Fellowships and Student Opportunities
Future members of North Carolina’s workforce will be faced with increasingly complex coastal issues. North Carolina Sea Grant helps to develop a cadre of educated, innovative and technologically advanced professionals through a variety of fellowships for talented graduate students.
We strongly encourage proposals from graduate students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions and/or from traditionally underserved and underrepresented communities, as well as from graduate students who can demonstrate how their work and related outreach will benefit underserved and underrepresented communities.
The opportunities below include fellowships in management, policy, and scientific research that affect the state’s and the nation’s ecosystems and communities.
Open Opportunities
Currently closed
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Coastal Resilience Team Competition
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![landscape image of a ghost forrest on the NC coast.](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/inundated-scaled.jpg)
NC Sea Grant / NC Space Grant Ghost Forest Research Funding for Graduate Students
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NC Sea Grant / Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership Fellowship
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![Marsh at sunset. Sky appears in bands of pink, blue, and purple. Green marsh grass in the middle, and blue water at the bottom, with reflections of marsh grass.](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Untitled-design-2.jpg)
Mountains to Sea Graduate Research Fellowship
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![A large school of vermillion snapper swim over a reef](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/vermillion-snapper_noaa-scaled.jpg)
National Marine Fisheries / National Sea Grant Fellowship
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![A picture of an estuary taken overhead, at either dusk or dawn](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Nature-43-scaled.jpg)
NOAA Coastal Management / Digital Coast Fellowship
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![The dome of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, DC.](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ian-hutchinson-capitol-dome-unsplash-scaled.jpg)
John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
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![North Carolina State Legislature Building](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/North_Carolina_State_Legislature_Building-scaled.jpg)
NC STEM Policy Post-Graduate Fellowship
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NC Sea Grant / NC Coastal Reserve’s Coastal Research Fellowship
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![a graysby grouper about to be released with the aid of a descending device.](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Graysby_SAFMC-scaled-e1703097183906.jpg)
South Atlantic Reef Fish Extension Communication Fellowship
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NC Sea Grant / NC Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship
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![an Atlantic white marlin in the water](https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/White-Marlin-Atlantic-scaled.jpg)
The Hook, Line & Science Communication Fellowship
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