Knauss Fellowships Offer Valuable Opportunity for Grad Students

If you’re a graduate student interested in ocean, coastal or Great Lakes resource policy, you could be a candidate for a Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship.

The one-year paid fellowships provide a valuable opportunity for selected graduate students nationwide to work side-by-side with legislators on natural resource policy issues. Each year, the Knauss program matches about 30 graduate students with hosts in the legislative or executive branches, or other institutions located in Washington, D.C.

Any student who is in a graduate or professional program in a marine or aquatic-related field at a U.S. accredited institution of higher education as of April 1st 2005 may apply for the 2006 term.

Interested students from Michigan should contact Dr. Jennifer Read at jenread@umich.edu or (734) 936-3622 for application details and deadlines.

Students outside Michigan should contact the Sea Grant program in their home state or contact: Nikola Garber at nikola.garber@noaa.gov or (301) 713-2431 ext. 124.

For more information see: www.miseagrant.umich.edu/research/grant-fellows.html#knauss

www.nsgo.seagrant.org/Knauss

Knauss Fellowships are sponsored by theNational Sea Grant College Program and NOAA. The program is named in honor of one of Sea Grant's founders, former NOAA Administrator, John A. Knauss.

Great Lakes Commission-Sea Grant Fellowship

Applications are also being accepted for the 2005 Great Lakes Commission-Sea Grant Fellowship, a one-year position based at the Great Lakes Commission offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The Great Lakes Commission-Sea Grant Fellow works to advance the environmental quality and sustainable economic development goals of the Great Lakes states.

Eligible applicants include students who, at the time of application, are in a graduate or professional degree program in a marine or aquatic-related field at a U.S. accredited institution of higher education.

The GLC-SG Fellowship is sponsored by the Great Lakes Commission, NOAA National Sea Grant and the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network.

For more information, contact Michael J. Donahue at mdonahue@glc.org or (734) 971-9135 or see: www.glc.org

Coastal Management Fellowship

Coastal Management Fellowships offer another opportunity for qualified post-graduate students.

The Coastal Management Fellowship was established in 1996 to provide on-the-job education and training opportunities in coastal resource management and policy for postgraduate students and to provide project assistance to state coastal zone management programs.

The program matches postgraduate students with state coastal zone programs to work on projects proposed by the state and selected by the fellowship sponsor, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center. This two-year opportunity offers a competitive salary, medical benefits, and travel and relocation expense reimbursement.

Application deadline is Monday, January 31, 2005.

For more information, contact the fellowship coordinator at csc.fellowships@noaa.gov or (843) 740-1263. See: http://www.csc.noaa.gov/cms/fellows.html