Graduate Students

Sea Grant Graduate Student Opportunities

A Unique, Educational, and Professional experience.

Sea Grant Graduate Fellowships

Sea Grant has many reputable fellowships specifically for graduate students that focus on professional development in budding careers for a variety of marine topics.

John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

The Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship provides a unique educational and professional experience to graduate students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources. The Fellowship, named after one of Sea Grant’s founders and former NOAA Administrator, John A. Knauss, matches highly qualified graduate students with hosts in the legislative and executive branch of government located in the Washington, D.C. area, for a one year paid fellowship. Over 1,500 fellows have completed this program since 1979.

Additional Opportunities

Sea Grant Program	Opportunity (click to learn more)	Category
National	NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship Program	Research
National	John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship	Policy
National	Coastal Management Fellowship	Policy
National	Digital Coast Fellowship	Policy
Alaska	Alaska Sea Grant State Fellowship	Policy
California	California Sea Grant State Fellows Program	Policy
California	Delta Science Fellowship	Research
California	Sea Grant Trainee Program	Research
California	California Sea Grant Extension Fellowship	Outreach
California	Delta Science Communication Fellowship	Communication
Connecticut	Coastal and Marine Economics Graduate Fellowship Program	Research
Delaware	DESG-DNREC Coastal Policy Fellowship	Policy
Delaware	Energize Delaware Internship	Research
Delaware	Delaware Center for the Inland Bays Internship	Research
Florida	H.A.R.V.E.S.T. Internship	Research; Applied skills
Florida	Graduate Student Coastal and Ocean Fellowship Program	Research
Florida	Aquaculture Communications Fellowship	Communication
Georgia	Georgia Sea Grant Legal Fellowship	Policy
Georgia	Research Traineeship	Research
Georgia	Georgia Sea Grant State Fellowship	Policy
Georgia	Academic Student Internship	Research; Outreach
Georgia	Summer Internship	Research; Outreach
Hawai‘i	E. Gordon Grau Coastal and Marine Resource Management and Policy Fellowship Program	Policy
Hawai‘i	Peter J. Rappa Resilient and Sustainable Coasts Fellowship	Research; Outreach
Illinois-Indiana	Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Scholars Program	Research
Louisiana	Graduate Interjurisdictional Research Award Fellowship	Research
Maine	Maine Sea Grant Graduate Research Assistantship Opportunity	Research
Maryland	Competitive Graduate Research Fellowship	Research
Maryland	Maryland Sea Grant Research Fellowship	Research
Maryland	Graduate Research Support Grant	Research
MIT	STREAM Grant — Solutions Through Research, Education, and Art in Massachusetts	Research
MIT/WHOI	Massachusetts Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellowship	Research
WHOI	Woods Hole Sea Grant Science Communication Fellowship	Communication
Michigan	Michigan Sea Grant Graduate Student Research Fellowship	Research
Law Center	Ocean and Coastal Law Fellowship	Research; Policy
New Hampshire	New Hampshire Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellowship	Research
New York	New York Coastal Resilience Law and Policy Program Summer Fellowship	Policy
Lake Champlain	Lake Champlain Sea Grant Partnered Fellowship Position	Research; Outreach
Lake Champlain	Watershed Alliance Internship	Outreach
North Carolina	Hook, Line & Science Communication Fellowship	Communication
North Carolina	NC STEM Policy Post-Graduate Fellowship	Policy
North Carolina	North Carolina Sea Grant and N.C. Coastal Reserve’s Coastal Research Fellowship	Research
North Carolina	NC Sea Grant/NC Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship	Research
North Carolina	Coastal Resilience Team Competition	Research
Oregon	Oregon Applied Sustainability Experience	Research
Oregon	State Legislative Fellowship	Policy
Oregon	Natural Resource Policy Fellowship	Policy
Oregon	Special Opportunities	Research; Outreach; Communication
Rhode Island	Rhode Island Sea Grant Law Fellow Program	Research; Policy
Rhode Island	Master of Environmental Science and Management Fellowship	Policy; Outreach
South Carolina	Kathryn D. Sullivan Earth and Marine Science Fellowship	Research
Virginia	Virginia Sea Grant Graduate Fellowship	Research
Virginia	Commonwealth Coastal & Marine Policy Fellowship	Policy
Washington	Washington Sea Grant Keystone Fellowship Program	Policy
Washington	Washington Sea Grant Hershman Fellowship	Policy
Washington	Washington Sea Grant Science Communications Fellowship	Communication
Wisconsin	J. Philip Keillor Wisconsin Coastal Management-Sea Grant Fellowship	Policy
Wisconsin	J. Philip Keillor Great Lakes – Wisconsin Sea Grant Fellow	Policy
Wisconsin	J. Philip Keillor Flood Resilience – Wisconsin Sea Grant Fellowship	Policy
Wisconsin	Wisconsin Sea Grant Keillor Fellowship in Aquaculture	Research; Applied skills
Wisconsin	Wisconsin Water Resources Science – Policy Fellowship with a focus on Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms	Policy
Wisconsin	University of Wisconsin-Madison – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Post Master’s Fellowship With a Focus on PFAS Toxicology	Research
Wisconsin	Research Assistantship	Research

Even More Opportunities for Students

Check our the resources below to learn more about how to launch your Marine and Coastal Career.

Florida Sea Grant posts a weekly job/internship roundup of marine and coastal jobs around the nation every Wednesday on their Facebook page.
MarineCareers.net: Marinecareers.net will introduce you to a wide range of marine career fields and to people working in those fields.
NOAA Opportunities: Find information about educational opportunities that are available throughout NOAA.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: WHOI offers a wide range of programs and opportunities for students and young scientists at all stages of their development.
NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center (LMRCSC): LMRCSC trains and graduates students from underrepresented communities in marine science for careers in research, management, and public policy that support the sustainable harvest and conservation of our nation’s living marine resources.
Undergraduate Student Pathways: Programs and professional development resources for current and prospective undergraduate students: research experiences for undergraduates (REU), scholarships, and travel and research opportunities.
Graduate Student Pathw ays: Programs and resources for prospective and current STEM graduate students — including funding opportunities and professional development programs and resources.
OceanCareers.com: Current information on career opportunities, the knowledge and skills required to enter these careers, where students can gain the necessary education, employers who hire people to work in these careers, and more.