Fellowships
- US Federal Government (usually restricted to US citizens and permanent residents)
- Two searchable sites that list federal grants and can send customized e mail alerts:
National Center for Environmental Research
Grants.gov - Dept. of Education, Jacob Javits Fellowship
Social sciences, applicants and first year only - National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowships (no 2008-2009 competition)
- NOAA Coastal Management Fellowship
- NOAA Fisheries-Sea Grant Fellowship Program
- Population Dynamics and Marine Resource Economics Graduate Fellowship
- National Network for Environmental Management Studies (NNEMS) Fellowship
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships
- Dept. of Energy Graduate Research Environmental Fellowships
- Two searchable sites that list federal grants and can send customized e mail alerts:
- NSF Dissertation Improvement grants (usually for advanced students, primarily to cover research costs)
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Developing Global Scientists and Engineers - Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Projects
For research abroad, open to students from developing countries as well as US citizens - Directorate for Biological Sciences
Division of Environmental Biology
Science & Society Program - Division of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Cultural Anthropology
Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences
Economics
Political Science
Sociology
Science & Society Program
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Developing Global Scientists and Engineers - Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Projects
- Private Foundations, Professional Societies, and other Organizations (usually open to non-US citizens)
- International Dissertation Research Fellowship - Social Science Research Council
For research abroad - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies
Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Humanities and social sciences - Link Foundation Energy Program
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Fellowships
- Compton Foundation/Population Reference Bureau International Fellows
Open to students from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America - Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation
- Theresa Heinz Foundation
- Resources for the Future
- Environmental Research and Education Foundation Fellowships in Waste Management
- Ford Foundation Diversity Predoctoral Fellowships
Must be US citizen - Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships
Must be US citizen - Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
Focus on applied physical sciences - The Land Institute
- Morris K. Udall Foundation, Environmental Public Policy and Conflict Resolution
Dissertation Fellowships - Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship -- Social Science Research Council
- Organization of American States (OAS) Academic Scholarships
- International Dissertation Research Fellowship - Social Science Research Council
- Stanford Opportunities
- Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF)
- DARE Doctoral Fellowship
- Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society Graduate Fellowships
- Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Various opportunities and deadlines - FSI Center for International Security and Cooperation
- Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN)
- Undergraduate Research Programs
Undergraduate Academic Life (lists some graduate fellowships)
Undergraduate Research Programs
To apply for grants to engage undergrads in your research;
- Fellowships in Washington or other off-campus sites
- NSF East Asia Summer Institutes
- The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
- The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship
- AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships
Must have completed PhD requirements - USAID Fellows
- John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships
- Other Governments and Multinational Organizations - International Students
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council-Canada
Open to Canadian citizens studying at universities outside Canada - Social Science and Humanities Research Council-Canada
Open to Canadian citizens studying at universities outside Canada - Vietnam Education Foundation
For students from Vietnam
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council-Canada
- Postdoctoral Opportunities and Other Professional Development
- David H. Smith Conservation Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program, Society for
Conservation Biology - Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Fellowship, World Wildlife Fund
- S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowships in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy, U.C. Berkeley
- NOAA Climate and Global Change Postoctoral Fellowship Program
- NSF Science & Society
- NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research fellowships and Supporting Activities
- Resources for the Future
- Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships For Excellence in Teaching
- Earth Institute Fellows Program, Columbia University
- Harvard University Center for the Environment
- Public Policy Institute of California Fellows
- California Sea Grant, CALFED Science Fellows
- National Academies Research Associateship Program
- David H. Smith Conservation Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program, Society for
- Interdisciplinary and Environmental Research Grant Programs (for IPER students and their advisors )
- Woods Institute for the Environment, Environmental Venture Projects
Stanford only, submitted by faculty teams - NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems
- NSF Environmental Engineering and Sustainability
- NSF Human & Social Dynamics
- Blue Moon Fund
- Compton Foundation, Environment and Sustainability
Check with Stanford development office - Andrew S. Mellon Foundation, Conservation and the Environment Program (Grants for new faculty)
- Woods Institute for the Environment, Environmental Venture Projects
- Resources Posted by Other Universities and Organizations
- University of Wisconsin - Madison, Nelson Institute
- UCSB Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
- UCB Energy and Resources Group
- The National Academies of Science
Fellowship, Scholarship, and Grants Programs - Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation
Summer, postdoc, and some graduate fellowships targeted toward ÒactivistsÓ - Social Sciences Research Council
- The Foundation Center
Allows searching for foundations and corporate funders
- Summer Funding and Other Opportunities
- School of Earth Sciences/IPER Research Grants
- Summer Programs and Internships
- Stanford Graduate Summer Institute, Stanford, CA
- Graduate School of Business Summer Entrepreneurship, Stanford University
- AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship
- Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability - Munich Re Foundation and United Nations
University Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Munich, Germany - Property and Environment Research Center Fellowship Program
- Resources for the Future (RFF) Summer Internship Program
- The City of Palo Alto- Summer Internships
- Stanford's Bill Lane Center for the Study of the American West- SF Estuary Institute Historical Ecology Program (Applications will be evaluated as they are received)
- Tahoe-Baikal Institute- Summer Environmental Exchange in Siberia and the Sierra
Nevada - German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for graduate students in science and engineering (RISE)
- Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School
- The Cherokee Fund- Summer Associate Internship, Raleigh, NC
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IASSA) Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP)
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) Summer Internship Program
- Field Courses and Workshops
- Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy- UC Davis Center for Entrepreneurship
- Remote Sensing for Ecosystem Assessment- University of Cambridge and Moscow State University Summer Field Course, Kola Peninsula, Russia
Contact Gareth Rees @ wgr2@cam.ac.uk for more information - Annual Santa Fe Institute Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity, Santa Fe, NM
- Debating Science Workshop - NSF and the University of MT (Missoula) Center for Ethics
- Field Study in Public and Environment Health, The School for Field Studies (SFS), Kimana, Kenya
Qualified candidates are considered on a first-come, first-served basis. - Environmental Studies in the Boreal Forest- University of AK Fairbanks Summer Field Course, Fedorovskoe, Russia
- American Meteorological Society's Summer Policy Colloquium, Washington DC