Breaking Waves

Check out several new fellowship opportunities, including the newly announced 2014 Knauss Fellowship:  http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/education/fellowships

Current opportunities

• REOPENED:  Oregon Sea Grant Natural Resource Policy Fellowship - Deadline: November 19, 2012.
• NOAA Coastal Management Fellowship – Deadline: January 25, 2013.
• NMFS/Sea Grant Graduate Fellowship Program in Marine Resource Economics – Deadline: January 25, 2013.
• NMFS/Sea Grant Graduate Fellowship Program in Population Dynamics – Deadline: January 25, 2013.
• Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships – Deadline: February 15, 2013.

Want to find out more what it’s like to be an Oregon Sea Grant Scholar? 

• Check out the Scholars Blog where you can read recent entries by our student scholars and their work, such as 2012 NOAA Coastal Management Fellow Kelsey Gianou.
• Also, check out the interview of 2012 Knauss Fellow, Jennifer Dresler in the latest issue of Confluence.
• And be sure to visit the Meet the Scholars page where you can learn about current and recent Oregon Sea Grant Scholars.

Applications due April 17, 2012 for the Oregon Sea Grant Summer Scholar program for undergraduates. The program will place students in a natural resource management agency and is designed to help prepare undergraduate students for graduate school and careers in marine science, policy, management, and outreach.

Read more at http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/fellowships/summer-scholars

To learn more about the Summer Scholars experience, visit our Sea Grant Scholars blog.

Oregon Sea Grant is soliciting applications for several current fellowship opportunities.

The NOAA Coastal Management Fellowship has just been posted,

two NMFS Fellowship opportunities are open,

and there are two additional NOAA opportunities.

Please visit our fellowship website for more information.

Announcing the availability of the Oregon Sea Grant Science Communication Fellowship.  The Fellow will focus on science writing at Oregon Sea Grant Communications, working in a professional office dedicated to communicating science to non-specialists.

For more information: http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/funding/fellows.html

Oregon Sea Grant is accepting applications for the fourth annual Robert E. Malouf Marine Studies Scholarship, open to graduate students enrolled at any college or university in Oregon working toward a degree  in a  field compatible with Oregon Sea Grant’s mandate and areas of interest.

Relevant fields could include (but are not limited to) biological, geological, physical and chemical sciences; marine resource management and policy; marine resource economics; social sciences; engineering; geology; education or public health.

This annual scholarship is intended to support the efforts of students focusing on marine-related   research, education or public engagement. The program is named for Robert Malouf, Oregon Sea Grant director from 1991-2008.

Applications for the 2011-2012 scholarship are due by 5 pm June 17.  The scholarship will provide up to $10,800 dispersed in 12 monthly payments beginning September 1, 2011

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