Student Opportunities

Time-sensitive opportunities

• Four PhD Scholarships as part of the Transforming Climate Action Project are available at the Centre for Fisheries Ecosystems Research, Fisheries & Marine Institute, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada. Apply by January 31
• 2 PhD positions at University of Southampton, UK: Can nitrogen fixation contend ocean desert expansion? and  New players and dynamics of nitrogen fixation in the Arctic Ocean at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com Apply by January 8
• 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
• Graduate student position in polar oceanography or coastal systems research at Old Dominion University starting fall 2025 with Dr. Jessie Turner. If interested please email jturners@odu.edu with your CV or resume. Applications are due January 1, 2025 to the ODU graduate program.
• Seeking for a PhD student in Southern Ocean dynamics for Irina Marinov’s group in the Earth and Environmental Science department at University of Pennsylvania. Thesis project will be Southern Ocean focused, at the interface of ocean biogeochemistry, plankton ecology, physical oceanography and climate dynamics. Multi-disciplinary work may combine analysis of climate model output, satellite datasets and SOCCOM Argo floats, as well as improvements to our Climate Security Atlas. Aiming for collaborations on this project with departmental colleagues Leigh Stearns (glacier/iceberg dynamics) and Michael Mann (climate dynamics). If interested, please email your CV, statement of interests and transcripts and written samples By January 1, 2025 to imarinov@upenn.edu to explore fit. Group link here: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/oceans-and-climate/
• Multiple PhD and PDF positions available  at Dalhousie University- Ocean Carbon Climate Processes in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Open until filled
• Keeping up with Ocean Change: Using Robots to Push the Envelope in Ocean Carbon Observing," is now open for applications at the University of Southampton. This project offers a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge ocean robotics to advance our understanding of carbon cycling in the ocean. For more details on how to apply, please visit PhD Project Details. Deadline January 8, 2025
• Training call: NF-POGO-JAMSTEC Fellowship on GO-SHIP P4W for early-career scientists, technicians, postgraduate students (PhD/MSc), post-doctoral fellows. Application Deadline: November 1, 2024
• 5-year fully-funded Ph.D. assistantship: Illuminating the nitrogen and sulfur cycles using Biogeochemical-Argo floats at University of Miami. Apply by January 8
• US GO-SHIP is seeking to fill 5 student positions on its upcoming occupation of the meridional hydrographic line known as I09N aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson. The cruise is scheduled to depart in mid-March from Fremantle, Australia, and ~6 weeks later, arrive in Phuket, Thailand. Please find details on the available positions and how to apply in the full advertisement here. Contact: amacdonald@whoi.edu.
• Are you interested in being part of a growing cohort of graduate students to the new NSF-funded National Research Traineeship Program at the University of Maine focused on interdisciplinary ecosystem science in the face of rapid ocean change? Apply today: http://shorturl.at/WLuLR
• PhD opportunity combining high-thoughput metagenomics with stable isotope probing to link environmental microbes to biogeochemical cycling at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks. Start date flexible (fall 2024-summer 2025). Ongoing projects to kick off some ideas: https://sites.google.com/uncc.edu/microbial-ecology-lab/research Application due January 1
• The Marine Biogeochemistry Laboratory at Boston College (PI: Prof. Hilary Palevsky) is seeking a new PhD student to join our group working on research related to a recently funded NSF CAREER award.

Standing Opportunities

• Summer courses at Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences