Overview
As a Science Officer in the Navy Reserve, you will utilize your love of math and science to explore new frontiers for the Navy and mankind.
Description
Direct troop movements based on weather forecasts and ocean conditions. Research new materials for military equipment. Develop better medicines. Or conduct studies of human and animal diseases to understand their causes and find treatments.
Specifics
- As a Science Officer, you may find yourself:
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- Assisting with top secret military research to develop human defenses against biological and chemical warfare
- Advising a rescue team about the ocean tides and currents during a Search and Rescue mission
- Interpreting weather data received from satellites and weather balloons
- Preparing short- and long-range weather forecasts
- Relaying forecast updates and violent weather warnings to military and civilian authorities
- Studying bacteria and parasites to determine how they invade and affect humans and animals
- Studying ways of protecting people from disease through immunization
- Studying the effects of aerospace flight, temperature and movement on human physiology
- Establishing strength and durability standards for materials used to build aircraft, ships and other equipment
- Studying food storage and handling methods
Training
Science Officer training is dependent on the field that the candidate selects.
More Information
Education — Candidates must have at least a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in any field of meteorology, engineering, chemistry, oceanography, geophysics, physics or mathematics (with at least 30 semester hours in meteorology).
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