Student Opportunities

  • Ph.D. position studying in oyster reef carbon cycling at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Deadline October 15
  • Two Ph.D. opportunities at University of Hawaii with Dr. Seth Bushinsky to start Fall 2022
  • A funded PhD position (https://sites.psu.edu/raulab/files/2021/09/PhDopening_Rau_PSU_2022_AquaticAggregates.pdf) is available with Dr. Matthew Rau (https://www.raulab.psu.edu/) at Penn State University to study marine aggregates, their response to ocean turbulence, and how their makeup influences transport in aquatic systems. The project will rely primarily on experimental and field work but will also involve reduced order modeling performed in partnership with collaborators. All educational backgrounds/experience will be considered. Contact Dr. Rau (matthew.rau@psu.edu) for more information. Application deadline is October 15 for Spring 2022 or December 15 for Fall 2022. Link to full listing: https://sites.psu.edu/raulab/files/2021/09/PhDopening_Rau_PSU_2022_AquaticAggregates.pdf
  • 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
  • Open position for an ocean carbon cycle related PhD project within Peter  Landschützer's group ("Observations, Analysis and Synthesis"). Closes September 15
  • IMPRS for Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 3 year contract. Application deadline August 23, 2021
  • PhD Scholarship in coral  reef biogeochemistry in Australia. Deadline July 21, 2021 or until filled
  • Coastal Biogeochemical Dynamics Lab in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut (UConn) seeks applicants for two fully funded MS or PhD positions in regional biogeochemical modeling to begin in Fall 2021
  • PhD project opening at Sorbonne Université in Paris to work on: the role of the upper ocean for global ocean heat storage and climate
  • ASLO will be hosting virtual writing sessions in April. Come connect with the ASLO community, while working on your thesis or analyzing data in a structured, yet flexible, setting
  • Fully supported PhD and MS positions available for Fall 2021 in Dr Sheri Floge’s Marine Microbial Ecology Lab at Wake Forest University. Still accepting applications - please email if interested in studying marine microbial food web impacts on carbon cycling
  • Calling all grad school applicants! Not sure how to prepare for interviews and virtual open houses? Check out these resources
  • UNOLS Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) program - Fall 2021 application coming soon
  • Shoals Marine Laboratory undergraduate course on Integrated Ecosystem Research and Management - summer 2021 in the Gulf of Maine, teachers: Michael F. Sigler, Ebett Siddon, Chris Siddon, Jennifer Seavey. Financial aid is available.
  • NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates program!
  • Seeking students interested in coastal ecosystems! Plum Island Sound LTER has 2 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) opportunities for Summer '21, options for a range of research topics
  • Dr. Nancy Williams is recruiting students for Fall 2021! Please 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • New DOE-funded coastal hydro-biogeochemistry project is hiring two PhD students at the University of California, Santa Cruz in Margaret Zimmer’s Watershed Hydrology Lab, to start summer or fall 2021
  • Two PhD students to join Dr Nagissa Mahmoudi lab in fall 2021 at McGill. One student will study deep subsurface microbes. The other will study microbial degradation of deep ocean DOC. Experience in microbiology would be asset for both projects.
  • 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
  • Spreadsheet of Oceanography MS/PhD Positions for Fall 2021
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The University of Massachusetts Intercampus Marine Science Graduate Program invites applications for an PhD-level graduate research assistantship to study ocean turbulence and biogeochemical fluxes in ocean oxygen deficient zones -- to examine the use of sustained autonomous observations for estimating the regional horizontal and vertical fluxes required by biogeochemical budgets--starting Fall 2021 at UMass Dartmouth.
  • ROSES-20 Amendment 67: Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) soliciting graduate student research
  • 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 2021, 2022, 2023
  • ASLO dissertation registry
  • LatinX has compiled active recruitment efforts in the Marine Sciences (from grad to PostDoc/Professional, and marine labs)
  • Graduate student tin Dr Natalie Cohen's lab at UGA in Fall 2021. Potential projects: evaluating the role of trace metals in shaping microbial communities, characterizing coastal phytoplankton physiology in response to micronutrient availability and investigating shifts in protistan metabolism across geochemical gradients through ’omic techniques.
  • 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
  • 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)
  • PhD position available in the Neuer lab https://www.neuer.lab.asu.edu/ at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ, in the context of a recent NSF award “Zooplankton mediation of particle flux” in collaboration with Leocadio Blanco-Bercial and Amy Maas, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. Contact Susanne Neuer Susanne.neuer@asu.edu.
  • List of Funded Organismal Biology MS Programs
  • Fully-supported graduate student (MS & PhD) opportunities in Dr Scott Doney's group at U. Virginia in ocean ecosystems, biogeochemistry & global carbon cycle with emphasis on computational approaches (data analysis, remote sensing & numerical models)
  • Funded PhD Opportunity in Physical Oceanography for 1-2 students to join Jacob Wenegrat's group in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at U. Maryland for Fall 2021. We like to use theory+super high-res models to try and understand processes that are hard to see/model in the ocean.
  • MS student for Fall ‘21 interested in Alaskan fish/inverts and genomics at U. Alaska Fairbanks with Dr Jessica Glass. Projects can span popgen, eDNA, & climate change, to start summer 2022
  • AGU Michael H. Freilich Student Visualization Competition Program - opportunity for students to demonstrate creative ways to use visualization to present complex problems in the Earth and space sciences as well as transdisciplinary sciences - apply by September 8
  • Contact sheet for potential Oceanography MS/PhD Positions for Fall 2021 - students view here, advisors enter contact info here
  • 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
  • Global Wetlands Project seeking PhD students to investigate biodiversity conservation, field ecology, ecological modelling, biogeography or wetlands ecology at Griffith University, Australia
  • Dr. Matthew J. Oliver at University of Delaware is looking for new graduate student(s) for Master's or PhD interested biological oceanography/ecology/robots/satellites. Application dates are somewhat flexible feel free to get in touch with any questions!
  • NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU): Division of Ocean Sciences

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

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