such things as increasing crop yield, improving the nutritional value of various plants, plant diseases and similarly related matters. These days they are actually going old school, re-examining the works of Darwin and Mendel regarding the work of those pioneers on plant genetics. They are also quite cutting edge, examining how biotechnology can improve plants.
This leaves animal scientists, who focus on everything that sits on the top of the food pyramid. It should be noted they are not veterinarians, but disease is part of their milieu. They also look at such things as the effect of steroids on not only yield, but effects on consumption, genetics, breeding and often are also employed as health and farm inspectors.
Like Agricultural and Food Scientists, anyone interested in entering these fields should start with an on campus or online university that offers a solid four year program in the environmental, life, or biological sciences. One might also check with a college career counselor about the university’s post-grad program. Post-grad is where one specializes in one of these three disciplines, and if one can streamline a six year curriculum, that’s better.
Salaries depend in one’s area of specialization. It also depends on if one works in the corporate or public sector. For example, plant scientists working for a federal agency average $80,000 a year. Animal scientists, by comparison, make a little under $105,000. In the corporate world, animal scientists average over $55,000, while both plant and soil scientists average over $58,000.Interestingly, salaries are dependent on a number of factors. Animal scientists tend to earn more (up to $105,000 to $80,000) when they work for the government. Plant and soil scientists tend to do better in private industry ($58,000 to $55,000). All do come with excellent benefits.
Also, all of these sub-specialities are considered aspects of food science, which means they are careers with incredible futures for some time to come. There are definite problems that require the expertise of these scientists and others with their environmental health and safety degree and those who enter these fields via online course programs are at the forefront of the solutions.
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