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Studying marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles in the face of environmental change
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Student Opportunities

  • Graduate student research fellowship (13 week residential experience) focused on ocean acidification impacts on blue mussel larvae, to take place at the Downeast Institute in Maine. Full details in the attached brochure.  Deadline March 1, 2023
  • I05 (32°S) Indian Ocean Student/Early Career Opportunity. US GO-SHIP is seeking 6 students to participate in the 2023 reoccupation of I05 (32°S in the Indian Ocean) (55 Days, July-September 2023). Details and information on how to apply can be found under News and Job Postings on the US GO-SHIP website (https://usgoship.ucsd.edu/) here: https://usgoship.ucsd.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/353/GO-SHIP_I05_2023_Student_Opportunity.pdf. Inquiries can be directed to Alison Macdonald (US GO-SHIP project manager, amacdonald@whoi.edu) and/or Brendan Carter (I05 Chief Scientist, brendan.carter@noaa.gov).

  • Two PhD positions available in the Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry at Southern Cross University in Australia. The project will measure CO2 and CH4 fluxes from dry and flooded drylands in Australia - apply by 29 January 2023

  • Internship opportunity at SIParCS technical projects | Computational and Information Systems Lab (ucar.edu) Apply by January 13
  • Masters and Ph.D. opportunities for microbial research at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel
  • Graduate Research Assistantships in Environmental Science, Tzortziou Bio-Optics Lab, Center for Discovery and Innovation, New York City. Reviews begins immediately.
  • Applications are now being accepted for the U.S. GO-SHIP Tracer Post-doctoral Fellowship. This is a two-year position designed to foster participation in analysis and collection of tracer data within the U.S. GO-SHIP repeat hydrography program. Fellows may (but are not required to) participate in a GO-SHIP cruise. Please find the further details on how to apply on the US GO-SHIP website: https://usgoship.ucsd.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/353/GO_SHIP_Tracer_POSTDOC_2022_Oct.pdf  Application deadline is November 15, 2022.

  • Fully funded Postdoc + PhD opportunities are available for those interested in viruses, environmental microbiology/aquatic ecology, and metagenomics at a Microbial Ecology Lab in Jan '23 as part of a new center integrating ecological and computational biology. For more information, check out this post: https://twitter.com/oceanmicrobes/status/1580584884418281472. Ongoing projects to kick off some ideas: https://sites.google.com/uncc.edu/microbial-ecology-lab/research. To apply: https://sites.google.com/uncc.edu/microbial-ecology-lab/join
  • PhD or MS position in biological pump sensor validation at the University of Maine, Darling Marine Center, Estapa lab. Link to full listing:  https://umaine.edu/estapalab/prospective-students/ Close date:  3/15/2023
  • University of Tasmania new PhD opportunity on the biogeochemistry of EAC eddies

  • Scripps Summer Research Opportunities

  • Scripps Graduate Application Assistance Programs. Opens 9/7/2022, closes 12/7/2022
  • PhD position on marine stable isotope geochemistry, University of Cologne, Germany
  • Two PhD students and a postdoctoral researcher wanted to study the marine biological carbon cycle under future global warming.  Further details can be found in the attached PDF or also under the following link: https://www.climate.unibe.ch/about_us/open_positions/index_eng.html Apply by September 20
  • PhD position on the Biological Carbon Pump at GEOMAR – the work is part of their EMS FORE project in the eastern Mediterranean
  • Opportunity at Jacobs University
  • Looking for M.Sc and Ph.D students: New microbial research. Microbes and aggerates: from marine to freshwater environments. The project integrates advanced laboratory experiments to field studies in marine and freshwater environments. For additional details: Prof. Edo Bar-Zeev: edobarzeev@gmail.com Dr. Eyal Rahav: eyal.Rahav@ocean.org.il Lab-scale experiments will be carried at the Sade Boker Campus, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Priority will be given to students with former background in microscopy, flow cytometry and bioinformatics. High scholarships will be granted accordingly
  • PhD in biogeochemical ocean modelling at University of Oldenburg (focus on dissolved organic matter and microbial interactions), 3 years. Closes July 25
  • The Osburn Lab at North Carolina State University seeks a creative, motivated Ph.D. student with interests in dissolved organic matter biogeochemistry and geospatial modeling to join a project funded in part by the North Carolina Department of Justice’s Ecosystem Enhancement Grant Program. The position will begin Fall 2022 and is funded for four years plus benefits and tuition support, through the cutting-edge Ph.D. program in Geospatial Analytics offered by NC State’s Center for Geospatial Analytics. The position will remain open until an appropriate candidate is identified.
  • 16 PhD positions in Future Earth Climate Change and societal challenges based at the University of Bologna in Italy.Positions have computational research, experimental approaches & field work. Appy by June 9 2022 by 11:59 pm CEST at https://www.unibo.it/en/teaching/phd/2022-2023/future-earth-climate-change-and-societal-challenges
  • 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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Funding for the Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry Project Office is provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The OCB Project Office is housed at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.