Fellowships

National Estuarine Research Reserve Graduate Research Fellowship
Academic level	Masters, PhD	Focus	Research	Duration	More than a year
Notes	The National Estuarine Research Reserve System’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program supports graduate students interested in coastal and estuarine sciences. By providing stipends, a living laboratory, and a broad network of fellow scientists, the Reserve system aims to encourage and enable talented young scientists to contribute to the knowledge base, provide the science to support coastal decision-making, and train future coastal scientists and policy-makers. For more information, see the program website.

National Physical Science Consortium: Graduate Fellowships in the Physical Sciences
Academic level	Masters, PhD	Focus	Research	Duration	More than a year
Notes	The National Physical Science Consortium is a partnership between government agencies and laboratories, industry, and higher education. NPSC's goal is to increase the number of American citizens with graduate degrees in the physical sciences and related engineering fields, emphasizing recruitment of a diverse applicant pool including women and minorities. For more information, see the program website.

NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Academic level	Postdoctoral	Focus	Research	Duration	More than a year
Notes	NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program has developed an outstanding reputation of attracting the best and the brightest PhDs in the sciences relevant to the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program. Appointed fellows are paired with host scientists at U.S. institutions to work in an area of mutual interest. The program focuses on observing, understanding, modeling, and predicting climate variability and change on seasonal and longer time scales. For more information, see the program website.

NOAA Coral Reef Management Fellowship
Academic level	Masters, PhD, Postdoctoral, Professional (MD, JD, MBA)	Focus	Research	Duration	More than a year
Notes	The NOAA Coral Reef Management Fellowship Program was established to respond to the need for additional coral reef management capacity in the U.S. Flag Pacific and Caribbean islands. The program provides the state and territorial coral reef management agencies with highly qualified candidates whose education and work experience meet each island's specific needs, while providing the individual fellows with professional experience in coastal and coral reef resources management. For more information, see the program website.

NOAA Fisheries/Sea Grant Fellowship Program
Academic level	PhD	Focus	Research	Duration	More than a year
Notes	NOAA National Sea Grant Office and NOAA Fisheries offer a Graduate Fellowship Program in two specialized areas: population dynamics and marine resource economics. Population dynamics is the study of fish populations as affected by fishing mortality, growth, recruitment and natural mortality. Ph.D. candidates interested in the population dynamics of living marine resources and the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing their status can receive up to three years of funding. Ph.D. students in marine resource economics, concentrating on the conservation and management of living marine resources, can receive two years of funding. For more information, see the program website.

NOAA Graduate Sciences Program
Academic level	Masters, PhD	Focus	Research	Duration	More than a year
Notes	The Graduate Sciences Program (GSP) is aimed primarily at increasing opportunities for students in NOAA-related fields to pursue research and educational training in atmospheric, environmental, remote sensing and oceanic sciences at minority serving institutions (MSI) when possible. The GSP offers between two years (master's candidates) to four years (doctoral students) of NOAA-related research and training opportunities. For more information, see the program website.

NRC Research Associateship Programs
Academic level	Masters, PhD, Postdoctoral	Focus	Research	Duration	Year or less
Notes	The mission of the NRC Research Associateship Programs (RAP) is to promote excellence in scientific and technological research conducted by the U. S. government through the administration of programs offering graduate, postdoctoral, and senior level research opportunities at sponsoring federal laboratories and affiliated institutions.

NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships
Academic level	Postdoctoral	Focus	Research	Duration	More than a year
Notes	The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) awards Postdoctoral Fellowships to highly qualified investigators within 3 years of obtaining their PhD to carry out an integrated program of independent research and education. The research and education plans of each fellowship must address scientific questions within the scope of EAR disciplines. The program supports researchers for a period of up to 2 years with fellowships that can be taken to the institution or national facility of their choice. For more information, see the program website.

NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes
Academic level	Masters, PhD	Focus	Research	Duration	Summer
Notes	An East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) award provides U.S. graduate students in science, engineering, and education: 1) first-hand research experiences in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore or Taiwan; 2) an introduction to the science, science policy, and scientific infrastructure of the respective location; and 3) an orientation to the society, culture and language. It is expected that EAPSI awards will help students initiate professional relationships to enable future collaboration with foreign counterparts. For more information, see the program website.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Academic level	Masters, PhD	Focus	Research	Duration	More than a year
Notes	The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce in the United States. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in fields within NSF's mission. The GRFP provides three years of support for the graduate education of individuals who have demonstrated their potential for significant achievements in science and engineering research. For more information, see the program website.