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.
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About the filters
Audience
- The audience filters are divided by grade level. The recent graduate filter includes opportunities for recent graduates from high school and recent graduates from postsecondary degree or certificate programs.
Type of opportunity
- There are many types of opportunities and sometimes an opportunity fits into more than one category.
- Fellowship: Typically provide tuition assistance and often include a paid internship and professional development.
- Scholarship: Provide tuition assistance. Some include paid internships and professional development.
- Internships: Experiences working with a NOAA office that are typically for a set amount of time or work. They are often project-based and in the academic summer. They may be paid or unpaid.
- Volunteer: Unpaid opportunities to support NOAA. Volunteer opportunities can be one-time events or a longer term arrangement.
- Citizen science: Typically unpaid opportunities to participate in the scientific process to address real-world problems. This may include everything from forming questions to collecting or analyzing data and more.
- Youth program: Opportunities that are targeted at youth audiences and range from camps to ambassador programs and fellowships.
- Camp: Short-term events usually focused on a specific topic or theme and targeted at youth participants.
- Event: Single events that may occur annually such as science fairs or outreach events.
- Contest or competition: Opportunities to submit work that will be judged. These include events like science fairs or art contests and typically include some kind of award.
Citizenship eligibility
- Filter based on requirements related to citizenship status. “No citizenship requirement” includes opportunities that don’t have any eligibility criteria related to citizenship status.
Application period
- This filter is by season, with some overlap to account for academic seasons and meteorological seasons. It refers to when the application is open and due, not the opportunity timing.
- Fall: September, October, November, and December.
- Winter: December, January, February.
- Spring: January, February, March, April, May.
- Summer: June, July, August.
Opportunity location
- Filter based on where the opportunity occurs. This does not refer to eligibility criteria related to your location.
- Virtual: Participation is online.
- Participate locally from anywhere in the U.S.: No travel is required for this opportunity. It may include citizen science or volunteer opportunities you can do in any neighborhood, or even tuition support with no geographic requirement.
- Regional opportunities: These opportunities have on-site requirements in specific geographic regions. For example, they may include internships limited to NOAA facilities in a certain region or a regional citizen science activity.
- Participate on-site at locations across the U.S.: These opportunities have on-site options across all regions. For example, the program may include an internship at a NOAA facility with options in most U.S. states.
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.
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The Alaska Beluga Monitoring Program (AKBMP) is a community science NOAA Fisheries-led monitoring program that facilitates collaboration between organizations, communities, and individuals to collect standardized shore-based observational data on the critically endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales. All participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
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American Meteorological Society (AMS) Graduate Fellowships support students entering their first year in graduate school through $25,000 stipends and partial support to attend the annual AMS national meeting. Applicants must be seeking degrees in the fields of atmospheric sciences, chemistry, computer sciences, engineering, environmental sciences, hydrology, mathematics, oceanography, and physics. NOAA's Climate Program Office provides funding to support three AMS graduate fellows per year.
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The NOAA Central Library offers a wide variety of internship and volunteer opportunities for students interested in library sciences, information management, or NOAA's mission. They have a variety of projects that will help students develop research, analytic, and technical skills. The NOAA Central Library often has internship openings as part of the Virtual Student Federal Service Internship Program, which is open in July. Please contact library.reference@noaa.gov for details on open opportunities.
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Each summer, NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office, in partnership with the Chesapeake Research Consortium, offers several paid summer internships primarily geared toward current undergraduate students. Internships focus on scientific field research to resource management and policy.
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Summer research opportunities are available for 10-13 undergraduate interns through the Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Sciences (CICOES). Interns are matched with a research project within one of CICOES nine research themes and work with a CICOES, NOAA, or University of Washington (UW) scientist at either the UW campus or the NOAA Northwest Regional Center in Seattle. Students will receive a stipend of $600 per week ($6,000 for the summer). CICOES also covers the cost of travel to and from Seattle and provides housing on the University of Washington campus.
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The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) is hosting a week-long residential summer camp for high school students (since 1991!). CIMSS invites high school students to join them to learn about basic meteorology, satellite remote sensing, severe weather, and climate change.
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NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) host an online weather camp for high school students each summer. Participation is limited to the first 50 high school students who apply. Camp dates and registration links are updated in February each year.
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The CIMAS/Miami-Dade College Undergraduate Internship Program will provide Miami-Dade College undergraduate students in STEM disciplines with research experience and mentoring. CIMAS researchers will design research projects, guide students through the execution of these projects, and serve as mentors.
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The Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System (CIMES) at Princeton University in collaboration with NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) summer research internships is open to undergraduates for 8-9 week paid research internships in atmospheric, oceanic and earth system science. Awardees will work with host scientists at the NOAA/GFDL, a world-leading center of earth system modeling, research and prediction.
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The Scholarship for Service Program provides funds to colleges and universities for student scholarships in support of education in areas relevant to cybersecurity. In return for their scholarships, recipients must agree to work after graduation for the Federal Government or, subject to approval of the National Science Foundation program office, for a State, Local, Tribal, or Territorial Government; or a Federally Funded Research and Development Center, in a position related to cybersecurity for a period equal to the length of the scholarship.
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