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Graduate Resources

  • Basics
  • Student Life
  • Teaching
  • Funding
  • Careers
  • Workshops
  • Certificate Prg
  • Conferences
  • Research Ops

The Basics

No Graduate's library is complete without the Graduate Student Guide.

 

Visit the UW Graduate School Resources for Graduate Students page.

Exam Requests Online

You must have approval from all committee members before filling out requests.

 

Need to go on leave?

Prior to your leave, fill out and submit these two forms:

On-leave Graduate School Form - Information and Petition for On-Leave Status

  • Complete and sign the Petition for On-Leave Status

  • Acquire Graduate Program Coordinator's signature on petition (i.e., your graduate program faculty adviser)

  • Pay the non-refundable on-leave fee to the Cashier's office

  • Submit the petition to the Registration office by the fifth day of class

 

On-leave School of Oceanography Form - form

  • Acquire Adviser's Statement of Support

  • Submit the completed form to the Academic Adviser: Michelle Townsend, Room 108 OTB

OCEAN 600, 700 and 800

  • OCEAN 600 Independent Study or Research- register for this if you haven't done your general exam yet and are not doing the thesis option MS (most of you)

  • OCEAN 700 Master's Thesis - register for this if you are doing a thesis option MS (maybe one or two of you)

  • OCEAN 800 Doctoral Dissertation - register for this if you have passed your general exam (you know who you are)

 

Register for 10 credits of OCEAN 600, 700 or 800 unless it is Summer Quarter, your last quarter here, or if 10 credits will take your credit load above 18 credits.

COMMITTEE TYPES

  • Advisory Committee (established at the beginning of Autumn Quarter of your first year)- your chair and two other Oceanography faculty members.

  • Master's Supervisory Committee (established in Spring Quarter of your second year) - your chair and at least two other Oceanography faculty members (one being outside your option, but still in Oceanography)

  • Doctoral Supervisory Committee (established four months prior to application for General Exam) - your chair and at least two other Oceanography faculty members (one being outside your option, but still in Oceanography) and a GSR (faculty member outside Oceanography)

  • Reading Committee (established one month prior to Final Exam) - your chair and two other members of your Doctoral Supervisory Committee.

Enhancing your UW Experience

Oceanography Graduate students get to travel far and wide for meetings and on cruises (Google maps).

 

COASTAL SOCIETY, UW Chapter

 

IMA-INTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES CENTER
Indoor and outdoor recreational facilities.

 

WOMEN'S CENTER
Building gender equity campus-wide.  Offers non-credit classes.

 

EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE
Offers hundreds of fun, non-credit classes in over twenty categories

Feeling Overwhelmed?

UW Counseling Center: 206-543-1240, Schmitz 401.

 

UW Hall Health Mental Health Clinic: 206-543-5030, Hall Health Building, 315 East Stevens Way

 

Crisis Clinic: 1-866-427-4747 or 206-461-3222, Open 24-hours

 

GradShare: a community of graduate students like you who have questions and answers about succeeding in graduate school.

Mentoring

Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to increase Retention (MPOWIR) is a multifaceted mentoring program initiated by the Physical Oceanography community and supported by NSF, NASA, DOE, and ONR.

Teaching Resources

GRDSSCH 630: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

This 2 credit course (SLN 13856) offers a discussion of issues and topics related to developing as a teacher in higher education settings. Class session will revolve around the development of a teaching portfolio, exploration of tools and resources for teaching, and current issues faced by people who teach at colleges and universities.

A Guide for Faculty and TAs on Threatening Classroom Situations

CIDR has developed a web guide for for faculty and TAs on Threatening Classroom Situations:

They have asked for reviews from the Counseling Center, the Office of Human Resources, UW Police, and the UW Attorney General's Office. They're still receiving feedback from others, so the site may continue to develop, but they're confident now that it appropriately addresses a number of questions that have been raised by TAs and faculty members.

CIDR Resources

Planning the Course Syllabus:The form and content of a syllabus vary widely by discipline, department, course, and instructor.  In all cases, however, the syllabus provides the instructor and students with a common reference point that sets the stage for learning throughout the course.  This web identifies components that are commonly included in a syllabus, and provides examples from courses taught by UW faculty and TAs.
Faculty and TA Resources
Learning from Student Feedback
Using PowerPoint
"My teaching improved and I began to enjoy it more": CIDR consults with hundreds of faculty and TAs every year on questions related to teaching and learning. To help us assess the value of our consulting, we recently surveyed a sample of faculty, TAs, and former TAs who had worked with CIDR during the preceding five years.  This issue of the Bulletin identifies the primary benefits of consulting with CIDR that they identified.

Grants and Funding

Grants and Funding Information Services

Grants and Funding Information Services (GFIS) offers Quarterly Workshops free of charge to UW graduate students, covering methods of searching for funding available outside the university. Undergraduates who will be applying to graduate school are also encouraged to attend. Offering two types of workshops:

  • "Introduction to Searching" provides information on general principles of fund seeking, as well as strategies and tips on how to search print materials and the Internet. These workshops take place in Allen Auditorium in Allen Library North on the main UW campus.

  • "Database Searching" provides information about three funding databases available at the UW. Students learn how to get the best results from each of the databases in a hands-on workshop in the Suzzallo Instruction lab in Suzzallo Library on the main UW campus.

 

It is recommended that students take the Introduction workshop before the Searching Databases workshop. However, students may judge for themselves which workshops best meet their own background and needs.

 

The GFIS blog collects and posts information about open assistantships, upcoming fellowship opportunities, information sessions for specific fellowships across campus and other important information for students looking for opportunities to fund their graduate career at the University of Washington. Students, faculty and staff can subscribe to the blog to find out when new items are posted.

