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Highlighted deadlines occur prior to our next newsletter.
★ next to opportunities are new this week!
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6-month and 8-month limited-term positions available, with the ability to renew position.
Monday - Friday, 8 AM. – 4:30PM. Average 40 hours per week. Optional weekend work available.
Start Dates: January 20th / March 10th, 2025
End Dates: July 11th / August 29th, 2025
Apply by Dec. 9 for the 8-month position
Apply by Feb. 3 for the 6-month position.
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This is a full-time, benefits-eligible position. This position is responsible for managing our annual campaign, maintaining donor databases, analyzing engagement metrics, building community relationships, and supporting event logistics.
Application deadline is 5:00 p.m. CST on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024.
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The Clean Water Action Council of NE Wisconsin is seeking an Executive Director to start January 2, 2025, or earlier, when executive director Dean Hoegger retires.This is a 20-24 hours-per-week position with flexible hours offering the opportunity to guide the organization into the next decade. Work at the UW-Green Bay office with college interns, board members, and volunteer members to carry out the mission of protecting human health and the environment in NE Wisconsin. For a complete job description and benefits, email contact@cleanwateractioncouncil.org with “Requesting Executive Director Application Information" in the subject line.
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This is a 12-month, Academic Staff position. The position provides statewide outreach education to residents, public officials, and other stakeholders of Wisconsin on groundwater, well water testing, data interpretation, and general water resources. This individual will be expected to provide high quality programming and leadership on groundwater and drinking water quality challenges in Wisconsin and the region, build trust-based relationships with stakeholders, and seek a diverse funding portfolio to support their groundwater programming.
Applications are due by Jan. 5, 2025 for full consideration.
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INTERNSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
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WQRF is inviting researchers to submit concept papers (not to exceed 5 pages) on the efficacy of point-of-use (POU) and point-of-entry (POE) drinking water treatment technologies in real-world settings. A maximum of two grants, each up to $100,000, will be awarded. Concept Papers due Dec. 20th by 11 AM CST Full details about the call for concept papers here: wqrf.org/open-rfps
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Call for current undergrad – post-graduate students interested in drinking water to participate in our next competitive call for posters. Up to 10 students will be selected to share their findings in water quality research OR public health education at the annual Water Quality Association Convention in Long Beach, CA, Apr. 22-24, 2025. All those selected will receive a $500 travel stipend. One winner from each category will be awarded a $1,000 David Loveday Memorial Scholarship for continued educational expenses. Submissions are due by 11:59 PM CT on Dec. 31, 2024
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Enjoy #scicomm so much that you might like to be an actual journalist for a summer?
This 10-week summer program places science, engineering, and mathematics students and early career scientists in newsrooms across the country as they use their academic experience and training to write and report on today's headlines and communicate complex issues to a general audience! English and Spanish language placements available. Application is open until Jan. 1, 2025.
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This intern will develop and implement a robust wetland monitoring plan in a high-quality Great Lakes Coastal Wetland to inform and enhance regional wetland restoration efforts. A competitive applicant will have a strong scientific background in a field related to the position and the ability to work independently and synthesize input from a broad range of partners. They will also have experience working in diverse coalitions of scientists, land managers and outreach professionals and with state, federal and tribal nation natural resource management staff. Applications due Jan. 3, 2025.
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The program is an NSF-funded initiative (award #1831075, 2019-2021) to provide training in international research for graduate students. The LOREX international exchanges will allow up to 12 graduate students to travel to host institutions in Australia, Canada, Israel and Sweden to conduct collaborative aquatic science research that they propose this summer (2025). Applications due Jan 13 2025 (11:59 PM ET)
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This two-year fellowship offers a competitive salary, medical benefits, and reimbursement for travel and relocation expenses. Starting in August 2025, 6 fellowships are available with the following host organizations: Maine Coastal Program/Maine Department of Marine Resources; Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management; New Hampshire Coastal Program; North Carolina Division of Coastal Management; Oregon Coastal Management Program; U.S. Virgin Islands Coastal Zone Management Program
Eligibility requirements, project descriptions, and application guidance can be found on this website. Application packages must be submitted to the Sea Grant office in the state where you earned your degree by Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. Wisconsin applicants should email their application materials to jennifer.hauxwell@aqua.wisc.edu.Please also have references send signed pdfs of their letters to the same address as well.
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The UW–Madison Arboretum offers Research Fellowships for graduate student researchers. We seek proposals that will address our mission and vision and build on a tradition that began with the earliest plantings to establish tallgrass prairie in 1935 and continued with subsequent experiments to maintain these early restorations. We're looking to support projects in ANY field, as long as their work pertains to restoration and the mission of the Arboretum. Please see the description below and link to the application page. Proposals are due Feb 1, 2025.
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The Freshwater@UW Summer Research Opportunities Program provides high-impact educational opportunities by facilitating immersive, hands-on mentored research experiences in freshwater science across the 13 UW Institutions. This program is for undergraduates and is an onsite, paid summer research experience. Applications close Feb 15.
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For the student guide, click here. This NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship program is aimed at PhD candidates who are United States citizens interested in population and ecosystem dynamics and marine resource economics. Interested students should contact jennifer.hauxwell@aqua.wisc.edu for more information about the application process for Wisconsin applicants. Closing Date for applications is Mar. 13, 2025.
