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2024 Knauss Fellowships Awards and Schedules
Award Total: $73,000-90,500
- $68,000 for your salary/stipend and personnel expenses (FICA)
- $5,000 to cover other allowable expenses. Allowable expenses could include, but are not limited to, relocation prior to and following the fellowship, academic tuition, journal publication fees, academic- and fellowship-related travel, conferences fees, online trainings, and workshops.
- Up to $17,500 for host office-related travel (dependent on host office selection) and/or placement week expenses.
Schedule
| September 2022 | NOAA releases 2024 Federal Funding Opportunity and Maryland Sea Grant opens the Knauss Fellowship application process |
| Nov. 2022 - Jan. 2023 |
Draft applications in eSeaGrant; Candidate meetings with Maryland Sea Grant |
| Fellowship applications submitted to Maryland Sea Grant by official deadline | |
| March 2022 | Maryland Sea Grant programs review packages, interview applicants |
| April 2023 | Maryland Sea Grant panel selects and submits finalist application packets to National Sea Grant program for the national competition (up to six for Maryland) |
| May 2023 | National review panel and finalists selection |
| June 2023 | Applicants notified of application status |
| October 2023 | Meet with Maryland Sea Grant to discuss upcoming fellowship before placement week |
| Fall-Winter | Placement week (Exec. Virtual; Leg. in Washington, D.C.) |
| January 2024 | Meet with Maryland Sea Grant to complete paperwork |
| 13 January 2024 | Submit photo and biographical sketch to Maryland Sea Grant |
| January 2024 | Submit all required Human Resources paperwork to Maryland Sea Grant |
| 1 February 2024 | Fellowship starts |
| March 2024 | Knauss welcome reception and dinner on Capitol Hill |
| 31 January 2025 | Fellowship ends; final report due to Maryland Sea Grant and NOAA |
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
