Digital Coast Fellowship

NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management is recruiting candidates for three Digital Coast Fellowship opportunities in 2016.  This program is modeled after the Coastal Management fellowship program and has a similar mission: to provide on-the-job education and training opportunities in coastal resource management and policy for postgraduate students and to provide project assistance to Digital Coast Partnership organizations. The fellowship positions start in August 2016 and are available with: the Association of State Floodplain Managers in Madison, Wisconsin; the National Estuarine Research Reserve Association in Wells, Maine; and The Nature Conservancy in Seattle, Washington. Eligibility requirements, descriptions of the projects, and guidance on how to apply can be found atcoast.noaa.gov/fellowship/digitalcoast.html.

For the 2016 fellowship, applicants must complete a master’s, doctoral, or professional degree at an accredited U.S. university between January 1, 2015, and July 31, 2016, to be eligible. A broad range of degrees are applicable to the fellowship because the projects are varied among the partner organizations. This two-year opportunity starts in August 2016, and offers a competitive salary, medical benefits, and travel and relocation expense reimbursement. 

Application packages must be submitted to the NOAA Office for Coastal Management by Friday, May 6, 2016, at ocm.fellowships@noaa.gov

To learn more about the Digital Coast, visit coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/

Fellowship Projects

Host Agency: Association of State Floodplain Managers

Location: Madison, Wisconsin

Project Goal: Help manage coastal hazards and risk, and the natural and beneficial functions by reviewing and evaluating existing policies, increasing collaboration in coastal areas, and investigating the development of a national holistic coasts framework.

Host Agency: National Estuarine Research Reserve Association

Location: Wells, Maine

Project Goal: Determine what kind of ecosystem services valuation information decision-makers at different scales need and could use related to coastal wetland protection and restoration. Examine how Digital Coast tools can be used to analyze and communicate those ecosystem service values.

Host Agency: The Nature Conservancy

Location: Seattle, Washington

Project Goal: Help promote a nature-based adaptation approach to coastal hazards through participation in The Nature Conservancy’s Coastal Resilience program, and advance this approach across the U.S. by supporting and leveraging two local scale efforts:the Community Rating System application process in North Carolina, and hazard mitigation planning in Michigan.