ESRL-CIRES Fellowships
The NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)-CIRES Graduate Research Fellowship program is a competitive, educational award program designed to foster interactive research and academic excellence for exceptional prospective CIRES graduate students in earth system sciences and environmental science policy.
About the Program
Application period closed. Awards will be announced in February 2012.
The ESRL-CIRES Graduate Student Fellowship allows students to pursue a master’s or doctoral degree in a CIRES-affiliated department or program at CU-Boulder, while working with the world-class research team at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL). Students will work with both a CIRES faculty advisor and an ESRL science advisor. Awards include tuition, partial health insurance, half-time stipend during the academic year, full-time stipend during the summer, and support to participate in one professional meeting per year. Students may be funded for up to two (master’s) or four (Ph.D.) years. More...
Research Topics
Work with researchers at ESRL and CIRES on any of the following research topics.
Chemical Sciences Division
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Researchers in the Chemical Sciences Division of ESRL are internationally recognized international leaders in a variety of fields, including atmospheric chemistry, climate change, air quality and stratospheric ozone. The research is done in close collaboration with CIRES-affiliated faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder, who specialize in areas such as environmental chemistry, observations and modeling, and in climate dynamics.
Open to exceptional prospective students and current first- and second-year CIRES students advised by a CIRES faculty advisor and NOAA-ESRL science advisor in Chemistry, Atmospheric Sciences and Engineering.
Global Systems Division
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Researchers in the Global Systems Division of ESRL are recognized as international leaders in a variety of fields, including the development of integrated numerical models on all scales, their application to advance the current state-of-the-art in weather and air quality forecasting, and in advancing current knowledge of processes that are of great importance for global climate change predictions. The research is done in close collaboration with CIRES-affiliated faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who specialize in areas such as development of coupled atmosphere-chemistry-land-surface numerical models from convection-resolving regional to global scales, and applications of such coupled models including study of aerosol direct and indirect effects.
Open to exceptional prospective students and current first- and second-year CIRES students advised by a CIRES faculty advisor and NOAA-ESRL science advisor in Atmospheric Sciences, Computer Sciences, and in Engineering.
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Global Systems Division researchers are also recognized as international leaders in advancing the state of high performance computing needed to support running weather and climate prediction models on some of the world’s largest super-computers. This research is done in close collaboration with CIRES-affiliated faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder, who specialize in areas such as software engineering, code parallelization, compiler development, performance and optimization, and research into new computing technologies such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), and multi-core computing needed for high performance computing.
Open to exceptional prospective students and current first- and second-year CIRES students advised by a CIRES faculty advisor and NOAA-ESRL science advisor in Computer Sciences, and Engineering.
Eligibility
Any prospective incoming M.S. or Ph.D. student and current first- and second-year CIRES students advised by a CIRES faculty advisor and NOAA-ESRL science advisor who has applied to the University of Colorado at Boulder in one of the CIRES-affiliated departments and programs. Fellowships will be awarded only to students who are accepted.
Contact
For more information, contact Kristen Averyt, Acting Associate Director for Science (kristen.averyt@colorado.edu).
Applications
Currently accepting applications until January 15, 2012. Click here to apply.
