Leveraging partnerships with NOAA, Delaware's coastal management agencies, and local nonprofits, we offer the support students need to prepare for their future as coastal researchers, managers, and policymakers. Our fellowships span a range of interests and enable students to make a real difference for Delaware's coast while carving out their own path for the future.
The application period is now closed.
The Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship provides a unique educational and professional experience to graduate students who have an interest in ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources. The program matches highly qualified graduate students with "hosts" in the legislative and executive branches of government located in the Washington, D.C. area for a one year paid fellowship, which is anticipated to begin February 1, 2026.
All interested applicants are encouraged to contact Christian Hauser (hauser@udel.edu), Associate Director of the Delaware Sea Grant College Program, to indicate their interest and discuss the application process. Completed applications are due to Christian Hauser via email by 5:00 p.m. local time on February 19, 2025.
The application period is now closed.
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)-Sea Grant Fellowship Program in Population and Ecosystem Dynamics supports Ph.D. students who are interested in careers related to marine ecosystem and population dynamics, with a focus on modeling and managing systems of living marine resources, and/or the economics of the conservation and management of living marine resources.
Please contact Christian Hauser (hauser@udel.edu) if you are interested in pursuing this opportunity or have any questions. Prospective fellows must be United States citizens and at the time of application must be admitted or provisionally accepted to a doctoral degree program.
More information about both NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowships is available on the National Sea Grant website at https://seagrant.noaa.gov/NMFS-SG-Fellowship.
The application period is now closed.
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 post-graduate 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) Coastal Services Center.
Details concerning this fellowship can be found at this webpage. Please contact Christian Hauser (hauser@udel.edu) if you are interested in pursuing this opportunity or have any questions.
The application period is now closed.
This two-year, paid coastal policy fellowship offers firsthand experiences in crafting coastal resource policies with the State’s natural resource agency. The Coastal Policy Fellow will work with the Coastal Section at the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and focus on transitioning the current policies of the Coastal Management Program into effective narrative policies for the purpose of improving enforceability and making the documents more accessible and equitable for project applicants, government agencies, and the public. Read more and apply via this PDF
