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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, 2023.
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, 2023.
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, 2024.
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, 2023.
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, 2024.
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, 2024.
Virtual Reality and Climate Change Communication Rutgers Research: Undergraduate Student Study Subjects Wanted. Research at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University seeks individuals to participate in a VR experience study to help understand the role of Virtual Reality in Climate Change Communication. The study will take place at the School of Communication and Information. More information here.
AGU 2024, Call for Papers: El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pantropical Climate Interactions: Mechanisms, Predictability, Impacts, and Projections. Abstracts due July 31, 2024.
AGU 2024, Call for Papers: Showcasing your Earth Data Products, Tools, and Services. Abstracts due July 31, 2024.
AGU 2024, Call for Papers: Lakes and Inland Water Bodies. Abstracts due July 31, 2024.
AGU 2024, Call for Papers: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth Observation Data and Visualization Services. Abstracts due July 31, 2024.
AGU 2024, Call for Papers: Pacific Atmospheric Teleconnections: Dynamics, Impacts, and Future Projections. Abstracts due July 31, 2024.
AGU 2024, Call for Papers: Cyclones of Tropical Origin: their changing Nature and Risks. Abstracts due July 31, 2024.
Office of the Chancellor, proposals for Chancellor Challenge: Focus on Student Success. Proposals due October 11, 2024.
EPA, Great Lakes Advisory Board (EPA). Nominations due July 30, 2024.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), nominations for the Mobile Sources Technical Review Subcommittee (MSTRS). Nominations due July 31, 2024.
CDC, Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (CDC). Nominations due August 1, 2024.
USGS, Advisory Committee on Landslides (USGS). Nominations due August 5, 2024.
NOAA, Hydrographic Services Review Panel (NOAA). Nominations due February 21, 2025.
University of British Columbia, PhD graduate student position in a Canadian N2O flux network study. [Posted July 15, 2024]
New York University, PhD Program in Environmental Studies. [Posted June 17, 2024]
The Inter-American Foundation Research Fellowship Program, Applications due December 3, 2024.
Advanced Manufacturing and Manufacturing Technologies Office Education and Workforce Development: Social Science Fellow [Posted June 17, 2024]
Advanced Manufacturing and Manufacturing Technologies Office DEIA and Sustainable Development Fellow [Posted June 17, 2024]
The Building Technologies Office (BTO), Commercial Buildings and Building Energy Code Fellow [Posted June 17, 2024]
School of GeoSciences University of Edinburgh, Patience Cowie Early Career Researcher Fellowships. [Posted April 29, 2024]
IBS Center for Climate Physics, Postdoctoral Fellow Position- Climate, Health and Tick-Borne Disease Modeling. Submit (all combined in one pdf) cover letter, statement of research interests, CV, 2 references, and up to 3 publications to Ms. Jenny Choi (hahadaye@pusan.ac.kr) [Posted July 15, 2024]
Cornell University, Postdoctoral Associate (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences). Applications due August 15, 2024. Environment and Climate Change Canada, Postdoctoral Research Program. [Posted July 15, 2024]
Princeton University, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Oceanography. [Posted June 17, 2024]
Rutgers Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Postdoctoral Fellow. [Posted May 20, 2024]
Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships.
E Co, Senior consultant | climate change – forestry and land use, green economy projects. Applications due July 25, 2024.
E Co, Senior analyst | climate change – french-speaking. Applications due July 25, 2024.
Climate Central, VP for Science. Applications due July 26, 2024.
Ministry of Water and Environment, Government of Uganda, Chief technical advisor. Applications due July 26, 2024.
Environmental Defence Canada, Project manager/lead, transition task force. Applications due July 26, 2024.
Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change CMCC, Technologies for climate transition division director. Applications due July 31, 2024.
Conservation International, African pastoralism technical specialist. Applications due July 30, 2024.
Conservation International, Africa grasslands and pastoralists senior manager. Applications due July 30, 2024.
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), Technical Specialist. Applications due July 31, 2024.
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), Technical Advisor. Applications due July 31, 2024.
Forest Stewardship Council, Case Management Officer (m-f-d). Applications due August 4, 2024.
SEBS - Human Ecology, Lecturer- Energy and Society. Applications due August 5, 2024.
SteelWatch, Executive assistant. Applications due August 5, 2024.
Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change CMCC, Advanced scientific computing division director. Applications due August 5, 2024.
Environmental Protection Agency, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Management. Applications due August 7, 2024.
Degrees Initiative, Communications manager. Applications due August 10, 2024.
IDDRI - Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, Senior policy analyst and diplomatic strategist for climate action and justice. Applications due August 16, 2024.
Southeast Conservation Corps, Fall Conservation Crew Member. Applications due December 8, 2024.
Wildlife Conservation Society, REDD+ and Government Liaison Advisor, Madagascar. Applications due December 31, 2024.
ODI, Senior research fellow or research fellow – climate and sustainability programme. [Posted July 13, 2024].
Microsol Perú SAC, Coordinator of technical project development. [Posted July 16, 2024].
