Highly relevant tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Exploring how factors like land features, height above sea level, changes in weather and environment, food sources, predators, and human activities affect animal and plant life.
• Researching and examining pollution, air quality, population characteristics, ecosystems, and analyzing mineral, soil, and water samples.

Additional tasks may include: 

• Creating and trying out models of the environment by using understanding of ecology, math, statistics, and physical sciences.
• Carrying out evaluations or audits to understand the effects on the environment.
• Studying how groups of living things are organized and forecasting what might happen when human actions or environmental shifts disrupt them.
• Creating policies to conserve and manage biological resources like fish and forests, and setting guidelines and methods for controlling pollution and restoring areas affected by activities such as mining, deforestation, and overgrazing.
• Suggesting ways to tackle harmful effects on the environment.
• Creating graphs, charts, and statistics using data, analyzing the data, comparing them with the findings of other scientists, assessing the data, and writing reports summarizing the conclusions.
• Organizing and carrying out field trips to observe animals and plants in their natural habitats and collecting samples for further study in the laboratory.
• Helping to create policies, strategies, and guidelines for environmental management.