Resources for Students and ECR
This list includes many resources for students and early career researchers (ECR) that many Jasper Ridge students, postdocs, and staff have shared with us for everyone.
The list includes:
- Graduate School Preview Programs
- Funded Organismal Biology MS Programs
- Summer research opportunities
- Funding opportunities for all career stages (national and international) - undergraduate graduate, postdoctoral, and early career
- Organizations with links to their conferences/meetings.
- Organizations and job boards related to the outdoors
- Natural history book recommendations
- Fun, relax and take a break section
The idea for this resource started with Jorge Ramos and Julien Ueda. We continue to update it and add more resources thanks to: Allison Stegner, Tyler McFadden, Stacy Farina, Suzanne Ou, Itati SantaMaria de Chavez y Vasquez!
If you would like to add an additional resource please, send it to Jorge Ramos (jorge.ramos @ stanford.edu).
GRADUATE SCHOOL PREVIEW PROGRAMS
Michigan State University Hosted by the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Preview Program
Stanford Biology PhD Preview Program
UC Davis Evolution & Ecology Graduate School Preview Program
University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Graduate School Preview Program
FUNDED ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY MS PROGRAMS
- List of Departments that have a fully-funded Masters program that includes Ecology, Evolution, or Organsimal Biology (Thanks to Dr. Stacy Farina, Assistant Professor of Biology at Howard University):
SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAMS/INTERNSHIPS
NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) for 19 different STEM, education, ethics, and social sciences fields:
The Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program offers research and leadership opportunities in five institutions and programs:
- Main website: https://www.ddcf.org/
- UC Santa Cruz: https://conservationscholars.ucsc.edu/
- University of Florida, University of Arizona, University of Idaho, North Carolina State University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Cornell University: https://ddcsp-collaborative.org/
- University of Michigan (DDCSP at UM) https://conservationscholars.seas.umich.edu/
- University of Washington http://uwconservationscholars.org/
- Yale School of the Environment https://conservationscholars.yale.edu/
Geological Society of America GeoCorps Internships: paid Geoscience internships on public lands (can include geology, paleontology, archaeology, STEM outreach, and even ecology)--positions for undergrads and recent graduates. Mostly in summer but not exclusively.
ESA SEEDS SPUR Research Fellowship:
Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS)
- Website: https://soars.ucar.edu/
Stanford Biology Summer Undergraduate Research Program (B-SURP) Funded Spring and Summer Research in Biology
Stanford Bio-X Funded Research
- Stanford Bio-X supports research and educational opportunities that cross disciplines between the biological or biomedical sciences and fields of engineering, physics and computational science: https://biox.stanford.edu/research
Stanford Earth Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SESUR)
Stanford Earth Summer Undergraduate Research in Geoscience and Engineering Program (SURGE)
- Website: https://earth.stanford.edu/dei/surge
Stanford Conservation Program
- Website: https://conservation.stanford.edu/
FUNDING FOR ALL CAREER STAGES:
Stanford Eco Evo Graduate students have put together a list of resources of funding for students (some of the resources in this page are listed in there with more detail)
- Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lTu2V1cbHpLBumRe0atcxPMjUKX8jSyQNO3JWK_jVgI/edit?usp=sharing
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellowships
American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education
BOREN fellowships: Undergraduate Boren Scholars and graduate Boren Fellows.
