Environmental Sciences

Undergraduate and Graduate students at any college or university in Arizona are eligible to submit a research paper for this award. Submissions should focus on water issues that affect Central and Southern Arizona and/or the Colorado River.

Carson Graduate Scholarships support outstanding University of Arizona graduate students and their research. The scholarships are awarded through a competitive process to current UA students who are committed to interdisciplinary research on environment and society and science communication.

The UA Water, Environmental, and Energy Solutions (WEES) Initiative is offering competitive grants for the purchase of instrumentation, equipment, infrastructure or major software licenses needed to enable UA researchers to be more competitive in applying for major grants and to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaborations. This could include investment needed to generate data, conduct pilot projects, and increase computing capabilities through software or hardware acquisition, or other related expenditures.

This program provides six graduate fellowships per year to exceptional graduate students interested in promoting the understanding of space-related research to the public and who are studying in space sciences/engineering, public policy, earth sciences, science education, and global change-related fields.

The Institute of the Environment offers up to five Dissertation Improvement Grants (DIGs) in the amount of $1,000 each for Global Change Ph.D. Minor Graduate Interdisciplinary Program students.

The Global Change Minor Program will provide up to $800 in travel funding for graduate students enrolled in the Global Change minor to present their work at academic/professional conferences or travel for fieldwork in support of research.

This fellowship provides support for currently enrolled UA graduate students from any degree-granting program whose work is focused on the nexus of environmental research and decision making. Examples of fellowship projects include: developing informational or decision-support tools, generating outreach activities based on environmental research, examining societal impacts of environmental change, analyzing the vulnerability and resilience of people and/or ecosystems, and conducting environmental science research for specific stakeholder needs.