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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.

European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU 2024), session "Extreme heat: processes, impacts, physiological responses and adaptation." Submissions due January 10, 2024. 

The Restoration Webinar Series seeks abstracts and community views on DEIJ (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice). The RWS showcases restoration best management practices and innovative techniques, and provides an avenue for practitioners to discuss how to address some of the biggest habitat restoration challenges facing North America today. The RWS, now in its 9th year, responds to an expressed need for more knowledge and skills associated with best management practices in restoration. The RWS is hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Restoration Center and Office For Coastal Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Conservation Training Center (NCTC). The RWS covers a broad spectrum of topics including: planning, permitting, and implementing restoration projects; project monitoring and evaluation at different time scales; and restoration in a changing climate.

National Offshore Wind Research & Development Consortium, Innovations in Offshore Wind – Solicitation 3.0. Proposals due January 10, 2024.

The University of Queensland is seeking two PhD candidates to study at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) and the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (SEES) at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

The Department of Geography at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, PhD position in modeling convective plumes in the Southern Ocean. Applications due December 1, 2023. 

University of Sheffield, PhD - Improving detection and prediction of extreme climatic events in Arctic ecosystems. Applications due January 8, 2024.

British Antarctic Survey, PhD - Future Changes to Rainfall Over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Applications January 9, 2024.

The University of Birmingham, PhD Opportunities in Weather and Climate. Applications due January 10, 2024. 

 Tribal Climate Equity Fellowship thru the USDA Northeast Climate Hub and US Forest Service Northern Research Station to engage in research and collaboration on climate equity specifically for Tribes and Tribal communities in our region.  Applicants must be post-Masters or post-PhD. Deadline: 1/5/24 3:00 PM. 

The NYU Department of Environmental Studies, Postdoctoral Associate for land management in climate mitigation and adaptation. Applications due November 30, 2023. 

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, President's Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Science Department of Geography, Environment and Society. Applications due November 30, 2023.

The University of Innsbruck, Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN), PostDoc - Research Associate. Applications due December 6, 2023.

Alfred Wegener Institute (Germany), PostDoc position "Response of the Southern Ocean biological carbon pump to climate-related changes in iron supply.” Applications due December 7, 2023.

Harvard University, Reginald A. Daly Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Applications due December 21, 2023.

Climate Forest Indicators post-doctoral fellowship with the USDA Northeast and Midwest Climate Hubs and Cornell University’s Northeast Region Climate Center to engage in research, collaboration, and outreach on a project which aims to align climate change indicators with the needs of forestry stakeholders. Deadline: 1/5/2024 11:00 PM. 

University of South Carolina, Postdoctoral Scholar in Climate and Hazards. [Posted November 20, 2023]

Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Postdoctoral researcher – climate-sensitive infectious disease modelling (R2). [Posted November 6, 2023]

Postdoctoral Research Position to work on the intersection of urban green infrastructure with wildlife conservation and natural resource management in the Midwest.  Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute.  Potential start date: January 2024 [Posted October 11, 2023] 

Washington State University, Postdoctoral position in spatial variability in micrometeorological processes above and within heterogeneous forest canopy. [Posted August 28, 2023]

UCLouvain, Belgium, post doc researcher: influence of ocean mesoscale eddies in polar regions on atmospheric dynamics. [Posted July 3, 2023]

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Epidemiology and Climate and Health. [Posted May 29, 2023]

Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships.

NOAA, 2023 Inflation Reduction Act Climate-Ready Workforce for Coastal States and Territories Competition. Letters of intent due November 30, 2023.

NOAA Coastal Habitat Restoration and Resilience Grants for Tribes and Underserved Communities, Under the BIL and IRA. Due December 19, 2023. 

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: Future Proofing Plants to a Changing Climate. [Posted November 6, 2023]

NSF Organismal Response to Climate Change (ORCC) Expanding Understanding and Improving Predictions of Life on a Warming Planet. Proposals due December 13, 2023.

NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Research Experience for Teachers (RET): Funding Opportunity in the Biological Sciences. [Posted September 4, 2023]

NSF Decision, Risk and Management Sciences - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DRMS-DDRIG). Proposals due January 18, 2024.

NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Innovations in Open Science (IOS) Planning Workshops. [Posted August 28, 2023]

NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST Centers) Interest in Engineering Research. Preliminary proposals due December 1, 2023. Full proposals due December 6, 2024.

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 March 17, 2023 for Type I and II projects. Proposals due December 29, 2023 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 due March 17, 2023 for type I and type II projects. Proposals accepted anytime for type III projects.

NSF Paleoclimate Research Grant. [Posted December 3, 2022]

NSF Atmospheric Chemistry Program. [Posted November 7, 2022]

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]

The NSF is awarding funding for its Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics (DCSD) program, which promotes the fundamental science and engineering of dynamic systems to advance solutions to urgent societal problems. Such problems include mitigating the impacts of climate change; responding to epidemics, cyber-attacks, extreme weather, and other natural and man-made events; promoting efficient and equitable production and distribution of resources; developing resilient infrastructure; improving the experience of work and learning; and meeting the challenges of aging and illness. [Posted April 11, 2022]

The NSF is awarding funding for facilities supporting Atmospheric Research and Education. [Posted March 28, 2022]

The NSF is awarding funding for Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry research. The Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry Program supports research on geochemical processes in terrestrial Earth’s surface systems, as well as the interaction of geochemical and biological processes. [Posted March 28, 2022]

The NSF is accepting proposals for its Pathways into the Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences (GEOPAths) program, which aims to address the current needs and opportunities related to education, learning, training and professional development within the geosciences community through the formation of STEM Learning Ecosystems that engage students in the study of the Earth, its oceans, polar regions and atmosphere. Proposals accepted anytime.

