National Marine Fisheries Service - Sea Grant Joint Fellowships

The 2023 National Marine Fisheries (NMFS) Sea Grant Fellowship application period is now open. The fellowship provides three years of support for PhD students.

Focus Areas

Population and Ecosystem Dynamics The 2023 NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowship Program expects to award at least four new Ph.D. Fellowships to students who are interested in careers related to population and ecosystem dynamics of living marine resources and/or marine ecosystem dynamics. This fellowship focuses on the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing marine ecosystems, for assessing the status of fish, invertebrate, and other targeted species stocks and for assessing the status of marine mammals, seabirds, and other protected species. 

Marine Resource Economics (MRE) The 2023 NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowship Program expects to award one new Ph.D. Fellowship to students who are interested in careers related to marine resource economics. This fellowship focuses on the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing the economics of the conservation and management of living marine resources.

Timeline

• Applications from the Lake Champlain basin are due January 25, 2023 to Lake Champlain Sea Grant (seagrant [at] uvm.edu) by 5pm local time.
• Applicants will be notified in June 2023.
• Duration: start August 1, 2023 with funding for up to three years.

Award and expenses

The fellowship award, contingent upon the availability of federal funds, will be in the form of a grant or cooperative agreement of up to $58,533 federal dollars plus at least 20% in non-federal matching dollars. The award provided to each Fellow is to cover expenses related to project research, tuition, journal publication fees, academic- and fellowship-related travel, conference fees, online training, and workshops. 

NOAA Fisheries Mentor

To help achieve the goals of the fellowship, each Fellow will be required to work closely with an expert (mentor) from NOAA Fisheries, who will serve on the Fellow’s committee. The mentor may also provide access to research data sources and to working/laboratory space in a NOAA Fisheries research facility and/or research vessel, if appropriate. Staff lists and recent publications for each of the NOAA Fisheries Science Centers are listed on each Center's website, linked below. Applicants in the Great Lakes region or in an area without a NOAA Fisheries Science Center may contact a potential mentor whose research aligns with their own.  Alaska Fisheries Science Center (staff, publications); Northwest Fisheries Science Center (staff, publications); Southwest Fisheries Science Center (publications); Northeast Fisheries Science Center (staff, publications), Southeast Fisheries Science Center (staff, publications); Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (publications)

More Information

Summary of NOAA Fisheries-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship Program Factsheet (PDF) 

NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship Program website

Contact Lake Champlain Sea Grant Research Program Coordinator Julianna White (julianna.m.white [at] uvm.edu or +1-802-777-7017)

The National Sea Grant College program values diversity, equity, and inclusion in both our organization and the communities we serve. Through the NMFS-SG Fellowship, we strive to provide an educational and employment opportunity for students, regardless of race, color, religion, place of origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic status, disability or veteran status.