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Want to know more about careers in science? Browse through detailed information on dozens of careers to discover what scientists, engineers, and other STEM professionals really do and what it takes to prepare for these careers. Each career profile provides basic career information such as salary, job outlook, degree requirements, and more. We have also included videos featuring interviews with real scientists or on-the-job profiles.

They wrote down every science career they can think of...

Ed program promotes teaching atmospheric, oceanographic, and hydrologic sciences & activities to promote greater human resource diversity.

A collection of various websites dealing with the physics of amusement park rides.

Projects concerning real-time data: “Navigational Vectors,” “Gulf Stream Voyage,” “Musical Plate,” & more.

“Promotes environmental citizenship and year round progressive action worldwide.”

Investigate science and math with “gizmos.”

Engages K-12 students in a global study of migration and seasonal change. Find standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context. Note: Widely considered a best-practices model for education, Journey North is the nation's premiere "citizen science" project for children.

Access to data portals to projects and programs providing a variety of marine geoscience data types collected throughout global oceans.

Educators’ site to lesson plans, online projects, data gathering and scientific Web sites.

“Honors the women and men responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible.” Covers the areas of computers, communications, agriculture, electricity, chemistry, imaging, medical, industrial and nobel prize winners.

Data gathering

Collect data, organize it in an appropriate graphic form, and analyze it for the purpose of making weather predictions.

Federal science source about the Earth, its natural & living resources, natural hazards, & the environment.

Federal science source about the Earth, its natural & living resources, natural hazards, & the environment.

Lesson plans and activities: biology, ecology, cells, karyotyping, plant anatomy & physiology, genetics, DNA, genetics, etc. (Follow link in upper right corner for “LESSON PLANS AND ACTIVITIES”)

An interactive site, managed by the U.S. Geological Survey, which provides information about the water cycle.

Links to information and data concerning volcanoes and related natural hazards.

Federal science source about the Earth, its natural & living resources, natural hazards, & the environment.

The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion focuses on two primary objectives: 1. Advance and promote dietary guidance for all Americans ,and 2. Conduct applied research and analyses in nutrition and consumer economics.

Federal science source about the Earth, its natural & living resources, natural hazards, & the environment.