Scholarships
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Scholarships, Fellowships & Funding
Explore funding opportunities for students and Early Career Researchers to support your coral reef research journey. Opportunites are organised by career stage along with their deadline (where available). If you know of other opportunities, feel free to share them with us to help expand this resource!
Be sure not to miss ICRS’s own Student Grants and Awards, available to applicants worldwide and open to all career stages. Due every year on the 15th of February.
Undergraduate
ICRS Travel Grants - due date announced prior to symposium
Our World Underwater Rolex - Jan 15th, 2025
NOAA Hollings Scholarship - Jan 31st, 2025
Cook Islands Investment Corporation Scholarship - Nov 11th, 2024
NOAA Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship
Graduate
ICRS Travel Grants - due date announced prior to symposium
ICRS Graduate Fellowships - Feb 15th, 2025
ICRS Ruth Gates Fellowship - Feb 15th, 2025
Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences: Zale Parry Scholar (MASTERS ONLY) - Aug 31st, 2025
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program - Oct 11th, 2024
NOAA National Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy
North Pacific Research Board - February
EuroMarine
Lizard Island Doctoral Fellowships - September 27, 2024
Australian Coral Reef Society
Postdoctoral
ICRS Ruth Gates Fellowship - Feb 15th, 2025
ICRS Early-Career Scientist Award - Feb 15th, 2025
Humboldt Research Fellowship - March, July, November (annual)
IMBeR Young Scholar
EuroMarine
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Lizard Island Postdoctoral Fellowships - Oct 18, 2024
All career stages
ICRS Science Communication Fellowship - Feb 15th, 2025
The Women Divers Hall of Fame - Oct 31st, 2024
American Academy of Underwater Sciences
PADI Foundation Grants - Jan 15th, 2025
NOAA Student Opportunities
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean
ASLO SciComm Internship October (annual)
Other opportunities & resources
STEM career development resources
compiled by: Daniel Olivares-Zambrano & ICRS-SECC website team
We want to hear from you!
All opportunities world-wide will be helpful for us to share with the rest of you. From small scholarships to major fellowships in your area. Email us at ICRS.students@gmail.com!
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