Funding and Fellowship Opportunities

Pathways to Science searchable database of postdoc opportunities

Federally funded fellowships

  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • DOE National Institute for Climate Change Research
  • NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • NASA Postdoctoral Program, including for Earth Sciences
  • UCAR PACE (Postdocs Applying Climate Expertise) Fellowship
  • USGS Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program
  • National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateship Programs
  • NCAR/CDC Postdoctoral Fellowship Combining Climate Change and Public Health
  • AIP/State Department Science Fellowship Program
  • American Meterological Society/UCAR Congressional Fellowship
  • NSF-Association for Women in Mathematics travel grants
  • Duke/ESA - list of many external Postdoctoral Fellowships
  • Smithsonian Institute Marine Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • NOAA Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship in Washington, D.C.

    Privately funded fellowships

  • Dreyfus Foundation Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry
  • IIASA Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowship
  • World Wildlife Fund Kathryn Fuller Fellowship
  • Travel support for women working at National Labs or in industry using computing research
  • L'Oreal women in science postdoctoral research fellowship (research funds)
  • Society for Conservation Biology Smith Conservation Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Wildlife Conservation Society grants for travel to study conservation
  • Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Research Foundation Postdoc Fellowship for biomedical sciences
  • Pasteur Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for work in Paris
  • National Sleep Foundation Pickwick Postdoctoral Fellowship for basic, applied or clinical research in sleep or sleep disorders
  • Community of Science (COS) funding opportunities search site

    • Funding for women in science and engineering

  • USC WiSE Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • American Association of University Women funding links
  • ADVANCE Marie Tharp fellowship for oceanographic studies at Columbia Univ./Lamont Doherty Earth Obs.
  • Gill Harwood Memorial Fund for female graduate students and female sedimentologists under 30

    • Fellowships specific to schools, states

  • USC WiSE Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship

    • Fellowships to work in Europe, outside of the US

  • Newton International Fellowship to work in the UK
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research Grant Writing Advice links
  • Elsevier Foundation Grants for New Scholars and Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries programs
  • POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowships

    Postdoc resources

  • DISCCRS (Dissertation Initiative for the advancement of Climate Change Research) Career Development Resources
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Resources for the Development of Early-Career Scientists
  • First IV Faculty Institutes for Reforming (Biological) Science Teaching
  • USC Center for Excellence in Teaching Postdoc links
  • University of Colorado Postdoctoral Association
  • phds.org - many resources, including salary information, resources, visas, etc.
  • National Postdoctoral Association
  • National Female Ph.D. and Postdoc database, hosted by Rice University - add your CV