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Graduate Program in Atmospheric Science at Rutgers University with specific areas of research including causes and mechanisms of climate change, storm prediction, clouds, radiation, aerosols, and land-atmosphere interactions. Application deadline for full consideration for financial aid is December 15, 2024.
Graduate Program in Geography at Rutgers University with areas of interest including human geography, physical geography, and human-environmental geography. Graduate students participate in numerous interdisciplinary programs and research centers at Rutgers, including the various area studies centers, the Office of the State Climatologist, and more. Application deadline for full consideration for financial aid is January 15, 2024.
Graduate Program in Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers University. Application deadline for full consideration for financial aid is December 1, 2024.
Graduate Program in Marine Sciences at Rutgers University, with research opportunities in real-time studies in the coastal ocean using advanced underwater instrumentation; biological and geological processes at deep-sea hydrothermal vents; remote sensing and ocean modeling; advanced underwater optics and fish behavior; biodiversity and marine molecular biology; coastal geomorphology; organism-sediment interactions; cycling of organic and inorganic materials in the ocean; watershed ecosystems. Application deadline for full consideration for financial aid is January 1, 2025.
The Department of Human Ecology at Rutgers University offers the Human Dimensions of Environmental Change Graduate Certificate Program. The certificate program represents a collaboration among faculty from several graduate programs, and allows students to examine the political, cultural, economic, historical, and other human dimensions of environmental change while carrying out studies in an existing graduate program.
The Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution at Rutgers University offers graduate education and training in microbial, plant, animal, and human ecology. Application deadline for full consideration for financial aid is December 15, 2024.
The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University offers Graduate Programs to prepare students for careers in areas such as the design of healthy communities, community development, environmental and land use policy, political processes, regional development and planning, transportation policy and planning, and urban redevelopment. Application deadline for full consideration for financial aid is January 15, 2025.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rutgers University offers a Master of Science Degree and Doctor of Philosophy with areas of specialized study including geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, and water resources and environmental engineering. Application deadline March 1, 2025.
No scholarships posted.
Resources for the Future (RFF), request for Proposals for research projects evaluating the clean energy policies being implemented as part of the IRA and IIJA. Submissions due December 31, 2024.
New Jersey State Policy Lab (NJSPL), seeking Proposals for Research Projects that Evaluate Policies or Programs and Provide Policy Solutions for New Jersey. Research areas of interest: Economic issues, The environment, climate change, and transportation, Healthcare issues and Education, higher education, and childcare. Download and complete proposal template, save proposal using convention “LastName_FirstName_NJSPL_Proposal_Winter 2025,” and email proposal to olicylab@ejb.rutgers.edu by Thursday, January 9, 2025.
International Conference on Energy & Meteorology (ICEM 2025), call for Abstracts: Share Your Insights on Energy & Meteorology. Applications due by January 10, 2025.
EGU2025, call for Abstracts for Monsoon Systems in the Past and Present and Under Future Climate Change. Applications due January 15, 2025.
EGU 2025, seeking abstracts relating to Mid-latitude Cyclones and Storms: Diagnostics of Observed and Future Trends, and related Impacts. Abstracts due January 15, 2025.
EGU 2025, seeking abstracts relating to The Southern Ocean in a changing climate: physical, biogeochemical, and ecosystem processes. Abstracts due January 15, 2025.
EGU 2025, seeking abstracts relating to The Southern Ocean’s connection to sea ice and ice shelves. Abstracts due January 15, 2025.
EGU 2025, seeking abstracts relating to Understanding and predicting the impact of climate variability on hydrological variability and extremes. Abstracts due January 15, 2025.
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, seeks proposals for Energy Social Science Research Projects. PON 5857: Energy Social Science Research Projects will fund research in five targeted research areas, with a sixth area for proposers to scope new research questions.This solicitation is open to social researchers working for academic or research institutions located anywhere, but empirical research must be conducted in New York State. Applications due February 19, 2025.
NOAA, Hydrographic Services Review Panel (NOAA). Nominations due February 21, 2025.
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Call for Nomination of Fellows for the IPBES Spatial Planning Assessment. Nominations of fellows due by January 24, 2025. Nominees must complete application by January 10, 2025.
NOAA, NOAA Coastal Resilience Fellowship Program. This fellowship provides a unique, two-year opportunity for early-career professionals to gain hands-on experience. Successful applicants will support Climate Resilience Regional Challenge grant recipients as they implement projects that build climate resilience within coastal communities. Applications are due February 28, 2025 with reviews by the Tridec/NOAA team beginning in early March. Later, from late March to April, the fellowship hosts/mentors will review and interview applicants. Offers will be extended in late May with the fellowship beginning in June 2025 and ending June 2027.
