- Fellowships
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- 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 (Deadline Oct 5, 09) - National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Deadline Nov 09)
- Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowships (Deadline Oct 22, 09)
- NOAA Coastal Management Fellowship (Deadline Jan 29, 10)
- NOAA Fisheries-Sea Grant Fellowship Program (Deadline Feb 10)
- Population Dynamics and Marine Resource Economics Graduate Fellowship (Deadline Feb 10)
- National Network for Environmental Management Studies (NNEMS) Fellowship
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (Deadline Jan 4, 10)
- Dept. of Energy Graduate Research Environmental Fellowships (Deadline Dec 31, 09)
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship Program (Deadline Dec 1, 09)
- Boren Fellowships For Graduate Students
For U.S. graduate students to add a language component to their studies (Deadline Jan 28, 10)
- 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 (Deadline rolling) - Directorate for Biological Sciences
Division of Environmental Biology (Deadline Nov 20, 09 and third Friday in Nov annually thereafter)
Science & Society Program (Deadline Feb 1, Aug 1 annually) - Division of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Cultural Anthropology (Deadline Jan 15 and Aug 15 annually)
Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences (Deadline Rolling)
Economics (Deadline Jan 18, Aug 18 annually)
Political Science (Deadline Jan 15 annually)
Sociology (Deadline Feb 15, Oct 15 annually)
Science, Technology, & Society Program (Deadline Feb 1, Aug 1 annually)
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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 (Deadline Nov 3, 09) - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies
Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Humanities and social sciences (Deadline Nov 11, 09) - Link Foundation Energy Program (Deadline Dec 1, 09)
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Fellowships (Deadline Dec 1, 09)
- Compton Foundation/Population Reference Bureau International Fellows
Open to students from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America - Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation (Deadline Feb 1, 10)
- Theresa Heinz Foundation (Deadline Jan 10)
- Resources for the Future (Deadline Feb 23, 10)
- Environmental Research and Education Foundation Fellowships in Waste Management (Deadline Apr 30 annually)
- Ford Foundation Diversity Predoctoral Fellowships
Must be US citizen (Deadline Nov 09) - Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships
Must be US citizen (Deadline Nov 09) - Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
Focus on applied physical sciences (Deadline Oct 30, 09) - The Land Institute (Competition on hold for 2009)
- Morris K. Udall Foundation, Environmental Public Policy and Conflict Resolution
Dissertation Fellowships (Feb 24, 10) - 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 (Deadline Feb 1, 10)
- 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; Deadlines: Oct 12, 09 (for funding available in the Winter, Spring, and Summer); Jan 11, 10 (for funding available in the Spring and Summer)
- Fellowships in Washington or other off-campus sites
- NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (Deadline second Tuesday in Dec annually)
- The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
- The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship (Deadline Nov 1, 09 and May 1, 10)
- AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships
Must have completed PhD requirements (Deadline Dec 15, 09) - USAID Fellows (Deadlines vary)
- John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships (Deadline Feb 19, 10)
- Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy (Deadline Jan 15, 10)
- Other Governments and Multinational Organizations - International Students
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council-Canada
Open to Canadian citizens studying at universities outside Canada (Deadlines vary) - Social Science and Humanities Research Council-Canada
Open to Canadian citizens studying at universities outside Canada (Deadlines vary) - 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
(Deadline Sept 18, 09) - Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Fellowship, World Wildlife Fund (Deadline Jan 31, 10)
- S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowships in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy, U.C. Berkeley (Deadline Dec 8, 09)
- NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Deadline Jan 15, 10)
- NSF Science, Technology, & Society Program (Deadline Feb 1, Aug 1 annually)
- NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research fellowships and Supporting Activities
- Resources for the Future
- Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships For Excellence in Teaching (Deadline Nov 9, 09)
- Earth Institute Fellows Program, Columbia University (Deadline Dec 1, 09)
- Harvard University Center for the Environment (Deadline Jan 15, 10)
- Public Policy Institute of California Fellows
- California Sea Grant, CALFED Science Fellows (Deadline TBD)
- National Academies Research Associateship Program
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development CROSS-ORD Interdisciplinary Post-Doctoral Research Program
- California Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program (Deadline Feb 12, 10)
- David H. Smith Conservation Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program, Society for Conservation Biology
- Interdisciplinary and Environmental Research Grant Programs (for E-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 (Deadline third Tuesday in Nov annually)
- NSF Environmental Engineering and Sustainability (Deadlines vary)
- Blue Moon Fund
- Compton Foundation, Environment and Sustainability
Check with Stanford development office (Deadline Apr and Sept annually) - 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 “activists” - Social Sciences Research Council
- The Foundation Center
Allows searching for foundations and corporate funders
- Summer Funding and Other Opportunities
- School of Earth Sciences/E-IPER Research Grants
- E-IPER Summer Grant Program
(Deadline Apr annually) - Stanford School of Earth Sciences- McGee Grant and A.I. Levorsen Research Grants
(Deadline Apr annually)
- E-IPER Summer Grant Program
- Summer Programs and Internships
- Stanford Graduate Summer Institute, Stanford, CA (Deadline TBD)
- Graduate School of Business Summer Entrepreneurship, Stanford University (Deadline TBD)
- AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship (Deadline Jan 15, 10)
- 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 (Deadline Mar 09)
- The City of Palo Alto- Summer Internships
- Stanford's Bill Lane Center for the Study of the American West (Summer fellowships and internships available)
- Tahoe-Baikal Institute- Summer Environmental Exchange in Siberia and the Sierra Nevada (Deadlines vary)
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for graduate students in science and engineering (RISE)
(Deadlines vary) - Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School (Deadline Jan 10, 10)
- The Cherokee Fund- Summer Associate Internship, Raleigh, NC
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IASSA) Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP)
(Deadline Jan 18, 10) - Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) Summer Internship Program (Deadline Feb 1, 10)
- Field Courses and Workshops
- Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy- UC Davis Center for Entrepreneurship
(Deadline May 15, 10) - Annual Santa Fe Institute Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity,
Santa Fe, NM (Application opens Jan 10) - 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
(Deadline March 1, 10) - International Arctic Research Center Summer School
- American Meteorological Society's Summer Policy Colloquium, Washington DC (Rolling admission)
- Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy- UC Davis Center for Entrepreneurship
- School of Earth Sciences/E-IPER Research Grants
- US Federal Government (usually restricted to US citizens and permanent residents)
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