OCB Postdoc Exchange!
A key objective of OCB is to train the next generation of ocean scientists and engage early career scientists in OCB and partner program meetings and training courses by providing travel and tuition support, networking, and mentoring opportunities.
Current and recent examples:
- GOOD-OARS Summer School, Penang Malaysia, November 4-11 2025. The school will be hosted by the Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies of Universiti Sains Malaysia (CEMACS) and is established under the Global Ocean Oxygen Decade (GOOD) and Ocean Acidification Research for Sustainability (OARS) programmes of the UN Ocean Decade. It aims to train the next generation of ocean oxygen and acidification scientists and researchers in the foundations of both fields, with instruction and lectures from world experts in a friendly setting for discussion. Apply by January 10, 2025
- Annual OCB summer workshop
- OCB scoping workshops
- Gordon Conference in Chemical Oceanography
- IMBeR IMBIZO Meetings (odd years)
- IMBER ClimECO Summer Schools (even years)
- SOLAS Summer Schools
- International Ocean Colour Coordination Group (IOCCG) Lecture Series
- International Ocean Colour Science Meeting (IOCS)
- Cornell Satellite Remote Sensing Course
- Univ. Maine Ocean Color Remote Sensing Course
- Training courses on ocean acidification
- Training courses on biogeochemical sensors
While we do not entertain individual requests for travel support, early career support is a high priority of bulk travel support requests submitted to OCB (see below for current opportunities). OCB strives to highlight the work of students and postdocs at its meetings and provide opportunities for interacting with federal agency managers and other scientists. OCB also maintains an early career position on its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC).
Early Career Opportunities & News
- Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
- Young Earth System Scientists community
- View our Jobs & Postdocs page for current openings
- View our Student Opportunities page for undergraduate, MS and PhD listings
Pathways to Science: Early Career Fellowships & Scholarships
Course call “Approaches and Tools for Numerical Modeling of High Latitude Ecosystems” DEADLINE EXTENDED – 15 MAY 2019 The Institute of Marine and Limnological Sciences and the Research Center Dynamics of High Latitude Marine Ecosystems – IDEAL of University Austral of Chile and the Research Center for the Oceanography of the Southeastern Pacific – COPAS […]
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Ocean Optics Summer Class Calibration and Validation of Ocean Color Remote Sensing Dates: June 3 – June 28, 2019 Instructors: Emmanuel Boss (coordinator), Ivona Cetinic, Curt Mobley, Collin Roesler, Ken Voss, and Jeremy Werdell. An intensive four-week, cross-disciplinary, graduate-level course in Optical Oceanography at the University of Maine’s Ira C. Darling Marine Center in summer […]
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NCAR Early Career Faculty Innovator Program The Early Career Faculty Innovator Program is a new funding opportunity for early career faculty in the social sciences and STEM outside of NCAR’s core expertise to co-develop interdisciplinary research projects in partnership with scientists and engineers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. The […]
Read MoreThe BIARRITZ (Bridging International Activity and Related Research into the Twilight Zone) workshop will take place July 22-26, 2019 at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton, UK. This workshop will bring together observationalists and modellers in a practical workshop to advance our understanding of the Twilight Zone by making best use of extensive current […]
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Beatriz Dias is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Environmental Conservation. Her work includes developing models to aid management decision making in Northeast US large marine ecosystem and Northern Brazil. Her work includes exploring different fisheries management scenarios effects on marine food webs and identifying monitoring priority areas for species of […]
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Dr. Qian (Lydia) Li is a postdoc researcher at the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE) of University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She received her PhD at Xiamen University (China) and spent one year as a postdoc at the University of Amsterdam before joining Steward’s lab at C-MORE. Her research interests focus on […]
Read MoreOCB recently approved a travel support request to provide travel stipends to help offset the costs for U.S.-based postdocs to attend the 2019 SOLAS Open Science Conference (April 21-25, 2019, Sapporo, Japan). OCB is seeking applications from interested U.S.-based postdocs who require financial assistance in order to attend the conference. Travel stipend recipients will be […]
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Nathalí Cordero-Quirós is a 3rd year PhD student in Climate Sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Advised by Dr. Arthur Miller, her current research focuses on the effects of El Niño Southern Oscillation over the physical state and biogeochemistry of the California Current System. She uses coupled climate models to evaluate the predictability of the […]
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OCB is providing early career support for the Ocean Optics XXIV Conference, October 7-12, 2018 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Are you an early career scientist looking for a perfect place to present your latest discoveries (and you need some travel support to do so)? Look no more – Ocean Optics XXIV conference registration is open, and OCB is offering […]
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Funding of early career US-based scientists to travel to the Ocean Biogeochemistry GRS and GRC in Hong Kong: Applications will be accepted until April 30, 2018 The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) program (us-ocb.org) will cover the GRC registration fees of 9 US-based early-career researchers, and other funds will cover their GRS registration fees and […]
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