Resources
Graduate Student and Postdoc Resources
Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology
- NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Earth Science (EAR-PF)
- NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Ocean Sciences (OCE-PRF)
- Agouon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Geobiology
- Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
- University of California President’s Postdoctoral Program
Graduate Fellowships
For incoming and first year students
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
- American Association of University Women (AAUM) International Fellowship
- NASA Astrobiology Funding Opportunities
- Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award
- Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program in Ocean Sciences
- UC Santa Barbara Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
- National GEM Consortium Science Ph.D. Fellowship
More graduate and dissertation fellowships
other useful resources
Miscellaneous data and Krona interpretation in support of Lee, et al., 2014, “Microbial Response to Single Cell Protein Production and Brewery Wastewater Treatment” Microbial Biotechnology, doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.12128. (Data)
Sequence data base in support of Pepe-Ranney et al., 2011, “Cyanobacterial Construction of Hot Spring Siliceous Stromatolites in Yellowstone National Park.” (Data)
Video projects
- Astrobiology Science Conference 2019 (AbSciCon ‘19), Invited Talk in NAI 20th Anniversary: A New Discipline Reaches Maturity, June, 2019 (from minutes 45 to 54 in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cynNnCs4oqw&list=PL2vV9BqKn2zceAcYc-Ta1U2_P05tH4gqs&index=23&t=0s
- Mono Lake, Algae and the International Geobiology Course, an animated short, Writer and Producer, April, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGm4GCbufsE
- Arctique Le jour d’après; Film directed by Peter Bardehle, (Climate Change on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada), 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viQrHcG5wjc&feature=youtu.be
- A Journey Back in Time, Episode 1: The Archean Earth; Russell Shapiro and John Spear, 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1qleKGeoes
- A Journey Back in Time, Episode 2: Banded Iron Formation; Russell Shapiro and John Spear, 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6haZqkfy_w
- A Journey Back in Time, Episode 3: Snowball Earth; Russell Shapiro and John Spear, 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUdCP9XA_gk
- A Journey Back in Time, Episode 4: Stromatolite Earth; Russell Shapiro and John Spear, 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXg_LgF4L4c
- S at 82N 82W; John R. Spear, Normposium 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8B2_dwz3-k
- The International Geobiology Course, short film, 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38KC4QYRnJM