agricultural scientist
ISCO: 2132. Skills: 74. Essential: 53.
Essential skills
- advise on efficiency improvements
- advise on soil and water protection
- agroecology
- agroforestry
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- bioeconomy
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- create soil and plant improvement programmes
- cultivate crops for biomass
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- e-agriculture
- educate on recycling regulations
- environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry
- environmental policy
- evaluate research activities
- identify process improvements
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- livestock farming systems
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mentor individuals
- monitor the farm environmental management plan
- operate open source software
- perform market research
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- project management
- project management principles
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- provide advice to farmers
- provide advice to hatcheries
- publish academic research
- report on environmental issues
- report pollution incidents
- research design
- research livestock production
- scientific literature
- speak different languages
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- write scientific publications
Supporting skills
- advise on irrigation projects
- apply blended learning
- apply precision farming
- assess new farming technologies
- climate smart agriculture
- comply with farm regulations
- comply with legal regulations
- conservation agriculture
- consultation methods
- ensure compliance with environmental legislation
- evaluate employees work
- inspect project regulations
- integrated food-energy systems
- lead a team
- manage fisheries projects
- multidisciplinary research
- organic farming
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- train employees
- train staff on recycling programs
- use agronomic modelling