Student opportunities database

Welcome to NOAA’s student opportunities database! NOAA has opportunities for students of any level — from kindergarten through high school, undergraduate and graduate, and even recent graduates. Opportunities include one-day events, summer internships at NOAA, multi-year fellowships, and more. Use the filters to narrow your search and find the opportunities that work for you.

If you have issues, feedback, or would like to report incorrect information, please let us know by filling out our feedback form offsite link or sending us an email at education@noaa.gov.

Tips for using the database

Search for content areas of interest.

NOAA has student opportunities in STEM fields, social science, computer science, education, and more. Try searching for topics of interest to you, like ocean, fish, climate, weather, modeling, or satellite.

Searching for terms that contain more than one word.

Use quotation marks around multiple-word phrases you want to search. For example, searching “climate change” will return opportunities with the term “climate change” in it. If you don’t include quotation marks, it will return opportunities that include either the word “climate” or “change.”

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Application period.

This filter refers to seasons in the Northern Hemisphere. If you’re interested in an opportunity, be sure to check the opportunity’s website for specific application opening and closing dates.

Keep the future in mind.

If you don’t find anything that works out for you now, try looking for an opportunity that would be available to you in the next step of your education or career.

Filters:

National Weather Service Virtual School Talks

Audience

K-8 students

High school

Type of opportunity

Event

Citizenship eligibility

No citizenship requirement

U.S. citizen

U.S. national

Permanent resident

International student at a U.S. institution

International student living outside the U.S.

Application period

Fall

Winter

Spring

Summer

Virtual or in-person

Virtual

The National Weather Service (NWS) National School Outreach team is ready to teach and answer your students' weather questions. Whether it is learning about weather basics, severe weather, the sun or space weather, or any other topic the teacher needs covered, the NWS, through Google Meet, Zoom, or Skype, jumps into the classroom to help teach these topics to elementary through high school students.

NOAA and National Research Council Postdoc

Audience

Postdoc

Type of opportunity

Fellowship

Citizenship eligibility

No citizenship requirement

U.S. citizen

U.S. national

Permanent resident

International student at a U.S. institution

International student living outside the U.S.

Application period

Fall

Winter

Spring

Summer

Virtual or in-person

Virtual

In-person

Flexible location

A variety of postdoctoral research opportunities are available at NOAA through the Research Associateship Program and the National Research Council (NRC). Please visit the NRC website for more information.

NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowships

Audience

Postdoc

Type of opportunity

Fellowship

Citizenship eligibility

No citizenship requirement

U.S. citizen

U.S. national

Permanent resident

International student at a U.S. institution

International student living outside the U.S.

Application period

Fall

Winter

Virtual or in-person

In-person

Flexible location

Strengthen understanding of climate variability and change. Work alongside scientists at major U.S. universities and organizations. Climate and Global Change fellows are hosted by mentoring scientists at U.S. universities and research institutions to work on questions of mutual interest. The program supports research on climate variations with time scales of seasons to centuries. The objective of the program is to help create the next generation of leaders in climate research. It endeavors to attract people with a recent Ph.D. in the sciences that address studies with relevance to the NOAA climate research goals. Applications are open annually from September to January.

Ocean STEAM Powered Women (O-STEAM) Fellowship

Audience

High school

Type of opportunity

Fellowship

Youth program

Camp

Contest and competition

Citizenship eligibility

No citizenship requirement

U.S. citizen

U.S. national

Permanent resident

International student at a U.S. institution

International student living outside the U.S.

Application period

Winter

Spring

Virtual or in-person

In-person

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and WHOI Sea Grant (WHOI SG) are excited to collaborate with Sea Education Association on the Ocean STEAM Powered Women (O-STEAM) Fellowship, a competitive, week-long, FREE, residential fellowship in Woods Hole for a cohort of young women from Massachusetts currently in their sophomore or junior year of high school.

During their week, fellows work with WHOI and WHOI SG staff to investigate marine mammal bioacoustics (sounds) while also meeting other female science, technology, engineering, arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) professionals and learning from their collective expertise. The immersive experience includes building and testing their own underwater microphone (or hydrophone), analyzing data of dolphin vocalizations to aid in conservation efforts, and capturing the underwater sounds of whales and dolphins vocalizing during a whale watch expedition. Fellows will learn from communications specialists about how to share their research and experiences with their community.

We are committed to assembling diverse groups of fellows. This fellowship encourages applicants from groups historically underrepresented in the ocean sciences – especially with respect to gender identity/expression, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. We welcome students who are interested in being in a female-identified space.

For NOAA staff and partners: Is the NOAA opportunity that you manage missing from this page, or do you need to update a currently listed opportunity? Please fill out the NOAA opportunity submission and update form offsite link.