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Funding Opportunities

Graduate students play an integral role in the primary mission of Scripps: seeking, teaching, and communicating scientific understanding of our oceans, atmosphere, Earth, and other planets for the benefit of society and the environment. Scripps graduate students participate in a significant part of Scripps research. The stature of the institution is manifested both in the quality of students it attracts and in the quality of scientists it graduates. The Scripps Graduate Department offers instruction leading to Ph.D. degrees in oceanography, marine biology, and earth sciences. The interdisciplinary nature of research in marine and earth sciences is emphasized in student curricular programs. If a transect were drawn from Earth's core through the oceans into space, Scripps students could be shown to study the processes and interactions of all the basic systems found along its path.

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CGD Partnerships: SUNNY

SUNNY is a program that facilitates the access of Scripps/UCSD students to the most sophisticated tools of climate research at NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research), and allows NCAR to profit from the most recent advances in oceanographic sciences made at Scripps/UCSD.

Once it becomes clear during the development of the student's thesis proposal that a CCSM and its components would provide additional insights, the student can ask 'NCAR faculty' to become a member of his/her thesis committee. Together with the primary advisor and the NCAR faculty, a plan will be developed how to best use NCAR facilites (coupled model, component models, supercomputers) in pursuit of the students research.

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Every year the student will spend a minimum of 1 month and a maximum of 3 months at NCAR to work in close collaboration with NCAR faculty. NCAR will pay for airfare (roundtrip San Diego/Denver) and the per diem of $1000.00/month for the student, and provide office space and computer access for up to two students at one time. Initial resources for the supercomputers will be provided by NCAR, but it is expected that the primary advisor will apply for supercomputing time. Note that a funded NSF proposal entitles the PI to time on NCAR supercomputers.