The So You Want To Be A... series, a growing collection of career-exploration books for readers ages 10–14. Now with 50 books!
So You Want To Be A Shark Researcher: A Kids' Guide to Sharks, Marine Science, Ocean Conservation, and the Bold Scientists Who Study the Sea's Top Predators
Sharks have been in the ocean for more than 400 million years. We are only now beginning to learn where they go, and the answers are coming from people who spend far more time on data than in the water.
In So You Want To Be A Shark Researcher, readers ages 10–14 learn what studying sharks actually involves: satellite and acoustic tagging, tracking migrations, taking tissue samples, analyzing diet and reproduction, surveying populations, and building the statistical models that turn scattered detections into a picture of a species' life.
Young readers get the real path in — biology, chemistry, statistics, and coding coursework, dive certification, boat handling, volunteer and internship work, undergraduate degrees, and the graduate research where most shark science happens. The book also covers the conservation side, where science meets fishing policy and international agreements.
It profiles working shark scientists and researchers who changed how the animals are understood, and it is candid about the trade-offs: fierce competition for funding, seasonal fieldwork, long stretches at a computer, seasickness, and the difficulty of protecting species that many people still fear.
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