Raelyn Cole Editorial Fellowship
The Raelyn Cole Editorial Fellowship was established to contribute to the development of early career aquatic scientists and their outreach to peers in the context of scientific publishing, including open-access publishing, peer review, and writing. Fellows get exposure to all, and experience in most, aspects of the publishing process. The skills developed are aimed to enhance the Fellows’ research careers and future contributions to journals as peer reviewers and editorial board members.
Science Communication Internship
The ASLO Science Communication Internship program was launched in 2015 to provide current or recent graduate students in the aquatic sciences with the opportunity to learn more about science communication, as a discipline and as a possible career path. ASLO Science Communication interns are mentored by ASLO Director of Communications and Science Adrienne Sponberg in the ASLO Communications Office (metropolitan Washington, D.C.). Internships are typically for a 12-week period and come with a stipend and travel support so the intern may attend an ASLO conference.
Global Opportunities Initiative
A key component of ASLO’s mission is to advance public awareness and education about aquatic resources and research. In response to an increasingly international membership, ASLO launched the Global Outreach Initiative in 2012 as a way to assist ASLO members outside the U.S. in communicating aquatic science to non-technical audiences. “The ASLO Global Outreach Initiative helps our members make oceanography and limnology research more relevant to broad audiences.
Early Career Publication Honor
The James E. Cloern Early Career Publication Honor pays the publication cost of open-access articles authored by Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in need. The Honor was conceived and is managed by ASLO’s Raelyn Cole Editorial (RCE) Fellows to support publication of innovative research in the aquatic sciences by ECRs who have no funding or prospects for securing funding to pay the cost of open-access publication.
Meeting Travel Awards
ASLO offers travel awards to Student and Early Career members to defray costs of attending an ASLO meeting. Recipients must be ASLO members who will make oral or poster presentations at the meeting. Previous recipients are not eligible. Recipients are chosen by lottery from the acceptable entries. Award amounts are decided in advance of registration for each meeting; please refer to the travel award application when registering for ASLO meetings.
Emerging Fellows
The ASLO Emerging Fellows program was designed to provide comprehensive mentoring, skill building and networking training to early career researchers, from undergraduate students to early post-doctoral fellows. ASLO Emerging Fellows aims to bring the perspectives and talents of people underrepresented in aquatic science to bear on urgent challenges facing rapidly changing aquatic ecosystems, while helping emerging scientists identify their career paths and succeed in obtaining fulfilling, needed, and well-compensated positions across aquatic science professions. Through this program, participants can identify their interests, expand their network and find opportunities globally and beyond academia. The program includes programming for cohorts at ASLO meetings and throughout the year.
LOREX
Limnology and Oceanography Research Exchange (LOREX) is an NSF-funded initiative (award #1831075, 2019-2025) to provide training in international research for graduate and undergraduate students. The program aims to foster international research collaborations through professional development training open to the all ASLO student members and to provide a competitive paid research exchanges opportunity for select students. Professional development training will occur through webinars, web resources, and conference workshops. Up to 8 graduate students and 8 undergraduate students (US citizens or permanent residents) studying in a US institute travel to one of seven international host institutions each year to conduct collaborative research in aquatic science.
Eco-DAS
The Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences symposia are funded by the National Science Foundation, and are held every other year at the East-West Center immediately adjacent to the University of Hawai`i, Manoa campus. The Eco-DAS symposia foster sustained, cross-disciplinary interactions among participants; familiarize participants the diversity of available research opportunities; generate manuscripts developed during the symposium, written after the symposium, and published in open access; and provide mentor-led discussions, informative panels, and workshops designed to prepare participants for the challenges of academic and non-academic careers in the aquatic sciences.