Microsol Perú SAC, Specialist in technical business development. [Posted July 16, 2024].
Revalue Nature, Senior data platform engineer. [Posted July 5, 2024].
Revalue Nature, Geospatial and data visualisation software developer. [Posted July 5, 2024].
Revalue Nature, Senior transformation associate. [Posted July 5, 2024].
Winrock International, Technical Advisor, ECO- Forests and GHG Accounting. [Posted June 28, 2024].
ERS - Ecosystem Restoration Standard, Certification Agent – Remote only. [Posted June 28, 2024].
AltGen, PROCUREMENT COORDINATOR (ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION) – LONDON. [Posted June 28, 2024].
AltGen, Green Hydrogen POWER SYSTEMS GRID ENGINEER – LONDON. [Posted June 28, 2024].
AltGen, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER – GREEN HYDROGEN – LONDON. [Posted June 28, 2024].
AltGen, SENIOR PROCESS ENGINEER – GREEN HYDROGEN – LONDON. [Posted June 28, 2024].
AltGen, SALES DEVELOPMENT LEAD – FLEXIBLE ENERGY (DSO) – UK AND EUROPE. [Posted June 28, 2024].
AltGen, (FLEXIBILITY MARKET) HEAD OF SALES EU – NETHERLANDS. [Posted June 28, 2024].
Rutgers University, Department of Civil and Environmental Internship, Master's and Ph.D. assistantships and paid research internships are immediately available. Projects related to Tidal and Wave Energy Resources, Water Quality and Multiphase Flow Modeling to support Advanced Sensor Development and understanding Ice Melting. Contact Prof. Roger Wang (rq.wang@rutgers.edu) with your resume.
The School of Business at Rutgers University-Camden is hiring an Open-Rank Faculty position in Management with a focus on Sustainability - Tenure Track.
New Jersey Offshore Wind Research & Monitoring Initiative for Environment, Wildlife, and Fisheries. Letter of Intent due August 28, 2024. Proposal Due October 9, 2024.
NSF, Dear Colleague Letter: National Discovery Cloud for Climate Opportunities. [Posted January 29, 2024]
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Capacity building to Catalyze Collaborations to Address Climate Change Impacts on Human Health (C2H2) will accept proposals through the following mechanisms:
- Research Coordination Networks (RCNs);
- Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER);
- GOALI Supplemental Funding Requests;
- GeoHealth INTERN;
- Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST);
- Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP);
- Conference Proposals;
- Planning Proposals; and
- Supplemental funding requests to existing GEO or SBE awards.
To submit a proposal under the C2H2, interested applicants must send a brief Concept Outline to geohealth@nsf.gov. Additional information on the submission process can be found in the full DCL.
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Research Experience for Teachers (RET): Funding Opportunity in the Biological Sciences. [Posted September 4, 2023]
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Innovations in Open Science (IOS) Planning Workshops. [Posted August 28, 2023]
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Critical Research on GreenHouse Gas Transport and Fate in the Planetary Boundary Layer and Above (GHG-PBLA). [Posted June 26, 2023]
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Workshops to Identify Educational Requirements of the Future Ocean Technical Workforce. [Posted July 24, 2023]
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: DOE Water Power Technologies Office and NSF Engineering Research Initiation Special Emphasis Areas. [Posted June 19, 2023]
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Stimulating Diversification in Language Science Research (LangDiv). [Posted May 15, 2023]
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Availability of Earth Observation Data for NSF-Funded Researchers. [Posted May 1, 2023]
NSF Design for Environmental Sustainability in Computing (DESC). Proposals due September 13, 2024 for Type I and II projects. Proposals due December 31, 2024 for Type III Workshop Projects.
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Great American Solar Eclipses 2023 and 2024.
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: VITAL Prize Challenge. [Posted January 16, 2023]
NSF Biological Oceanography grant. [Posted January 9, 2023]
NSF Design for Environmental Sustainability in Computing. Proposals accepted anytime for type III projects.
The NSF is awarding funding for Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis, which is targeted to individuals, typically at later-career stages, who have contributed significant insights to a field or body of research over time. The program provides an opportunity to revisit and synthesize that prior research into a unique, integrated product(s) useful to the scientific community, now and in the future. All four clusters within the Division of Environmental Biology (Ecosystem Science, Evolutionary Processes, Population and Community Ecology, and Systematics and Biodiversity Science) encourage the submission of OPUS proposals. Proposals accepted anytime. [Posted May 9, 2022]
NSF Division of Environmental Biology. [Posted April 24, 2023]
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Interdisciplinary REU Sites at the Intersection of Computing and Communication Foundations and Mathematics and Statistics. [Posted April 10, 2023]
NSF Plant Genome Research Program. [Posted April 10, 2023]
NSF Accelerating Research Translation (ART) program. [Posted February 13, 2023]
EPA Inflation Reduction Act Community Change Grants Program. Applications due November 21, 2024.
