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Postgraduate, Professional, & Career Opportunities

Federal Positions Currently Open at NCCOS

Various NCCOS employees doing NCCOS things As of October 20, 2008, there are no open positions at NCCOS. Please check back often, job windows are rather brief.

Please note that applications must be submitted by using USA Jobs. We usually cannot make direct links to the positions because the site employs user or session IDs that expire or cannot carry over to another user, rendering the link invalid. Additional NCCOS and NOAA position announcements may be available on the Working with NOAA website.

General Career & Job Search Web Links

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

Contract positions with NCCOS

In addition to full–time federal positions, NCCOS regularly uses the services of contract employees hired from companies that are awarded periodic contracts to supply personnel to NCCOS. There are a number of contractors working alongside NOAA employees across NCCOS, including scientists, administrators, and communications specialists.

Here is a list of companies who are currently filling contract positions at NCCOS:

Links to these companies are not meant to be endorsements, but are provided solely for informational purposes. These are private companies, and as such, NCCOS cannot guarantee the quality, reliability, or completeness of their websites.

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.

How did you get here?

Susan Lovelace

After a zoology degree and laboratory work in seafood and marine science, I completed a Science Education degree that I used to coordinate education for the N.C. Division of Coastal Management and the N.C. National Estuarine Research Reserve. In May 2008, I completed a Ph.D. in Coastal Resources Management, learning about the knowledge, attitudes and the access to knowledge that local decisionmakers need to incorporate environmental science in their decisionmaking process. I have coordinated outreach, education, and science at the Hollings Marine Laboratory as a contractor for over three years.

Susan Lovelace

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.