Federal Funding Opportunity Number: NOAA-OAR-SG-2025-29114
Florida Sea Grant is now accepting applications for the 2025 NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowship Program from Florida Ph.D. students interested in population and ecosystem dynamics or marine resource and environmental economics. Complete applications are due to Florida Sea Grant by 5:00PM EST, on Jan. 23, 2025.
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship Program in Population and Ecosystem Dynamics and Marine Resource Economics places Ph.D. students in research-based fellowships that provide support for up to three years.
This joint fellowship program offers two specialized areas:
Population and Ecosystem Dynamics: This fellowship focuses on the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing marine ecosystems, for assessing the status of fish, invertebrate, and other targeted species stocks and for assessing the status of marine mammals, seabirds, and other protected species.
Marine Resource Economics: This fellowship focuses on the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing the economics of the conservation and management of living marine resources.
During their fellowship, fellows are guided by at least two mentors: a faculty mentor from the fellow’s university and a mentor from NOAA Fisheries. Fellows are also required to participate in a yearly research symposium.
Florida applicants are encouraged to contact Florida Sea Grant or browse Southeast Fisheries Science Center’s staff and publications to identify and connect with a potential NOAA Fisheries faculty mentor whose research aligns with their own.
Since the program began in 1999, 11 graduate students from Florida have been placed in NMFS-Sea Grant fellowships. Most recently, this fellowship has been awarded to population and ecosystem dynamics fellows in 2020, 2022, and 2024.
Alumni of the NMFS-Sea Grant fellowship typically hold future positions in NOAA Fisheries, other agencies, academics, and fishery management councils.
