Day in the Life of a Marine Biologist

by David Paige

Follows a day's activities of a marine biologist as she studies and takes care of sea animals at an oceanographic institute.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[Sabil.imanecasablancaamericanschool.com]

A Day In The Life Of A Marine Biologist is a renowned,scientific novel written by David Paige. Lynn Walter is the protagonist in this book, she is a well known Marine Biologist in the United States. If you want to fill up your brain with interesting information well read this book. Throughout Walter’s daily life, she has an important planning sheet that keeps her up concentrated and motivated to do everything on that planning sheet for every day. First she collects many different sea animals like crayfish, shellfish, loggerhead turtles, normal turtles, sharks, prawns, fish, and worms. Secondly, she goes to the most important place in her work which is the Oceanographic Institute where Marine Biologists like her study, observes, and discover ocean creatures. She wants to know more about them so she researches for any injuries or sicknesses. She also takes care of them, feeds them, and looks for poison in the animal. In conclusion, Lynn Walter is a really important and helpful person for sea animals since she can sometimes save lives of these animals and help them recover from their sicknesses.

When I finished reading this book I asked myself many questions that I want to express in this paragraph. First I asked myself, How is this book related to science? Well first I know that it talks about Biology, specifically Marine Biology and I know that Biology is one of the three branches of science. The author is influenced in Marine Biology because in his book he stresses out the most important details about this type of science and he also uses examples with different sea animals and how the Marine biologist, Lynn Walter helped these sea animals. Different aspects of the novel shows the author’s interest. The author studied this type this type of science due to her love to marine animals as well as her care to the existence of different fish. As conclusion, the author influenced much of the story by using her own perspective.


To conclude, A Day In The Life Of A Marine Biologist is a novel full of interesting facts and helpful opinions of different biologists. This book is useful for a researcher because it shows different point of views of people around the world. This novel is recommended to all science lovers especially the marine admirers. It may be read by the two genders all ages but especially middle schoolers. This book will enrich your knowledge and enlarge your vocabulary. To conclude, this an awesome book and should be read by everyone.

[Alya Sekkat]

A Day In The Life Of A Marine Biologist is a capturing book written by David Paige. This book focuses on the life of a Marine Biologist named Lynn Walter. The main idea of this book is that it talks about the most important information and facts about specificaly what does Lynn Walter do for her job as a Marine Biologist. So to start, Lynn is a women that first collects sea animals such as crayfish, shellfish, loggerhead turtles, normal turtles, sharks, prawns, fish, and worms. Afterwards, she goes to the oceanographic institute where Marine Biologists study and observes ocean creatures. Lynn takes care of the sea animals, researches for any injuries or sicknesses and looks if the animal is poisonous. To end up, I am going to express some facts I learned while reading this book. First thing I learned is, that large jellyfish paralyzes its prey with poisonous tentacles that may grow until 40 feet and even divers that swim by them might be paralyzed and die. A last thing I learned is, that a loggerhead’s sharp beak is capable to crack open hard shell clams and other shellfish. To conclude, this book made me more interested into becoming a Marine Biologist.



The content in my book relates to a career in science by talking about a Marine Biologist and by talking about studying things and observing them. Marine Biology falls under life science beause it talks about life in oceans and in other water environments. The specific information in the book that can help me with my science fair project is that for the experiment I should always where proper close and gloves.To end up these are the answers for the three questions out of the 5 from Ms.Heil’s list (1-2-3).


The reader highly recommends this book to all people that are interested to become a(n) Marine Biologist. I also recommend this book for people that love sea animals and would like to observe them. A last recommendation is for the people that like swimming into the ocean to capture sea creatures. To conclude, these are my recommendations and the reader wishes you are the one to read this book and propose your friends to also read it and enjoy it !