Student Opportunities

  • PhD opportunity in coastal aquatic biogeochemistry and geospatial modeling. Review of applications begins immediately
  • Summer courses at Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
  • PhD scholarship on nitrogen cycling and nitrous oxide emissions from mangroves, salt marshes and seagrasses at Southern Cross University
  • Graduate student opportunities in dissolved gas biogeochemistry at the University of Connecticut Department of Marine Sciences for fall 2022 and beyond
  • PhD scholarships in aquatic greenhouse gas biogeochemistry in Australia
  • Ph.D. Graduate Student Position in Ocean Biogeochemistry at the University of New Hampshire
  • Two Ph.D. opportunities at University of Hawaii with Dr. Seth Bushinsky to start Fall 2022
  • PhD /post-doc positions available for the project: Ocean Fertilization by Dust – Studying how Marine Microorganisms ‘mine’ Nutrients from Dust - Air-borne dust is a significant source of the nutrients iron and phosphorus to the ocean, but its utilization by phytoplankton is constrained by rapid sinking and slow dissolution. Research by the Shaked group in Eilat revealed that the important marine N2-fixing phytoplankton, Trichodesmium, can capture and actively transport dust to the colony core and together with its associated bacteria “mine” nutrients from dust. Our research is highly integrative shifting between mineralogy to ecology, physiology, biochemistry, OMICS and bioinformatics, all with multiple enjoyable collaborations with research groups world-wide. We look for brilliant and original people from different disciplines, brave enough to endure some ambiguity as our multi-layered “in-situ” projects aimed at untangling the complex microbiome – particle interactions, sometimes evolve in unexpected ways. Yeala Shaked, Earth Sciences, Hebrew Univ & Interuniversity Inst for Marine Sciences. yeala.shaked@mail.huji.ac.il 054-8820093
  • Andrew Wozniak at University of Delaware has an opening for a grad student for research that fits squarely within SOLAS interests -- the biogeochemistry of surfactants at the air-sea interface. Apply immediately
  • PhD project opening at Sorbonne Université in Paris to work on: the role of the upper ocean for global ocean heat storage and climate
  • Calling all grad school applicants! Not sure how to prepare for interviews and virtual open houses? Check out these resources
  • NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates program!
  • Dr Nancy Williams is recruiting students e-mail if you're interested in studying the ocean's role in the carbon cycle using autonomous platforms.
  • Undergraduate internships (summer, paid) at Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, University of Georgia
  • Modeling the Ocean Distribution of Neodymium Isotopes: Testing the Bottom-Up Hypothesis project - grad student opportunity with Dr Andreas Schmittner OSU
  • MIT-WHOI PhD positions in chemical oceanography and other areas
  • Graduate student to join an NSF funded, multi-institutional effort to study ocean carbon cycling in the North Atlantic Ocean using observations from biogeochemical profiling floats and satellites, based at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • Two PhD positions available in the Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Lab at Boston College. The research projects will use cutting-edge stable isotope analyses to study modern and past ocean biogeochemical cycles and their interactions with climate. Prospective students are encouraged to contact Dr. Tony Wang (wangvt@bc.edu) to discuss specific research interests.
  • Smithsonian Institution intern to assist with developing an iNaturalist project to collect and serve to the public information on marine organisms observed at sites in the MarineGEO network.
  • Mystic Aquarium summer REU, 2022, 2023
  • PhD opportunities with Dr K E Lotterhos lab at Northeastern Univ
  • PhD: Global space-time variability in primary production and carbon flux using the Argo float network at NOC with Dr Stephanie Henson
  • PhD: Abyssal megafaunal resilience to deep-sea mining at NOC with Daniel Jones, Erik Simon Lledo, Jon Copley
  • ASLO dissertation registry
  • LatinX has compiled active recruitment efforts in the Marine Sciences (from grad to PostDoc/Professional, and marine labs)
  • ROSES-20 Amendment 67: Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) soliciting graduate student research
  • Solutions-focused graduate program the Coastal Science and Policy Program at University of California, Santa Cruz. We seek applications from, or recommendations of, emerging coastal science and policy leaders who are exceptional collaborators, young professionals, recent graduates, or grantees and who show leadership promise and passion to address opportunities and challenges from land to sea. 
  • Sustainable Oceans - From Policy To Science To Decisions  - National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT)
  • List of Funded Organismal Biology MS Programs
  • ASLO Guide for students on international collaboration
  • Online Conversations for Equity, Action, and Networking (OCEAN) aims to amplify early-career BIPOC working in marine environments in New England. Speakers will receive an honorarium and be supported by a mentoring team!
  • ASLO Guide for students on international collaboration
  • Hopa Mountain: The Native Science Fellows Public Database
  • Ocean Observatories Initiative has opportunities for U.S. graduate students see UNOLS Cruise Opportunity Program and sign up for our Early Career or Cruises of Opportunity mailing lists
  • NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU): Division of Ocean Sciences
  • ATTENTION NEW PHDs! ASLO is showcasing our graduating members through a Dissertation Registry. Members who have recently completed their graduate degree may post their information in this publicly viewable repository

Please send student opportunities to ocb_news@whoi.edu (include title, location, link to full listing and close date).

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