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Environmental Cooperative Science Center (ECSC)

NOAA’s Environmental Cooperative Science Center (ECSC) was established in 2001 as part of NOAA's Education Partnership Program to address ecological and coastal management issues at specific National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERRs) and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

ECSC member institutions

Viewed collectively, ECSC activities aim to impact much of the southeastern and mid–Atlantic coastal regions of the United Sates including the Gulf coast, South Florida, and the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. These sites were selected because of the critical nature of their coastal ecosystems, their proximity to ECSC member institutions, and because they presented ideal opportunities to expand existing research, education, and outreach activities involving member institutions.

ECSC has four primary and interrelated goals:

  • increase the number of underrepresented minorities in atmospheric, environmental, and oceanic sciences by training students and expanding the capacity of faculty from member institutions to participate in NOAA related research;
  • develop tools, including conceptual models, to assess the response of coastal ecosystems and communities to perturbation and develop measurement programs to monitor critical system attributes;
  • improve the scientific basis for coastal resource management; and
  • facilitate community education and outreach relating to the function and significance of coastal ecosystems.

There are 9 ECSC research concentrations to support these goals:

  • Ecosystem Management, Conceptual Modeling, and Decision Support;
  • Geospatial Analyses and Database Development;
  • Ecological Processes;
  • Bioindicators of Ecosystem Health;
  • Ecotoxicology and Risk Assessment;
  • Ecological and Hydrological Modeling;
  • Socioeconomic Analyses and Environmental Evaluation;
  • Environmental Justice; and
  • Education and Outreach.

For more information, please visit their thematic areas page.

Sea Grant

In 1999, NOAA National Sea Grant Office and NOAA Fisheries established a Graduate Fellowship Program in two specialized areas: population dynamics and marine resource economics. Population dynamics is the study of fish populations as affected by fishing mortality, growth, recruitment and natural mortality. Ph.D. candidates interested in the population dynamics of living marine resources and the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing their status can receive up to three years of funding. Ph.D. students in marine resource economics, concentrating on the conservation and management of living marine resources, can receive two years of funding.

The four main goals of the NOAA Fisheries/Sea Grant Fellowship Program are:

  • To encourage qualified applicants to pursue careers in either population dynamics and stock assessment or in marine resource economics;
  • To increase available expertise related to these fields;
  • To foster closer relationships between academic scientist and NOAA Fisheries; and
  • To provide real-world experience to graduate students and accelerate their career development.

To help achieve these goals, each Fellow will be required to work closely with an expert (mentor) from NOAA Fisheries who will serve on the Fellow's committee. The mentor may also provide access to research data sources and to working/laboratory space in a NOAA Fisheries research facility and/or research vessel, if appropriate.

For more information, please see the Sea Grant Fellowships page.