- One of the fellowships, Education and Engagement Fellow, will be with mentor Lisa Auermuller to ensure that multiple education, engagement, and training activities are planned and implemented in conjunction with the other core activities of the Ready NJ project.
No PhD opportunities posted.
No post-doctoral opportunities posted.
Wildlife Conservation Society, REDD+ and Government Liaison Advisor, Madagascar. Applications due December 31, 2024.
Rutgers University, Assistant Professor- Sustainability Governance. Applications due December 31, 2024.
Rutgers University, Class 8 -Teaching Non Credit - New Jersey Climate Change Corps (2024-2025). Applications due March 1, 2025.
Environmental Resources Management, Managing Consultant, Climate Change (Senior Level). [Posted November 12, 2024].
Environmental Resources Management, Consulting Associate, Climate Change (Entry Level). [Posted November 12, 2024].
Mississippi State University, Assistant Professor in Meteorology. [Posted November 12, 2024].
Western Kentucky University (WKU), 9-month tenure-track Assistant Professor of Disaster Science. [Posted November 5, 2024].
Tara Climate Foundation, Senior strategist clean energy. [Posted October 29, 2024].
Clean Air Task Force, Consultant – germany affairs. [Posted October 29, 2024].
Leaders for Climate Action, Corporate Sustainability Educator. [Posted October 22, 2024].
DAI, Senior Principal Specialist – Climate, Land & Natural Resources Practice. [Posted October 22, 2024].
Riverkeeper, Director of Habitat Restoration. [Posted October 15, 2024].
Tufts University, Associate Professor of Climate and Energy Policy. [Posted October 1, 2024]
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Researcher – Effects of Changes in Natural Aerosols on Climate, Ocean Biogeochemistry, Air Quality and Health (r3) – Ai4s. [Posted September 24, 2024].
Enterprise Community Partners, Director, Climate Policy. [Posted September 24, 2024].
Winrock International, Program Officer, Clean Energy and Circular Economy. [Posted September 24, 2024].
Climate XChange, Policy & Research Director. [Posted September 24, 2024].
For more information about the Rutgers policies and procedures for limited submissions, please see Rutgers Office for Research website.
Columbia Bank Foundation, Columbia Bank Foundation Grants. Funds innovative programs that provide a measurable impact in communities in the areas of affordable housing, economic development, financial literacy, health and human services, food insecurity, environmental sustainability, and the arts. [Posted October 1, 2024].
NSF, Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships. The Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships program supports exceptionally innovative, complex research and education projects that require large-scale, long-term awards. STCs focus on creating new scientific paradigms, establishing entirely new scientific disciplines, and developing transformative technologies which have the potential for broad scientific or societal impact. RU-NB, RU-N, RU-C, RBHS: check with your LSO coordinator for an internal application due date. [Posted October 1, 2024].
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Sawyer Seminars. The purpose of the Sawyer Seminar is to provide support for comparative research on historical and contemporary topics of major scholarly significance. The seminars provide an opportunity for intensive study mainly—but not exclusively—in the arts, humanities, etc. [Posted October 1, 2024].
NSF, Regional Resilience Innovation Incubator Program; to address regional climate challenges. Letters of intent due December 16, 2024. Full proposals due January 16, 2025.
NSF Design for Environmental Sustainability in Computing (DESC). Proposals due December 31, 2024 for Type III Workshop Projects.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), release REsearch in FLoquet Engineered QuanTum Systems (REFLEQTS) Solicitation. Aims to fund groundbreaking research in Floquet Engineered Quantum Systems with a specific focus on “engineering novel states of matter with enhanced functionalities in quantum systems.” Expressions of Interest (EOI) due January 24, 2025 to nsf-afrl-feqs@nsf.gov. Full proposals are due March 14, 2025.
National Science Foundation (NSF), releases New DRK-12 Resource Center on Transformative Education Research and Translation Solicitation. Full proposals due February 28, 2025.
NSF, releases Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure-1 Solicitation. Full proposals due March 19, 2025.
The National Science Foundation (NSF), released the updated Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (SaTC 2.0) solicitation. Aims to increase trust in global cyber ecosystems and includes the security, privacy, and resilience of cyberspace. Full proposals due September 29, 2025, and January 26, 2026, and annually thereafter.
NSF, National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program. [Posted September 17, 2024]. For more information about the Rutgers policies and procedures for limited submissions, please see Rutgers Office for Research website.
Department of Homeland Security, FY 2024 Long Range Broad Agency Announcement; basic and applied research on risk reduction of environmental hazards to infrastructure & improved disaster mitigation strategies. Call remains open until May 31, 2029. White papers & full proposals accepted on a rolling basis.