Bullitt Foundation (must be involved in Pacific NW universsity and research)
EPA Related with National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Fellowships
Ernest F. Hollings NOAA Unndergraduate Scholarship
External Fellowships for International Students from CALTECH
Ford Foundation:
- https://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/index.htm
- The Ford foundation has three applications for three career stages funding,
- Predoctoral Program Announcement: https://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/pgasite/documents/webpage/pga_362124.pdf
- Dissertation Program Announcement: https://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/pgasite/documents/webpage/pga_362125.pdf
- Postdoctoral Program Announcement: https://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/pgasite/documents/webpage/pga_362126.pdf
Garden Club of America
- Multiple scholarships: https://www.gcamerica.org/scholarships
Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve offers funding:
- Research grants: https://jrbp.stanford.edu/research
- Education and outreach awards: https://jrbp.stanford.edu/content/jasper-ridge-environmental-education-scholar-award
The Nature Conservancy (Postdocs):
NASA
- Fellowships: https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/
- Graduate Research: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/strg/nstgro
- Funding your career steps with NASA: https://science.nasa.gov/learners/learner-opportunities
- Others: https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/index.do;jsessionid=JGXtIPAA2L3iyLw7q8i4loNx7VKhjIsEAccfzpYLjHV8y8yjoouV!2034405454!wnp2.nasaprs.com!7006!-1!-1301199436!wnp1.nasaprs.com!7006!-1
National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Graduate studies (GRFP): https://www.nsfgrfp.org/
- NSF also offers funding for postdocs: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/education.jsp?fund_type=3
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB): https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503622
- EAR program: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503144&org=NSF
- Office of Polar research: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505887&org=NSF
- Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (AGS-PRF): https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12779
- Ecosystem Science Cluster: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503663&org=DEB&from=home
NOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program:
NOGLSTP: Multiple fellowships and scholarships:
- https://www.noglstp.org/programs-projects/scholarships/
- Out to Innovate Career Development Fellowship for Trans, Nonbinary, and Intersex people in STEM (formerly Ben Barres Fellowship)
NRC Research Associateship Programs (RAP):
OECD:
- Research Fellowships and Conference Sponsorship: https://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/crp-research-fellowships-and-conference-sponsorship.htm
- Co-operative Research Programme https://www.oecd.org/agriculture/crp/applications/
oSTEM Scholarship Program
- Scholarships that members of the LGBTQ+ STEM community: https://ostem.org/page/scholarship-program
Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities, provided by Dr. Denis Wirtz, from Johns Hopkins University:
Simons Early Career Scientist:
- Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-early-career-investigator-in-marine-microbial-ecology-and-evolution-awards/
- Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-marine-microbial-ecology/
Smith Fellows:
Stanford Bass University Undergraduate Fellows:
Stanford Funding Opportunities for Postdocs in multiple fields:
- More than 25 opportunities: https://postdocs.stanford.edu/fellowships
- https://cardinalservice.stanford.edu/opportunities/bio-futures-fellowship
Univ of California: 2020-21 President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship awards
USGS, Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program
USDA:
ORGANIZATIONS, SOCIETIES AND ANNUAL CONFERENCES
- American Geophysical Union (AGU):
Website https://www.agu.org/
AGU Bridge Program: https://www.agu.org/Learn-and-Develop/Learn/Travel-Research-Grants/AGU-Bridge-Program
Conference: https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES):
Website: https://www.aises.org/
2021 National Conference https://na.eventscloud.com/website/13466/home
- American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS):
Website: https://www.aibs.org/
- American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB Scholars Program)
- Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO):
Website: https://www.aslo.org/
ASLO Multicultural Program Scholarship: https://science.hamptonu.edu/mes/aslo.cfm
- Association Society of Naturalists (ASN):
Website: https://www.amnat.org/home.html
Awards: https://www.amnat.org/awards.html
- Botanical Society of America
Website: https://cms.botany.org/home.html
Conferences: https://botany.org/home/meetings.html
Grants: https://cms.botany.org/home/awards/travel-awards-for-students/plants-grants.html
- British Ecological Society (BES)
Website: https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/
Many funding opportunities: https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/funding/
Conference: https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/events/
- California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education
Website: https://www.caldiversityforum.org/
- California Native Plant Society (CNPS) Santa Clara Valley Chapter
Website: https://www.cnps-scv.org/education/32-scholarships/327-scholarships-instructions-deadlines
- COPUS:
Website: http://copus.org/awards/copus-ideals/
- Ecological Society of America (ESA):
Website: https://www.esa.org/
SEEDS Program and chapter (so many funding opportunities: research, fellowships, workshops, field trips, meeting funds, etc): https://www.esa.org/seeds/
ESA Sections (30+ funding opportunities): https://www.esa.org/sections/
ESA 2021 Annual meeting: https://www.esa.org/longbeach/
