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
Goldschmidt 2018 Student and Early Career Grants https://goldschmidt.info/2018/grants The Geochemical Society is actively seeking applications for student and early career grants to attend the 2018 Goldschmidt Conference in Boston. The society is significantly increasing the amount of funding available this year to support student/early career participation, as detailed below. Apply by March 30 if you […]
Read MoreThe Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) and Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) are pleased to announce that the POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowship programme for 2018 is now open for applications. The deadline for applications is 9 April 2018. The program is designed to promote training and capacity building leading towards a global observation system for the […]
Read MoreTravel Funding Available Limited funding to support travel to the 4th International Symposium on the Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans is available via a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. The purpose of the NSF grant is to […]
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The new Ocean Training Partnership (OTP) website is now ‘live’ at www.oceantrainingpartnership.org. The OTP is an international alliance of marine science organisations that coordinates shipboard training experiences. The current partners are now inviting institutions with spare capacity on research vessels, or Principal Investigators with spare berths on a planned research cruise, to get involved with […]
Read MoreEco-DAS XIII October 15-20, 2018, Honolulu, Hawai’i Application Deadline: 1 May, 2018 apply at http://eco-das.org/ The Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences symposium series is designed to: Foster sustained, cross-disciplinary interactions among the top new researchers in ecological oceanography and limnology, to the benefit of both the science and the researchers. Increase the success rate […]
Read More“Frontiers in Ocean Optics and Ocean Colour Science” Villefranche-sur-Mer, France (25 June – 7 July 2018) The 2018 IOCCG Summer Lecture Series, dedicated to high-level training in the fundamentals of ocean optics, bio-optics and ocean colour remote sensing will take place at the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), France from 25 June – 7 July […]
Read MoreThe Alfred Wegner Institute is delighted to announce its 5th year hosting the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence (NF-POGO CofE); providing world class education, training and career development programmes in oceanography. The 10 month training programme will take place on the offshore island of Helgoland and the UNESCO reserve Wadden Sea island of Sylt, Germany. […]
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The Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program (www.us-ocb.org) will support up to five U.S. students or postdocs to participate in this course, including tuition, travel, and housing expenses. If interested, please send your CV and a brief statement of interest (1 page max) to the OCB Project Office (hbenway@whoi.edu) by 15 March 2018. The statement should describe your interest in the […]
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OCB-sponsored participants of Univ. Maine Calibration and Validation of Ocean Color Remote Sensing summer course May 2017. Course resources, including lecture videos, are available online. Lionel Arteaga is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Jorge Samiento’s group at Princeton University. He initially studied Biology at Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela, where he analyzed the upwelling systems […]
Read MoreThe annual Austral Summer Institute (ASI) organized by the Department of Oceanography and the COPAS Sur-Austral Program of the University of Concepcion, Chile, provides training for a topic that is timely and of wide interest in the marine science community. ASI XVIII is organized around four courses, each one week long, that address different aspects of the general theme. […]
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