Graduate Research Fellowships with CIRES

To promote scholarship, research excellence, and scientific collaboration in students' careers,
CIRES provides two types of graduate education fellowships. For more information, contact Suzanne van Drunick, Assistant Director for Science (Suzanne.Vandrunick@Colorado.EDU).

NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)—CIRES Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A competitive, educational award for entering students, designed to foster academic excellence and interactive research.

CIRES Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A program aimed to attract talented graduate students at the outset of their careers and to enable current Ph.D. students to complete and publish their research.

• AWARD: Full tuition, partial health insurance, half-time (50%) stipend during academic year and 100% stipend during the summer, and approved travel to one professional meeting.
• TERM: Master's students will be supported for up to two years and Ph.D. students for up to four years.
• ELIGIBILITY: Prospective MS and PhD students in select CU-Boulder department and programs
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Research topics for the 2008 Fellowship competition include:

• Aerosol and Climate Research
• Arctic Atmospheric Sciences Research
• Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
• Characterizing Emissions and Levels of Trace Gases over North America
• Data Assimilation for Advanced Regional Weather Analysis and Prediction
• Enhancing Optical Remote Sensing Capabilities of a NOAA Research Aircraft by Airborne Multi-Axes Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (AMAX-DOAS)
• Linking Weather and Climate
• U.S. and Worldwide In Situ Continuous Measurement of non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases

• AWARD: Tuition coverage, partial health insurance, half-time stipends during the academic year, and sometimes 100% salary during the summer.
• TERM: Students may be awarded a 50% research fellowship for one or two semesters, or for a full 12 months.
• ELIGIBILITY: Any current or prospective Ph.D. student advised by a CIRES Fellow
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No limits are put on departments or research topics.