The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a robust program in Earth observing and Earth science research, including oceanography. For decades, the agency has supported graduate students through research grants and a dedicated graduate fellowship program. The core and the longest-active graduate student program is the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship geared to students in basic and applied research in Earth and space science. This article provides some history and context for NASA’s investment in oceanography graduate students, along with testimonials from some graduate fellowship recipients.

Lindstrom, E., S. Hakkinen, and M.-Y. Wei. 2016. NASA graduate fellowship opportunities. Oceanography 29(1):82–85, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.19.

This is an open access article made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format as long as users cite the materials appropriately, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate the changes that were made to the original content. Images, animations, videos, or other third-party material used in articles are included in the Creative Commons license unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If the material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission directly from the license holder to reproduce the material.