NOAA, Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) Program:
- NOAA, MAPP: Climate Change Projections to 2050. Letters of intent due October 18, 2024. Full proposals due January 10, 2025.
- NOAA, MAPP: Climate Variability and Predictability Implementation of the Tropical Pacific Observing System (TPOS) Equatorial Pacific Experiment East and Central. Full proposals due January 17, 2025.
The Department of Navy, seeking proposals for Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) mission. Proposals due June 20, 2025. Additional snapshot information.
U.S. Army Futures Command’s (AFC) Army Applications Laboratory (AAL), releases a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Disruptive Applications. Applications due April 4, 2029.
Department of Energy (DOE), releases $500 Million Open Call to Seed Investments in Fundamental Research in the Physical Sciences. Pre-applications due January 7, 2025 and full applications due February 27, 2025.
Department of Defense (DOD), releases FY 2025 Minerva Research Initiative FOA. Researchers strongly encouraged to submit white papers to osd.minerva@mail.mil by November 29, 2024. Full proposals due February 28, 2025.
USDA, Smith-Lever Special Needs Competitive Grant Program. Applications due February 13, 2025. Q&A webinar on December 16, 2024. Register here.
Fulbright, Fulbright Specialist Program (FSP). A fully-funded, short-term opportunity to travel to Ecuador. Open Project Announcement. Interested applicants should submit a Resume/CV and a completed Submission of Interest Form form to fulbrightspecialist@worldlearning.org by Monday, January 13, 2025.
National Integrated Heat and Health Information System (NIHHIS), The Center for Collaborative Heat Monitoring. Applications due January 17, 2025. Fill out the Expression of Interest here.
Rutgers Global, Rutgers Global Grants. Seed grant applications due December 6, 2024. Travel grant applications accepted between October 9, 2024 - January 31, 2025 and February 1, 2025 - May 31, 2025.
Belmont Forum, funding calls for Africa Environmental Research. Proposals due December 31, 2024.
Belmont Forum, funding calls for Tropical Forest Research. Proposals due May 30, 2025.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), solicitation period for new Hydrographic Services Review Panel members. Applications due February 21, 2025.
Study Abroad/NB Course: Industrial Landscapes: heritage of innovation, infrastructure, and extraction. A Spring-Embedded opportunity that causes minor or no impact on the students' schedules, and follows the format 2+1: a 2-credit class in New Brunswick + a 1 credit 'class' in Chile. Undergraduate and Graduate students welcome to join one (01:082:409) or both portions of the course.
Spring 2025 Courses in Communicating Climate Change.
- Graduate Course: Communicating Science with Decision-makers. This course will help you develop skills in communicating science and technical subjects, focused on communicating in the context of “decision-making”.
- Undergraduate & Graduate Course: Communicating Climate Change. Expand your understanding of climate science and climate change, while developing science communication skills to advance the public’s climate literacy.
NIH Grant Writing Mini-Course. This mini-course is intended for senior postdocs and faculty researchers who are novice to writing NIH K and R grant applications. Enrollment closes January 12, 2025.
Sustainability Minor for Rutgers Undergraduates. Open to students in any curriculum. Flyer here.
Rutgers SEBS is now offering a sustainability minor. The minor is open to students in any curriculum. The list of course requirements (21 credits) can be found here: http://humeco.rutgers.edu/sustainability-minor.html.
National Academies, Call for Experts: Status of Insects in North America. Soliciting individuals to participate in the consensus study on the status of insects in North America. Nominations due December 31, 2024.
NOAA and the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS), Applications Now Open Nationwide for Community-Led Heat-Monitoring Campaigns. Applicants due January 17, 2025.
The Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation and U.S Department of Energy, Research Internship in Sustainable Bioenergy (RISE). This internship program provides bioenergy research opportunities and is geared toward students from groups underrepresented in STEM. Applications due February 20, 2024.
New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Winter, Spring 2025 Communications & Digital Intern. [Posted October 1, 2024]
New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Winter, Spring 2025 Events & HR Operational Support Intern. [Posted October 1, 2024]
New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Winter, Spring 2025 Policy & Organizing Intern. [Posted October 1, 2024]
NJ Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability, 2025 Green Jobs Fair. Takes place March 4, 2025 at the College Avenue Student Center, New Brunswick. Open to all students and recent graduates.
Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Cooperative Extension, registration for the Rutgers Environmental Steward 2025 is now open. Register by December 31, 2024 to save $25.
Free student membership in NJ Association for Floodplain Management for students enrolled in post-secondary learning in a NJ institution, NJ residents attending institutions out of state, and recent graduates transitioning to professional careers up to their first year after graduation. [Posted August 26, 2024]