Scientific Programs: Internships & Postdoctoral Fellowships
CPAESS has strategic partnerships with independent science programs, early career programs, and visiting scientist programs. As education and training is needed at every stage of one’s scientific career, CPAESS manages opportunities for undergraduates and graduate students through senior scientists with these Scientific Programs.
Scientific Appointments
Another aspect of our Scientific Programs is facilitating educational opportunities for early-career scientists. Currently, we manage two postdoctoral fellowship programs for NOAA and NASA. They include:
NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
This has an outstanding reputation for attracting the best and the brightest PhDs in the sciences relevant to the NOAA Climate Program Office. This Fellowship has been instrumental in developing today’s climate research experts and leaders.
NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Named after a pioneer in heliophysics embracing its interdisciplinary nature, the NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellowship trains the next generation of researchers needed for the emergent field of heliophysics embracing all scientific aspects of the Sun-Earth connection.
CPAESS also offers a PhD Dissertation Fellowship:
Weather Program Office (WPO) Innovation for Next Generation Scientists (WINGS) PhD Dissertation Fellowship
The WINGS PhD Dissertation Fellows program will target innovative research in areas of scientific importance relevant to programs within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Weather Program Office (WPO). Potential focus areas include, but are not limited to: data assimilation, atmospheric physics, systems architecture, machine learning/artificial intelligence, Unified Forecast System, and software engineering.
Internships
NOAA’s Office of Ocean Observation’s Explorer-in-Training Program
This program is for both undergraduate and graduate students on the only federal vessel dedicated solely to exploring our ocean for the purpose of discovery and understanding the deep oceans. It includes both 2-4 week expedition-based opportunities, as well as a 10-week internship program.
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Internship Program
Soon be rolled out. NRL is the Department of the Navy’s corporate laboratory and is the principal in-house component of the Office of Naval Research’s effort to meet its science and technology responsibilities.
Collaborative Research
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Research Collaborations
Offers scientists at any career level an opportunity to conduct research within an NCEP center and be fully integrated within a national scale operational environment. Find out if this collaborative opportunity is for you.
Multi-Agency Supported Programs
As science develops there is a need for the support and hosting of unique, often interagency-sponsored programs that focus on specific national research efforts. CPAESS provides the support for such programs so that they can continue to develop and make outstanding contributions to science. Currently we manage:
U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program
The U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, in consultation with the Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG) coordinates and facilitates activities relevant to carbon cycle science, climate and global change (such as the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report) under the auspices of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Its office is in Washington, D.C.
U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability Program (US CLIVAR)
US CLIVAR is a multiagency-funded national research program investigating the variability and predictability of the global climate system on seasonal, interannual, decadal, and centennial timescales, with a particular emphasis on the role of the ocean and its interaction with other parts of the Earth system. Their office is in Washington, D.C.