The NOAA Office for Coastal Management is accepting applications for the 2025-2027 Coastal Management and Digital Coast Fellowship Program! The deadline to apply is January 24, 2025.

 

Eligibility

  • To apply, applicants must complete a master’s or another advanced degree at an accredited U.S. university between August 1, 2023, and July 31, 2025.
  • Applicants are eligible for any of the projects regardless of where they live or have studied. Fellows will be reimbursed up to $1,000 to move to their fellowship location and up to $1,000 to move at the end of the two-year fellowship. However, application packages must be submitted to a Sea Grant program office in the state where you earned your degree in. 
  • Applicants from states not served by a Sea Grant program office should contact the fellowship coordinator for more information on submitting an application.

 

Application Process

  • Application guidance on how to apply and additional fellowship information can be found on NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management Fellowship website.
  • Apply to USC Sea Grant by emailing all application materials to seagrant@usc.edu. It is highly recommended to provide at least a month’s time to complete the application process.
  • Please contact Charlotte Stevenson (cnsteven@usc.edu) for more information or for questions while applying.
  • The fellowship will begin in August 2025 and end in August 2027.

 

Additional Information

The Coastal Management Fellowship was established in 1996 to provide on-the-job education and training opportunities in coastal resource management and policy for postgraduate students and to provide project assistance to state coastal zone management programs. The program matches postgraduate students with state coastal zone programs to work on projects proposed by the state and selected by the fellowship sponsor, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office for Coastal Management.

The NOAA Digital Coast Fellowship was established in 2012 to provide on-the-job education and training opportunities in coastal resource management and policy for postgraduate students and to provide technical assistance to help advance the goals of the Digital Coast and its partner organizations. Up to three fellows are placed with Digital Coast Partner organizations every other year, in the even years.

Candidates will apply to the Coastal Management and Digital Coast Fellowship program as a whole, and selected candidates will be eligible to interview with both the state coastal programs and the Digital Coast partnership organizations at the fellowship matching workshop.

This two-year opportunity offers a competitive salary, medical benefits, and travel and relocation expense reimbursement.