NSF funding through the Division of Environmental Biology Core program, supports research and training on evolutionary and ecological processes acting at the level of populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. [Posted January 10, 2022]

NSF funding through its Hydrological Sciences Program to support fundamental research about water on and beneath the Earth's surface, as well as relationships of water with material and living components of the environment. [Posted January 10, 2022]

NSF Accelerating Research Translation (ART) program. [Posted February 13, 2023]

The NSF is accepting applications for its Smart and Connected Communities Program, which supports integrative research that addresses fundamental technological and social science dimensions of smart and connected communities and pilots solutions together with communities. Proposals accepted until April 1, 2024.

The NSF has published a dear colleague letter imploring applications to the Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS): Innovative Solutions to Climate Change program, which contains the subtopics: “Reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions and Energy Use”, “Energy Innovations Relevant to Climate Change Mitigation”, “Enhance GHG Sequestration”, “Accelerating Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation”, and “Research Addressing Synergistic Topics”. [Posted October 4, 2021]

The NSF is welcoming applications for Dissertation Research Improvement Awards through its Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS-DDRI). Only Institutes of Higher Education need apply. Awards of $250,000-375,000. [Posted September 20, 2021]

USDA-NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Competitive Grants Program- Foundational and Applied Science Program: Social Implications of Food and Agricultural Technologies. Application due December 29, 2023.

The USDA is awarding funding for the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, which supports grants in six AFRI priority areas to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture. The six priority areas are: Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health and Production and Animal Products; Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health; Bioenergy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities. Applications deadlines vary. 

Notice of Intent - DOE Industrial Decarbonization and Emissions Reduction Demonstration-to- Deployment. [Posted January 30, 2023]

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]

EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG). Applications due March 1, 2024.

EPA Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program. [Posted September 11, 2023]

NJDEP Stormwater Assistance Grant. Applications due December 31, 2023.

DOE Direct Air Capture Commercial and Pre-Commercial Prize. [Posted February 13, 2023]

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.

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]

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.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA/FAS), International Agricultural Internship Program. Applications due December 1, 2023. 

NJDEP, Environmental Services Intern – WRM-2024-1i. Interested applicants must submit a resume, NJDEP Internship Application, and NJDEP Internship Information Form to DEPinternships@dep.nj.gov. Applications due December 11, 2023. 

NJDEP, Environmental Justice Policy Intern – COM-2024-1i. Interested applicants must submit a resume, NJDEP Internship Application, and NJDEP Internship Information Form to DEPinternships@dep.nj.gov. Applications due January 2, 2024. 

NJDEP, Environmental Justice Design Intern – COM-2024-2i. Interested applicants must submit a resume, NJDEP Internship Application, and NJDEP Internship Information Form to DEPinternships@dep.nj.gov. Applications due January 2, 2024. 

NJDEP, Web Design Assistant Intern – WRM-2024-2i. Interested applicants must submit a resume, NJDEP Internship Application, and NJDEP Internship Information Form to DEPinternships@dep.nj.gov. Applications due January 2, 2024. 

NJDEP, Project Assistant Intern – WRM-2024-3i. Interested applicants must submit a resume, NJDEP Internship Application, and NJDEP Internship Information Form to DEPinternships@dep.nj.gov. Applications due January 2, 2024. 

NJDEP, Project Assistant Intern – WRM-2024-4i. Interested applicants must submit a resume, NJDEP Internship Application, and NJDEP Internship Information Form to DEPinternships@dep.nj.gov. Applications due January 2, 2024. 

NJDEP, Climate Resilience Outreach Intern – OCR-2024-2i. Interested applicants must submit a resume, NJDEP Internship Application, and NJDEP Internship Information Form to DEPinternships@dep.nj.gov. Applications due January 2, 2024. 

NJDEP, Environmental Action Plan Guidance Intern – OCR-2024-1i. Interested applicants must submit a resume, NJDEP Internship Application, and NJDEP Internship Information Form to DEPinternships@dep.nj.gov. Applications due January 2, 2024. 

NJDEP Office of Climate Resilience, Climate Resilience Outreach Intern. Applications due January 2, 2024. 

NJDEP  Office of Climate Resilience, Environmental Justice Action Plan Intern. Applications due January 2, 2024. 

NASA STEM Gateway, Improving Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Data Understanding and Use. [Posted November 6, 2023]

TRC, Advanced Energy Intern. [Posted November 6, 2023]

Colliers Engineering and Design, Commissioning & Energy Intern. [Posted November 6, 2023]

CCL Industries, Inc., Sustainability Team Intern. Interested applicants send a resume and cover letter to csr.cclindustries@gmail.com. [Posted September 25, 2023]

2024 Undergraduate and Graduate Student Corporate Engagement Challenge: Inequity & the Climate Crisis
Sponsored by Intentional Endowments Network  Sign up to participate by December 2023.

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