Funding

Student funding overview and resources

Adequate funding is an important consideration for graduate school and SAFS students are provided a detailed funding package upon acceptance. Funding packages typically include a combination of grant-funded research assistantships, teaching assistantships, fellowships, and/or external scholarships (see SAFS funding for more). Each student should carefully review their funding letter to make sure they understand the funding sources and to confirm accuracy.

Students are also highly encouraged to apply for additional grants and fellowships. Writing funding proposals helps you refine your research ideas, represents an important professional development opportunity, and being awarded funding is great for a CV.

Potential graduate funding includes:

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - a highly competitive program that funds three years of graduate study in any area of science.
  
• WWF Russell E. Train Fellowships - Conservation-oriented 2-year fellowships. Themes change annually.
  
• NOAA Fellowship - NOAA offers several funding opportunities, including one focused on coastal management and one on coral reef management.

Potential post-graduate and postdoctoral funding includes:

• AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship.
• Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship.
• NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Data management and sharing plan

Proposals often require a data management and sharing plan (DMP or DMSP) outlining the types of data that will be produced, procedures for ensuring proper data handling (particularly for sensitive data), and concrete plans for data distribution and archiving.