Washington Sea Grant

Washington Sea Grant is currently seeking applications for the 2011 Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship and the 2010 Sea Grant/NOAA Fisheries Graduate Fellowships in Population Dynamics and Marine Resource Economics.
Please forward this email to interested graduate students and faculty. Information about these and other fellowships can be found at: www.wsg.washington.edu/education/fellowships/index.html.

 

2011 Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

Sea Grant’s national marine policy fellowship provides eligible graduate students a one-year work experience on the staff of the U.S. Congress or with a Federal agency dealing with marine issues.  The fellowship allows students to share their academic expertise with policy makers in Washington, D.C., and offers a first-hand look at how science is used in the policy arena and how decisions are made.

 

2010 Sea Grant/NOAA Fisheries Graduate Fellowship Program in Population Dynamics

Federal Funding Opportunity: #OAR-SG-2010-2001861

This program awards at least two new Ph.D. fellowships each year to students who are interested in careers related to the population dynamics of living marine resources and the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing their status.  Fellows will work on thesis problems of public interest and relevance to NMFS under the guidance of NMFS mentors at participating NMFS Science Centers or Laboratories.

 

2010 Sea Grant/NOAA Fisheries Graduate Fellowship Program in Marine Resource Economics

Federal Funding Opportunity: #OAR-SG-2010-2001863

The Graduate Fellowship Program generally awards two new Ph.D. fellowships each year to students who are interested in careers related to the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing their status or the economics of the conservation and management of living marine resources.
Fellows will work on thesis problems of public interest and relevance to NMFS under the guidance of NMFS mentors at participating NMFS Science Centers or Laboratories.

 

Please contact Nancy Reichley at sgfellow@u.washington.edu or 206.685.8302 for more information.

Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC) has established the DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship ( DOE SCGF) program to support outstanding students to pursue graduate training in basic research in areas of physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, computational sciences, and environmental sciences relevant to the Office of Science and to encourage the development of the next generation scientific and technical talent in the U.S. The application deadline is November 30, 2009.

More information is available at http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/SCGF.html.

Anchor QEA Scholarship Fund

Anchor QEA, an environmental science and engineering consulting firm, has established a scholarship fund to assist graduate students in their pursuit of higher education. Individual scholarship awards will range in value from $500 to $5,000 and be provided to the recipient’s institution of higher learning to be disbursed to the student for graduate school tuition and supplies. Eligibility and information about application is available at www.anchorqea.com/firm/firm_scholarship.html.

Deadline: All applications must be postmarked by November 9, 2009. The scholarship will be awarded in January 2010. Applications are downloadable from www.anchorqea.com/firm/pdfs/Anchor_QEA_Scholarship_Application.doc (MS Word format).

Dept of Energy Graduate Fellowships

Last week Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy will be awarding a total of $12.5 million to support graduate fellowships to U.S. students studying in fields of science, mathematics, and engineering. The fellowship awards will be $50,500 per year for three years. Eligible students must be U.S. citizens and be currently enrolled as a graduate student or as an undergraduate senior who will be enrolled as a graduate student in 2010. This new program should support at least 80 students. The deadline for applications is November 20, 2009. Click on this link for more information.

Link Foundation / Smithsonian Institution Graduate Fellowship

The Smithsonian Marine Station will offer Link Foundation/Smithsonian Institution 12-week graduate fellowships in marine research in 2010-2011 at Fort Pierce. The deadline for applications is February 15, 2010. Postdocs are also available from this link: www.sms.si.edu/SIfellow.htm

Career Resources

COFS CAREER CENTER
Location: Ocean Science Building, Room 207
Contact: Linda Scheidt, lscheidt@cofs.washington.edu,
(206) 543-0719

 

Visit the COFS Career Website

UW CAREER CENTER
Location: Mary Gates Hall, Room 134
Contact: Briana Keller, kellerb@u.washington.edu,
(206-543-0535)

 

Visit the Grad Student Career Website

Aquatic Sciences Employment from ASLO (American Society of Limnology and Oceanography)

 

Federal Internship Web Sites for Current Students - Federal internships provide an opportunity to gain valuable work experience but often can be difficult to locate. To help you find a great summer or semester internship, this document lists links to the student employment pages of various agencies in the federal government.

 

Oceanography/Marine-Related Careers at the Office of Naval Research

 

Sea Grant Marine Careers

Workshops

Certificate Programs

 

Conferences

THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPACTS AND RESPONSES, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 8-10 July 2010.

 

This Conference will examine evidence of climate change, its natural and human causes, its ecosystemic impacts and its human impacts. The Conference will also concern itself with technological, social, ethical and political responses to climate change.

 

The Conference includes plenary presentations by accomplished researchers, scholars and practitioners, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication.

 

Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this Conference, we also encourage you to present on the Conference YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the conference website for further details.

 

The current deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 12 November 2009. Future deadlines will be announced on the Conference website after this date.  Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website.

Research Opportunities

International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) Project: Molecular Ecology and Evolution of Marine Photosynthetic Organisms

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

NSF

This NSF-funded International Research Experience for Students (IRES) will provide US graduate students with opportunities to gain international research experience at the Station Biologique de Roscoff  (SBR) in France, a research and training center in marine biology, oceanography, and marine genomics operated by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Students will work closely with SBR researchers on the molecular ecology and evolution of marine photosynthetic organisms. SBR is located in Brittany, a western region of France. Students interested in the program can apply for stays up to 6 months. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

 

For more information regarding the IRES project and the application process visit the website:  Armbrust Lab IRES Project

East Asia Pacific Summer Institute Program (EAPSI)

This program sends students to Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand for summer research experience. Proposals are due the second Tuesday in December every year (December 8 in 2009). View the EAPSI flyer for more information.