Fellowships:

CIMRS First-year Marine Studies Start-out Graduate Research Assistant (2021-2022)

Application Due Date: January 22nd, 2020 by 5:00 pm, Pacific Standard Time
Submit to:  LeAnne Rutland (LeAnne.Rutland@oregonstate.edu)

Purpose of Award: GRA salary and tuition is available to support a full year of graduate students that have research projects specifically focused on career futures with some aspect of Marine Studies related to the NOAA mission.  Applications that identify specific aspects of the NOAA enterprise, as well as NOAA and OSU colleagues with whom they would like to work, will be more competitive.

The overall goals of the Program are to 1) encourage talented graduate students interested in NOAA mission related careers; 2) increase available expertise related to living and non-living marine resource conservation and management decisions; 3) foster closer relationships between graduate students and NOAA; and 4) provide real-world experience to graduate students that accelerates their career development.

Each GRA will be required to work closely with an expert (mentor) from NOAA who may provide data for the Fellow's study, serve on the student's advisory committee, and host a summer internship at the participating NOAA facility. Mentors will be from participating NOAA Science Centers or Offices.

Schedule of Dates:

  • Application due: January 22, 2020 by 5:00 pm PST
  • Position begins: Fall term, 2021
  • Period of Position: one year

Application requirements:

  • Cover letter (addressing your research project. purpose of fellowship, eligibility)
  • Resume
  • Letter of Support from OSU Faculty Advisor
  • Letter of Support from NOAA Mentor
  • Contact details for three professional references
  • Some example of your scientific writing

Eligibility: Prospective Applicants must be admitted to OSU’s graduate program demonstrated by a signed letter from the institution indicating provisional acceptance to a graduate degree program conditional on obtaining financial support such as this GRA position.  Please to the awardee is responsible for obtain funding beyond the first-year.

Additional details available from LeAnne Rutland (LeAnne.Rutland@oregonstate.edu)

 

CIMRS Fellowship for Undergraduate Excellence in Coastal and Ocean Studies

Applications due to LeAnne.Rutland@oregonstate.edu by November 15, 2020.

Purpose of Fellowship: Two $7,000 fellowships are available to support undergraduate training associated with marine studies at Oregon State University. We encourage applications from students with interdisciplinary interests, such as intersections between social and natural sciences and natural resource management. Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies (CIMRS) intention is that this support is channeled toward those students who have future career interests related to some aspect of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) mission: Science, Service and Stewardship. The Science aspect focuses on understanding and predicting changes in climate, weather, oceans and coasts. Service means sharing or the communication of NOAA’s research, data, information for use by the Nation’s businesses, communities and people’s daily lives. Stewardship focuses on conserving and managing coastal and marine ecosystems and resources, NOAA directly using its knowledge to protect people and the environment. More details about the NOAA mission can be found at https://www.noaa.gov/our-mission-and-vision.

Applications that identify transdisciplinary learning interests related to specific aspects of the NOAA enterprise, as well as NOAA and OSU colleagues with whom they would like to work, will be more competitive.

The overall goals of the Program are to 1) encourage training opportunities for those interested in NOAA mission related careers; 2) increase available expertise related to living and non-living marine resource conservation and management decisions; 3) foster closer relationships between undergraduate students and NOAA; and 4) provide real-world transdisciplinary experience to undergraduate students that accelerates their career development.

The Fellowships provide $7,000 support for undergraduate students with interdisciplinary interests, such as intersections between social and natural sciences and natural resource management, working towards a BA or BS. Each Fellow will be required to work closely with an expert (mentors) from both NOAA and OSU who may provide data for the Fellow's study, serve on the student's advisory committee, and host a summer internship associated with a NOAA facility. NOAA Mentors will be from participating NOAA Science Centers or Offices.

Schedule of Dates:

Application due: November 15, 2020

  • Cover letter (addressing above)
  • Resume
  • Letter of Support from OSU Faculty/Advisor
  • Letter of Support from NOAA Mentor
  • Contact details for three professional references
  • Copy of informal transcript
  • Three examples of your writing to demonstrate your ability to explain concepts
  • Fellowship typically begins at the start of the OSU fall term, but could start earlier if needed (for example to accommodate summer work)
  • Period of fellowship: one year and will be awarded in two increments of $3,500 through student accounting to cover costs associated with attending OSU.
  • Student is expected to submit his or her work to a peer-reviewed publication and present it via a verbal presentation and/or poster session (e.g., State of the Coast conference).

Eligibility: Prospective Fellows may be from any marine-related program but preference will be given to those with interdisciplinary interests, such as intersections between social and natural sciences and natural resource management.

Additional details: available from LeAnne.Rutland@oregonstate.edu at 541-867-2059

Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies (CIMRS) (https://hmsc.oregonstate.edu/cimrs) represents a strong, long-term, NOAA-OSU partnership dedicated to research in marine sciences, graduate and public education, and cooperation with regional industries and communities that are dependent on marine resources. CIMRS is the only OSU research institute that provides both grant administration and personnel review in the manner of an academic department.

Research foci of CIMRS address living and non-living marine resources and involves programs that engage in environmental sampling or observing above and within the ocean as well as those that characterize seafloor geology, habitats and ecosystems. This focus encompasses broad fields across the marine environment including fisheries geological/chemical/biological/fisheries oceanography, ecology, ‘omics, ecosystem-based management, marine mammal and other acoustics, the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems, as well as social science aspects related to everything marine.

Marine Studies (https://marinestudies.oregonstate.edu/) undergraduate degree will explore the dynamic relationship between people and the marine environment—how people affect the ocean and, in turn, how the ocean affects humans. The degree program is for students who seek a liberal arts education and are keenly aware of the importance of the human dimension, broadly defined, of the marine environment in understanding the growing challenges and opportunities for the sustainability of our oceans and coasts. Students will gain expertise and understanding of the social, cultural and economic issues currently faced by coasts and oceans, at regional, national, and international levels, while grounded in foundational knowledge of the marine natural systems. This degree is currently under development, with anticipated availability in Winter 2020.

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has a 3-fold mission:

1. To understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans and coasts;

2. To share that knowledge and information with others; and

3. To conserve and manage coastal and marine ecosystems and resources.

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