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Sources: Career Center
Crimesceneinvestigator.org
Botany.org and http://myweb.dal.ca/jvandomm/forensicbotany/
Forensics Botanist
Aidan Naimool
22/02/2016
What is a Forensics Botanist?
A forensics botanist is a scientist who applies the study of plants to aspects of law
What does a
Forensic Botanist do?
A forensics botanist job is to study plants and sub categories of plants. Then applies what they found to law. Some example are:
- Study of pollen on bodies or evidence
- Studying under water plants
- studying environments
- Analyzing microbiology
A Forensic Botanists job is to study any evidence that involves plants to help determine what happened at the crime
scene.
Pollen found at a crime scene.
Employment Opportunities/Trends
Salary and Benefits
- Job opportunities should be more available in suburban areas or police stations close to provincial park
- With in the next couple of years there should be a gradual increase in job opportunities as cities expand and as forensics science becomes more sophisticated.
The average salary of a Botanist starts at $57 400 and can grow up to $93 400
If an employee has been working as a botanist for more then 30 years their salary
can increase up to $108 000
Working conditions
Forensic botanist can work outside or in a greenhouse if needed for specific cases but usually are stationed in labs.
- The labs are well lit and heated for the plants
- They are constantly working with chemicals
- They work office hours with the occasional night and weekend
How can you apply
Botany to law?
During 1935 a man named
Bruno Hauptmann was
convicted for kidnapping after several grains of wood from a ladder he owned at the crime scene
Education Requirements
Similar occupations
- Entomology
- chemistry
- toxicology
- molecular biologist
- microbiologist
- geographer
- Plant form and function
- plant genetics
- plant physiology
- Biology of plants
- plant geography
- advanced field botany
- organic chemistry
- college physics
Among others
full list is here
http://www.crimesceneinvestigatoredu.org/forensic-botanist/