Hey tore
I'm helping my brother choose his major and papers for uni this year and we've decided on a BSc specialising in ecology (specifically marine ecology) which consists of many ecology related and general biology papers, 2 environmental science papers, 2 marine science papers, a statistics paper, a biometry paper, a geography paper and maybe some geology papers.
So instead of doing a BSc majoring in biology and simply choosing marine/ecology related papers, he's opting for the ecology specialisation. The downside of this is that with all the extra non-bio papers, he won't have room to fit in any of the microbio/chem/biochem/cellular bio papers that are on offer in first year.
I never did biology at school (I was a chem/physics/calc/languages guy) so I can offer him little insight. I'm just wondering if there's much demand for ecologists and whether he'd be severely limiting himself by sticking to whole organism biology?
edit: maybe this should have been a PM
