Graduate student applications

An excellent guide to graduate school admissions process for the UC Santa Barbara Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science, but with information applicable to other programs.

The Hidden Curriculum presented by UW Madison on how to be a successful graduate student and the barriers faced when transitioning into graduate school.

Example applications for grad school apps (incl. NSF GRFP), postdoc apps, and faculty apps.

Funding for prospective and current graduate students

• Google sheet of funding opportunities

• The Johns Hopkins List of Graduate Student Funding Opportunities

• The Johns Hopkins List of Underrepresented Minority and Low-income Graduate Student Funding Opportunities

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

• NASA Graduate Student funding opportunities

• ROSES-24 Amendment 61: Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST)

• AGU Bridge Program

• AMS Graduate Fellowships

• NOAA Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program

• The William M. Lapenta NOAA Student Internship Program

• Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

• Link Foundation Ocean Engineering & Instrumentation Fellowship

• Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship (1 year policy fellowship in Washington, D.C.)

• NSF NCAR’s Advanced Study Program’s Graduate Visitor Program (GVP) Fellowship

• American Association of University Women

• DOE Office of Science graduate student research

• ASLO SciCom Internship

• ASLO Multicultural Program

Open positions for prospective and graduating students

• Active recruitment efforts in Marine Sciences (compiled by LatinX)

• Available graduate positions in oceanography/marine science

• Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry job and postdoc list

• ECO magazine ocean career list

Training pportunities for graduate students

• UNOLS Cruise Opportunity program mailing list

• UNOLS Chief Scientist Training Cruise Program

• NASA/UMaine Calibration & Validation for Ocean Color Remote Sensing summer workshop

• Cornell Satellite Remote Sensing summer course

• MBL Microbial Diversity

• MBARI Summer Internships

• Summer courses at Friday Harbor Labs

• US CLIVAR Ocean Uncertainty Quantification Summer SChool

Community and support networks

• Black in Marine Science

• Black in Geoscience

• National Association of Black Geoscientists

• BWEEMS (Black Women in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Science)

• Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native American in Science

• LatinX in the Marine Sciences

• GeoLatinas

• Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Geosciences

• Association of Filipino Scientists in America

• The International Association for Geoscience Diversity

• American Indian Science and Engineering Society

• 500 Queer Scientists

• 500 Women Scientists

• Society for Women in Marine Science

• Earth Science Women’s Network

• Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention (MPOWIR)