Some of the highest paid biologists work in the District of Columbia for the federal government and earn a mean salary of $104,350 as of 2009. Maryland and Virginia biologists receive a mean salary of about $90,000 a year. Biologists in Salinas, California, earned a mean salary of $111,441.oologists and wildlife biologists who would deal with marine mammals earned a median salary of $55,290. According to the website Sea Grant Marine Careers, a fisheries ecologist would earn a median salary of $32,500 in 2009.
Definition of abdicate. abdicated. ; abdicating. intransitive verb. : to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function The king was forced to abdicate. transitive verb. 1 : to relinquish (something, such as sovereign power) formally abdicate a throne. 2 : to cast off : discard abdicate a responsibility.
The Duke, who reigned for 10 months as King Edward VIII before abdicating, had been ill for some time. The Duke defied the British Establishment to marry Mrs. Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American. The couple lived in virtual self-exile from Britain since the abdication.