Field botanist and it's zoological equivalent.

VSGPeanut101
Tue, 07 Oct 2014 12:54:14 +0000

Go to a college with a botany department, find a botany professor to take you on as an undergraduate research assistant. Take upper-level courses which include botany field work. See if you really want to be a botanist. If so, apply to graduate school in botany. Do field work for your graduate degree. Publish it. Get grant funding to continue doing this work after graduation. Most would at this point get hired as a university professor and teach part of the year/do field work in the summers. Ideally, you could get hired by the government or a natural history museum so you can do this work full time/not have to teach for a living as a professor. Now you are a field botanist.