You are here: Home › Opportunities › Postgraduate, Professional, & Career Opportunities

Postgraduate, Professional, & Career Opportunities

Various NCCOS employees doing their job.

Federal Positions

Positions Currently Open Within NCCOS

Below are current federal position openings with the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. Applications must be submitted by using USA Jobs.

General Career & Job Search Web Links

Below are several career–related websites and specific publications providing information about oceanography/marine science careers:

  • Office of Personnel Management
  • National Science Foundation
  • Marine Careers.Net
  • Sea Grant

Additional NCCOS and NOAA position announcements may be available on the following websites:

  • Working with NOAA
  • USA Jobs

Postgraduate Opportunities & Visiting Scholars

Visiting scientists contribute unique outside talent and perspective the helps keep NCCOS at the forefront of management–driven coastal research. NCCOS works with post–doctoral and senior visiting scientists through various programs:

Ernest F. Hollings Visiting Scholar Program

The Hollings Marine Lab Visiting Scholar Program accepts proposals from established investigators seeking collaborative and highly interactive research experience with scientific groups at the HML. It is expected that the Visiting Scholar provides HML scientists with new technologies, methodologies, research models, data, and intellectual exchange.

National Academies’ Research Associateship Programs

The National Academies’ Research Associateship Programs are sponsored by federal laboratories and NASA Research Centers at over one hundred locations in the United States and overseas. Visiting Scholars select the laboratory where they will conduct research.

The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)

NCCOS hires students and early–career professionals through the ORISE program, which was established by the U.S. Department of Energy to undertake national and international programs in education, training, health, and the environment. ORISE administers fellowships, internships, and research projects at undergraduate to postdoctoral levels.

NOAA Office of Education scholarship opportunities page also has a number of programs listed for post–graduates.