Educational Opportunities
Overview
I work to recruit members of the lab from near and far and have tried to create an open and respectful work and training environment for scientists of all backgrounds. The lab currently includes an awesome group of postdoctoral investigators, guest investigators, research assistants, graduate students and undergraduates from both 2-year and 4-year schools. Please also note that Julie is really bad with email, so if it takes her awhile to respond, it's not you, it's her. Finally, we do not sponsor high school students in the lab due to the nature of our work. Learn more about these opportunities below.
Opportunities for Community College Students (CC-CREW)
Application for Summer 2025 are open! Learn more here.
For the last 10 years, together with Dr. Gretta Serres, we have hosted local and regional community college students in our lab and in the broader WHOI communit. We provide a paid, non-residential summer research experience for community college students to carry out research at WHOI. The students learn about what it is like to be in a science or engineering lab, participate in research, and get exposure to the many STEM careers an institution like WHOI has to offer. Students receive mentoring on the transition from a community college to a university and on options for graduate studies in areas they are interested in. Students also have a chance to present their research to an audience of peers and mentors. Students have come to us from 4Cs, Massasoit CC, Mt Wachusett CC, and Bristol CC. Learn more about CC-CREW here. We also help run the winter Blue Economy internship program, and you can learn more about that program here.
Opportunities for 4-yr and Graduate Students and Postdocs at WHOI
There are so many opportunities to come and learn at WHOI. The WHOI Education's website is a great first resource.
- For community college students, read the section above!
- For undergraduate students, WHOI hosts both a Summer Student Fellowship program, which is a paid summer residential research experience, and Julie also participates in the Woods Hole Partnership in Education Program, which also provides paid summer residential research experiences.
- For graduate students, WHOI has a Joint PhD Program with MIT. Julie is part of the Chemical Oceanography program, but can also co-advise students from MIT EAPS, Biological Oceanography, and in other programs.
- For postdoctoral scientists, WHOI has a Postdoctoral Scholar program that awards a paid 18 month appointment to work at WHOI. Postdocs may also apply for their own funding to come work at WHOI, and previous members of the lab have been supported by NSF, NASA Astrobiology, and L'Oreal postdoc fellowships.