When the weather gets bad, you’re at your best. If there’s a lasting problem, you want to be the first to solve it. If this sounds like you, you are ready to become a Science Officer in the Navy Reserve. Serving in our force, you could navigate troop movements based on weather forecasts and ocean conditions, or, perhaps, research and develop new materials for military equipment. You could develop better medicines, or conduct studies of human and animal diseases to understand their causes and find treatments. If you are a master of math and science, you can explore new frontiers for the Navy, mankind, and yourself and your career, by bringing your talents to the Navy Reserve.

As a Science Officer, you may find yourself:

• Advising a rescue team about the ocean tides and currents during a search and rescue mission
• Assisting with top secret military research to develop human defenses against biological and chemical warfare
• Interpreting weather data received from satellites and weather balloons
• Preparing short-range and long-range weather forecasts
• Relaying forecast updates and violent weather warnings to military and civilian authorities
• Establishing strength and durability standards for materials used to build aircraft, ships, and other equipment
• Studying bacteria and parasites to determine how they invade and affect humans and animals
• Studying ways of protecting people through immunization from disease
• Studying the effects of aerospace flight, temperature, and movement on human physiology
• Studying food storage and handling methods

Qualifications
To qualify, you must have at least a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in any field of meteorology, engineering, chemistry, oceanography, geophysics, physics, or mathematics with at least 30 semester hours in meteorology.

To learn how you can become a Science Officer in the Navy Reserve, contact your local Navy Reserve Recruiter today.