Check out this neat video portrait of Moises Bernal, one our of ichthyologists (fish biologists) at the California Academy of Sciences. Lots of neat details about what he gets to do as a scientist at the Academy, what makes his job fun, and why he does it.
"When you go to the field and you observe something, you start asking all these questions… and then you have to come up with ways to try answer that particular question. And in the end that answer might become part of the general human knowledge."