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The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant College Program is inviting research and education project proposals for the next two-year grant period that begins on February 1, 2026. Proposals and preproposal submission guidelines are available.
Wisconsin Targeted Focus Areas ($130k/year), including: Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility for Underserved or Underrepresented Communities; Organic Contaminants and Marine Debris; Human Dimensions for the Health, Well-Being, and Sustainability of Coastal Communities and Great Lakes Ecosystems
Wisconsin Base Focus Areas ($130k/year), including: Healthy Coastal Ecosystems; Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture; Resilient Communities and Economies
Minnesota-Wisconsin Joint Request for Proposals ($100k/year for Minnesota team and $100k/year for Wisconsin Team). In addition, Wisconsin Sea Grant solicits education proposals for up to two years to address the following priority: Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development (Non-research Education Projects) ($40k/year)
Prospective investigators submit a preproposal by 3 p.m. CST, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, following these guidelines.
Prospective investigators submit a full proposal by 3 p.m. CDT, Friday, May 2, 2025.
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Great Lakes Fishery Commission’s FY2026 Call for Proposals
Visit here for more information on the Call for Proposals and the submission process. Pre-proposal & pilot submission due Jan 15.
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5th Annual Virtual Harmful Algal Bloom Symposium - The Algal Bloom Action Team
Jan 9-10, 2025
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Full registration cost student scholarships available! Apply by Jan 20, 2025. Preference given to student speakers.
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14th National Monitoring Conference from Mar 10-14, 2025, in Green Bay, WI.
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March 26-28; Stevens Point and virtual (select concurrent sessions and keynotes); Theme: The Power of Words: Working for Our Waters; The event will feature keynote speakers, as well as interactive workshops, and content-rich concurrent sessions, with time for speakers to address participants' questions.
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Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells, on Apr 10 & 11, 2025; Call for abstracts: open until Dec 20, 2024
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June 1-5, 2025 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; This year’s symposium theme is Deltas and the Coast: A Biogeochemical Nexus with Global Consequences. Abstracts are due Nov 15.
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June 2–6, 2025; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Call for Abstracts deadline is Monday, December 16.
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GLOS wants to partner with the ice fishing community to gather ice thickness information. This information will be used to improve ice models that provide ice predictions for the region. This workshop will share project details, and gauge interest from the ice fishing community.
Mon, Dec. 9 at 6:30 pm CT at Brown County STEM Innovation Center, UW-Green Bay.
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Saturday, Feb. 8th, 2025; 8 - 9:30 a.m. check in | 10 a.m. start
The Edgewater & frozen Lake Mendota (*New in 2025 - if ice conditions are inadequate, the 5K will be moved to a land course); $45 for walking/untimed participants; $55 for chip-timed participants; FREE for children 10 & under with purchase of adult registration
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Award recipients are Wisconsin residents and organizations who made significant contributions in 2024 to prevent, control or eradicate invasive species that harm Wisconsin's native lands and waters. Nominees can be individuals, groups or organizations who showed exemplary efforts to address issues surrounding invasive species. To nominate an individual or organization, download and complete a nomination form [PDF] and email the completed form to invasive.species@wisconsin.gov by midnight on Feb. 16, 2025.
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2024-2025 River Talks Series - Lake Superior Reserve
Join us at the River Talks- a free, informal speaker series at the Lake Superior Estuarium, 3 Marina Drive on Barkers Island in Superior, WI.
- Wednesday, Dec 11, 6:30 pm; Restored Connection to a River in Recovery; Kris Eilers, Executive Director, St. Louis River Alliance
- Wednesday, Jan 8, 6:30 pm; Chigami-Ziibing: Ojibwe Placenames and Perspectives along the St. Louis River Estuary; Naawakwe William Howes III, Gegaanzikiged, Gegaanzongejig Ji-Aabadak Ojibwemowin, Fond du Lac Language & Culture Program
- Feb 12, 6:30 pm; Returning Good Fire to Superior Forests; Panelists from the City of Superior and Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa's wildland fire program
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Every Tuesday from 1-2 pm in AOSS room 823 or livestreamed
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Bring your coffee and learn about wetlands! Sessions are held on Zoom and feature time for audience Q&A.
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Help out with office work, events, fieldwork, or a group volunteering event.
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We are happy to place volunteers on projects that support our lakes! Opportunities include skilled office and administration assistance, special events, and watershed projects like shoreline restoration or beach clean ups.
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Wisconsin Sea Grant and Water Resources Institute listserv
The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant and Water Resources Institutes routinely share information about state and federal research and fellowship funding opportunities. To subscribe to Sea Grant and the Water Resources Institutes’ RFP listserv, send an email to jennifer.hauxwell@aqua.wisc.edu.
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Wisconsin Sea Grant Education Listserv
Wisconsin Sea Grant invites you to join our listserv to receive announcements for professional learning opportunities and resources for teaching Great Lakes literacy to educators, students, youth and families. Send an email to akmoser@aqua.wisc.edu to be added to our list.
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The North Central Region Water Network is a 12-state extension-led collaboration working to ensure safe and sufficient water supplies across the North Central Region and beyond.
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Water@UW-Madison is a resource for communication, collaboration, and information on water related research, events, and outreach in the UW water community and beyond.
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