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The difference between an oceanographer and a marine biologist is very small, but yet there is a big difference, one that could affect into which career you'd like to go in.

both occupations study marine life and organisms, but in a different way. Basically, an oceanographer studies life in the context of oceanography, but a marine biologist studies marine species that live in the ocean and other salt-water environments

Take a group of fish for example. An oceanographer would study the impact some cold upwellings would have on the fish, whereas a marine biologist would study the reproduction of the fish.

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