National Marine Fisheries Service Graduate Marine Fellowships:
National Ocean Sciences Bowl®
Texas Sea Grant coordinates the two Texas regional competitions of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB®), the Dolphin Challenge for the northern part of the state and the Loggerhead Challenge in South Texas. To find your comptetition click here. The college bowl-style competition for high school students focuses on marine and coastal science with questions from biology, physics, chemistry, geology, geography, mathematics and the social sciences.
The Regional Coordinator is Terrie Looney. For general questions about NOSB, contact Terrie by email at tslooney@ag.tamu.edu or by phone at 409-835-8461.
Publications for Teachers
Texas Sea Grant offers a variety of curriculum and activity publications for the classroom. Click here for ordering information.
Investigating the Marine Environment in the 21st Century, an 830-page marine education curriculum for grades 7-8 by Dr. Violetta F. Lien.
Barney and the TED, an informative coloring book about Turtle Excluder Devices by Dr. Robert Stickney. Classroom sets available. (text version and pdf version)
Owly Skywarn’s Weather Book, an educational activity and coloring book that provides information about dangerous weather like hurricanes, tornadoes and floods.
Trying to Marinate Your Curriculum, a listing of other publications for educators.
For university students:
Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
Graduate and professional students apply through each state’s Sea Grant program for this one-year fellowship in Washington, D.C. Each year for more than a decade, Texas Sea Grant has had at least one applicant accepted to the Fellowship, which offers graduate students the opportunity to gain valuable experience while providing expertise to government agencies, including NOAA and the National Science Foundation, or to the executive branch in Washington, D.C., to aid their marine policy or natural resource efforts. Applications are due in February for Fellowships that begin the following January.Researcher Conference
Texas Sea Grant hosts a conference each fall to give investigators of its funded research projects an opportunity to share their findings with university-based colleagues across disciplines related to marine and coastal research and with their peers at state natural resource agencies. The conference is held on a rotating basis in College Station, Galveston or the Coastal Bend. This year's conference will be held October 17-18, 2011, on the Texas A&M University campus.Ralph Rayburn Texas Sea Grant Scholarship Fund
Texas Sea Grant is accepting donations to continue to build the endowment for this oceanography graduate scholarship, which is named for the program’s late Associate Director and Extension Leader.
More information on Texas Sea Grant’s outreach activities, including for the public and industry, is listed on the Outreach page.