Come to the College of Marine Sciences for an MS or a PhD
(and get paid while earning a graduate degree studying oceanography, Earth sciences, climate, and more)
Are you interested in graduate school and want to pursue an MS or PhD? Contact us at the link below!
You aren’t ready to commit to a Ph.D. program?
That’s ok! Most oceanography schools will make you pay to get an M.S, but the College of Marine Science at USF pays you to get a Masters (MS) degree in Oceanography
The Rafter lab is currently looking for smart students to join and lead their own project or to lead one of these fully funded projects:
1: An NSF-funded project to reconstruct global changes in ocean carbon chemistry (using the radioactive isotope of carbon or “radiocarbon”) plus computer simulations of past ocean overturning / circulation.
2: Examining the global relationship between marine nitrogen, iron, and carbon (a.k.a., carbon export in iron-limited waters)
3: Measuring the stable isotopic composition of carbon (in the air and dissolved in seawater and). This work aims to better understand how carbon dioxide moves between the atmosphere and the ocean among other questions.
4: Reconstructing the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) over known periods of “warmth”
Students joining these projects will earn their Masters of Science (M.S.) in Chemical Oceanography, with the option to stay on for a Ph.D. Or they can start in the PhD program.
Contact Patrick Rafter for more information and make sure to apply to USF College of Marine Sciences in December