EPA Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program. [Posted September 11, 2023]
U.S. EPA and U.S. DOE, Inflation Reduction Act Funding for Advanced Biofuels. [Posted February 26, 2024]
U.S. DOE and U.S. EPA Joint Funding Solicitation for Methane Emissions Monitoring and Reduction Program. Proposals due August 26, 2024. Additional snapshot information.
Notice of Intent - DOE Industrial Decarbonization and Emissions Reduction Demonstration-to- Deployment. [Posted January 30, 2023]
DOE Direct Air Capture Commercial and Pre-Commercial Prize. [Posted February 13, 2023]
Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Storage Research and Development Priorities and Funding Opportunities. [Posted June 24, 2024].
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) is looking for a diverse pool of individuals to review the equity, justice, jobs, and community engagement sections of funding opportunity applications. Compensation is available. To apply to review, send your resume to SCI_FECM@NETL.DOE.GOV.
U.S. Forest Service, Tribal access to emerging private markets for forest resilience or climate mitigation. Eligible applicants are federally recognized Tribes, Alaska Native Corporations/Villages, and Tribal Organizations. Applications due August 21.
U.S. Forest Service, Supporting Underserved and Small-Acreage Landowner Participation in Emerging Private Markets. Applications due August 21, 2024.
US Department of Agriculture Strategic Economic and Community Development Program for Fiscal Year 23. [Posted January 30, 2023]
Rutgers, Innovation Ventures TechAdvance (Early-Stage Technology Fund); TechXpress (Fast- Track Program). [Posted March 20, 2023]
The Mid-Atlantic States Section of the Air and Waste Management Association (MASS-A&WMA), The Air Pollution Educational and Research Grant Program (APERG). Applications due June 30, 2024.
National Institute of Food and Agriculture, applications for Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship Grants Program. Applications due August 13, 2024.
DARPA - Information Innovation Office, Artificial Intelligence Quantified (AIQ). Proposals due August 13, 2024.
National Endowment for Humanities program, funding opportunity for The Humanities Connections program. Proposals due September 5, 2024.
National Endowment for the Humanities program, funding opportunity for Climate Smart Humanities Organizations program. Proposals due September 18, 2024.
National Endowment for Humanities program, funding opportunity for the Cultural and Community Resilience program. Proposals due February 20, 2025.
NOAA & Department of Commerce, FY26 Brennan Matching Fund. Matching Fund Opportunity for Ocean and Coastal Mapping and Request for Partnership. Informational Webinar August 1, 2024 at 1 p.m. ET. To participate, please register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8298435806847389269. Virtual office hours September 13, 2024, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. by emailing iwgocm.staff@noaa.gov. Applications due October 11, 2024.
Hudson River Foundation, announces Call for Social Science Research Proposals. Full proposals due October 15, 2024.
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.
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.
XPRIZE Carbon Removal and Elon Musk plan to award up to $100 Million for carbon removal solutions. Team registration opens with the announcement of full guidelines on Earth Day April 22, 2021. The competition will last 4 years through Earth Day 2025.
The Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) is awarding prizes based on water-related scientific innovation. Awards of $133,000 or $266,000. (If you need assistance applying, contact foundationrelations@ruf.rutgers.edu)
Second Nature, Building Energy Research Capacity at Under-Resourced Institutions. [Posted August 14, 2023]
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), solicitation period for new Hydrographic Services Review Panel members. Applications due February 21, 2025.
The EPA has opened a public docket to accept pre-proposal input on EPA’s efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from new and existing fossil fuel-fired electric generating units (EGUs). The goal of this non-rulemaking docket is to gather perspectives from a broad group of stakeholders in advance of our proposed rulemakings. More information here.
EPA Request for Information: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (RFI GHGRF).
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.
The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO) on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), seeks input on Digital Twins Research and Development. Responses due July 28, 2024.
NJ Department of Environmental Protection and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, RFI to Identify Site Partners for NY/NJ charging and fueling infrastructure application. Responses due August 1, 2024.
The Department of the Treasury, RFI on use of AI in the Financial Sector. Responses due August 12, 2024.
The National Institutes of Health, RFI on Draft Public Access Policy. Comments due August 19, 2024.
LabX, a part of the Creative Engagement team at the National Academy of Sciences, is launching a new social media feature called Scientists at Home. It will feature scientists sharing their most interesting/unique/weird/odd/meaningful object they own. To participate, fill out this form and return a completed release form to kstoever@nas.edu.
Sandbag Climate Campaign, Data analyst intern. [Posted July 4, 2024]
Free student membership to the New Jersey Association for Floodplain Managers. The New Jersey Association for Floodplain Management (NJAFM) has made membership free of charge for those attending a college, university, or trade school in New Jersey (or residents of New Jersey attending school out of state) and providing students with the same benefits as regular membership. Programs designed for student members will include networking events, opportunities to present at annual conferences, and employment opportunities. Register for membership here. The NJAFM is also looking for a student member to participate in monthly board meetings, if interested submit a letter of intent describing the reasons you are interested to director@njafm.org