How to submit a successful abstract: https://www.esa.org/events/the-esa-weekly-water-cooler/how-to-submit-a-good-abstract-for-esa2021/
Check if your school has a chapter, here is the Stanford SEEDS chapter website: http://stanfordseeds.weebly.com/
- Evolution Conference:
Website: https://www.evolutionmeetings.org/
- Latinos in Science and Engineering (MAES):
Website: https://mymaes.org/
Many programs: https://mymaes.org/programs/
- Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER):
Website: https://lternet.edu/
Check each site for REUs and other internships
Attend their LTER All hands meeting (every two years)
- Minorities in Agriculture, National Resources and Related Sciences (MANRRS):
Website: https://www.manrrs.org/
National Conference: https://www.manrrs.org/nationalconference
- North American Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE):
Website: http://www.ialena.org/
Annual Meeting: http://www.ialena.org/annual-meeting.html
- Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS), Jasper Ridge is a member of OBFS:
Website: https://www.obfs.org/
The Virtual Field: https://thevirtualfield.org/about/
Annual Meeting: https://www.obfs.org/annual-meeting
- ReclaimingSTEM
West and East conferences website: https://reclaimingstem.wardofcode.com/
- Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER)
Conferences and travel scholarships: https://saberbio.wildapricot.org/
- SACNAS:
Website: https://www.sacnas.org/
How to submit a successful abstract: https://youtu.be/z13Y399DgSk
How to present virtually: https://youtu.be/yvOjiesx7po
Best Practices and Resources for Virtual Student Presentations: https://youtu.be/xHRGHF49A9Q
Check if your school has a chapter, here is the Stanford SACNAS chapter website: Stanford SACNAS Chapter
- Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE):
Website and awards: http://www.evolutionsociety.org/
- Society of Conservation Biology (SCB):
Website: https://conbio.org/
2021 ICCB: https://conbio.org/
Funding for postdocs: https://conbio.org/mini-sites/smith-fellows
- Society for Freshwater Scientists (SFS):
Website: https://freshwater-science.org/
- Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB):
Website: https://www.systbio.org/
- Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS):
Website: https://www.sws.org/
Meeting: https://www.sws.org/annual-meetings/
Student awards: https://www.sws.org/students/
SWS Multicultural Mentoring Program (SWaMMP): https://www.sws.org/swammp/
- TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy
Graduate and postdoct positions: https://tomkat.stanford.edu/fellowships
- Western Field Ornithologists
Website: https://westernfieldornithologists.org/
- Western Society of Naturalists
Website: https://www.wsn-online.org/
- Wildlife Society
Website: https://wildlife.org/
Conference: https://wildlife.org/2020-conference/
The western section of TWS: https://tws-west.org/
ORGANIZATIONS OF INTEREST WITH MORE RESOURCES AND JOBS:
- 500 Queer Scientists: https://500queerscientists.com/
- 500 Women Scientists: https://500womenscientists.org/
- ADVANCEGeo: http://www.awg.org/
- American Hiking Society: https://americanhiking.org/hiking-resources/racism-in-the-outdoors/
- American Indian College Fund: https://collegefund.org/
- Audubon Society: https://www.audubon.org/
- Association of Zoos and Aquariums: https://www.aza.org/jobs
- Bay Nature Magazine: https://baynature.org/
- Black Birders: https://www.audubon.org/black-birders-week
- Black Botanists Week: https://blackbotanistsweek.weebly.com/
- Black Girls Trekkin: https://www.instagram.com/blackgirlstrekkin/
- Black in Geoscience: https://blackingeoscience.org/
- The Black Neighborhood: https://theblackneighborhood.org/
- California Academy of Sciences: https://www.calacademy.org/
- California Dept of Parks and Recreation: https://www.parks.ca.gov/
- California Native Plant Society (CNPS): https://www.cnps.org/about/contact
- California Indian Museum & Cultural Center: https://cimcc.org/
- Cientifico Latino: https://www.cientificolatino.com/
- Changescale: https://www.changescale.org/
- Continental Divide National Scenic Trail (CDT): https://continentaldividetrail.org/
- DiverseGreen: https://diversegreen.org/
- Disabled Hikers: https://disabledhikers.com/
- Disabled Photographer Project: https://www.denisevasquezphotography.com/post/having-access-to-the-outdoors-matters
- Eco Evo Faculty Jobs: 2020-2021 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hf_q-3gdyOlsk97I3OW97w_cmQXsKQVC-ZGDMgFnL2I/edit
- Ecology and evolutionary biology #EEBMentorMatch: https://eebmentormatch.com/
- Field Program: https://cpaess.ucar.edu/gold/field-project
- Freedom birders: https://freedombirders.org/
- GEOLatinas: https://geolatinas.weebly.com/
- Greening Youth Foundation: https://gyfoundation.org/
- Green2.0: https://diversegreen.org/
- Hikeclerb: https://www.instagram.com/hikeclerb/
- iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/
- Justice Outside: https://justiceoutside.org/we-are-justice-outside/
- Inclusive Outdoors Project: https://www.inclusiveoutdoorsproject.com/
- Intersectional environmentalism: https://www.intersectionalenvironmentalist.com/
- Latino Outdoors: https://latinooutdoors.org/
- LGBTQ+ Outdoor Job Board: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GOdfg97K2MbCff00sIn3QqlMAu8gpeJl4Nx3iwuDqNw/edit#gid=1322308115
- Mothers in Science: https://www.mothersinscience.com/whoweare
- National Parks: https://www.npca.org/
- National Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/index.htm
- National Wildlife Federation: https://www.nwf.org/
- Native Women's Wilderness: https://www.nativewomenswilderness.org/
- Next 100 Coalition: https://next100coalition.org/
- News from Native California: http://newsfromnativecalifornia.com/
- National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP): https://www.noglstp.org/outtoinnovate/
- Ologies podcast: https://www.alieward.com/ologies
- Outdoor Afro: https://outdoorafro.com/
- Outdoor Asian: https://www.outdoorasian.com/
- Outdoor Scholarships: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13lNO-X4cYbPa6VwAt33JXCpVg_2qC0A2...
