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.
Abdication is the equivalent of resignation of a reigning monarch or pope, or other holder of a non-political, hereditary or similar position. President Nixon's last farewell gesture after his resignation in 1974. A resignation is a personal decision to exit a position, though outside pressure exists in many cases. For example, Richard Nixon resigned from the office of President of the United States in August 1974 following the Watergate scandal, when he was almost certain to have been impeached by the United States Congress.