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Careers: A bit of everything

What jobs might Ellie do on a typical day?

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Ellie Watts (My role is senior aquaculture technician. It’s everything, from digging out drains to breeding the mussels, to doing a lot of data collection and analysing it, and setting up new experiments. So it’s everything - cleaning windows to larval rearing.

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Rights: The University of Waikato
Published: 29 November 2007
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