Sea Grant Scholar Fellowship
The Sea Grant Scholar Fellowship awards are a mechanism through which NYSG stimulates study and provides support, in the form of a stipend, to graduate students who conduct research relevant to projects funded through its Biennial Research Call. In this case, Sea Grant Scholars are fellows rather than employees, which saves some costs on the project’s budget. If the funded project is destined to be a master’s student project or a doctoral student dissertation chapter, then the Sea Grant Scholar Fellowship is recommended for those students. Sea Grant Scholar Fellowship stipends are pre-determined by the principal investigator(s) of the project and are based on the prevailing rates of the student's department at the time the project’s budget was submitted to NYSG for funding consideration.
John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
Since 1979, the National Sea Grant College Program has administered one of the nation’s most prestigious marine policy fellowship programs. The Knauss fellowship provides a unique educational and professional experience to graduate students who have an interest in ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources and policy decisions affecting those resources.
The program matches fellows with “hosts” in the legislative and executive branches of government for a one-year paid immersive policy experience in the Washington, D.C. area.
More at: seagrant.noaa.gov/knauss-fellowship-program/
NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship
Since 1999, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the National Sea Grant College Program (Sea Grant) have partnered on the NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship program to support Ph.D.-level students.
This fellowship is a focused workforce development program to train highly qualified individuals in Population Ecosystem Dynamics and Marine Resource Economics. The fellowship can provide support for up to three years for graduate students working towards a Ph.D. in quantitative programs, including ecology, ecosystem ecology, population dynamics, or related fields of study such as wildlife biology, fishery biology, marine biology, quantitative ecology, applied mathematics, applied statistics, simulation modeling, marine resource economics, natural resource economics, or environmental economics.
More at: seagrant.noaa.gov/nmfs-sg-fellowship/
Sea Grant Community Engaged Internship (CEI)
Since the Summer of 2021, this fellowship has provided training and mentorship in marine and coastal professions to undergraduate students from communities throughout New York. Interns receive an on-the-ground learning experience that includes professional development and completion of a project that extends the knowledge of community stakeholders to address a coastal, marine, or Great Lakes issue of environmental, economic, and/or social importance. NYSG has supported CEI fellows, who were students from colleges and universities throughout the state and engaged in projects ranging from monitoring phytoplankton in the Great Lakes to science art communications and projects working with hard clams, diamondback terrapins, wetlands, and with communities in New York City, Buffalo, Hudson Valley, and coastal Lake Ontario.
More at www.nyseagrant.org/ceifellowship.
New York Coastal Resilience Law and Policy Fellowship
Since 2020, NYSG has offered this fellowship in partnership with three law schools from across the State (CUNY, Pace, University of Buffalo) to provide law students with real-world policy experience, while providing coastal communities with information and products to enhance their resilience including (but not limited to) preparing toolkits and guides to translate legal knowledge; building community capacity to participate in decision-making; researching legal regimes and administrative practices related to coastal resilience planning and preparedness, and offshore renewable energy.
More at www.nyseagrant.org/lawfellowships.
Employment and Student Opportunities E-List
This list sends out Great Lakes, marine, and coastal-related employment and student opportunities. Announcements include such opportunities as fellowship announcements, graduate student and post-doc opportunities, internships, faculty positions, and positions at agencies, NGOs, industry, and academic institutions. Announcements are sent weekly. To be added to the list, fill out the request form: bit.ly/nysgoppselist.