- Outdoor F.U.T.U.R.E. initiative: https://outdoorfuture.org/
- Out in STEM: https://ostem.org/
- Resources DEIJ in Nature, Ecology, and Conservation: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K-N6o07mUl5xSLVwHGhe54m550bUBVHU...
- Rising Routes: https://www.risingroutes.org/
- San Francisco Bird Bay Observatory: https://www.sfbbo.org/
- Santa Cruz Mountain Stewardship Network: http://scmsn.net/
- Save the Redwoods League: https://www.savetheredwoods.org/
- SOLESS: https://ciresdiversity.colorado.edu/soless
- Solo Moms in STEMM: https://www.mothersinscience.com/solo-moms-in-stemm
- Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance: https://suwa.org/
- STEMNoire: https://www.stemnoire.org/
- Story Collider: https://www.storycollider.org/
- UC California Naturalist: http://calnat.ucanr.edu/
- UC Natural Reserve System: https://ucnrs.org/
- US Fish and Wildlife Service: https://www.fws.gov/
NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS
(alphabetical order by Author (fisrt name) suggested by our Jasper Ridge affiliates)
- Aldo Leopold (A Sand County Almanac)
- Andrea Wulf (The Invention of Nature)
- Anurag Agrawal (Monarchs and Milkweed)
- Barbara Thiers (Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World's Plants)
- Beronda Montgomery (Lessons From Plants)
- Carl Sagan (Cosmos, Billions and billions, more)
- Carolyn Finney (Black Faces, White Spaces)
- Dan Flores (Coyote America)
- David Quamman--Monster of God (large predator conservation), Song of the Dodo (Biogeography), Spillover (Zoonotic diseases), The Tangled Tree (molecular phylogenetics), many others
- Ed Yong (I Contain Multitudes)
- Enrique Salmon (Iwígara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science)
- EO Wilson (Diversity of Life, many more)
- Helen Macdonald (H is for Hawk)
- Hope Jahren (Lab Girl, The Story of More)
- Jennifer Ackerman (many about birds)
- John Muir (many!)
- John Steinbeck (many!)
- Lulu Miller (Why Fist Dont Exist)
- Merlin Sheldrake (Entangled Life)
- Michael R. Canfield (Field Notes on Science and Nature)
- Michelle Nijhuis (Beloved Beasts)
- Peter Wohlleben (Hidden life of trees, many more)
- Rachel Carson (Silent Spring)
- Robin Wall Kimmerer (Braiding Sweetgrass, Gathering Moss)
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States)
- Shepard Krech (Spirits of the Air Birds and American Indians in the South)
- Wendy Williams (The Language of Butterflies)
- Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens, Homo Deus and more)
FUN, RELAX AND TAKE A BREAK SECTION
- Anthropocene Sketch Book: https://www.instagram.com/anthropocenesketchbook/
- Bird and moon: http://www.birdandmoon.com/
- Indexed: http://thisisindexed.com/
- Dinosaur comics: https://qwantz.com/index.php
- Dinos and comics: https://twitter.com/dino_comics
- Errant Science: https://twitter.com/ErrantScience
- False knees: https://falseknees.com/archive.html
- Find that Lizard: https://earynmcgee.com/about-findthatlizard
- Foxes in Love: https://twitter.com/foxes_in_love
- Liz and Mollie: https://twitter.com/lizandmollie
- PhD Comics: http://phdcomics.com/
- Poorly Drawn Lines: https://poorlydrawnlines.com/
- Stranger Planet: https://twitter.com/nathanwpyle
- The life of Sharks: https://twitter.com/thelifeofsharks
- The Oatmeal: https://theoatmeal.com/
- Tom Gauld: https://www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
- Underdone comics: http://underdonecomics.com/
- War and Peas: https://warandpeas.com/
- XKCD Comics: https://xkcd.com/
Updated April, 21 2021
