By Carbon to Sea Initiative
Applications are now open for Carbon to Sea’s second cohort of the Research Fellowship Program. These fellows will support the important work of sourcing, analyzing, and interpreting research data emerging from this active field. Their research and analysis will directly inform and steer our R&D roadmap, helping to guide and coordinate the focus of our future grants as well as the broader field.
Our investment in this fellowship will help create a public, living picture of the sector’s progress against first-order research priorities to evaluate ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE).
Applications are due by March 10, 2026.
Research Focus Areas
Each research fellow will have a unique scope of work. We will aim to select qualified candidates with expertise in the following key areas:
- OAE Efficiency: Synthesize new learnings and developments in our collective understanding of OAE’s efficiency and scalability across critical drivers. Explore new insight into the different types of uncertainties, our ability to quantify them with confidence, and analyze new developments in the academic and private sectors that improve our understanding of dissolution, subduction, additionality, and other critical factors.
- Environmental Impacts: Analyze new developments across lab, mesocosm, and field trials that illuminate the impacts and/or benefits of OAE on marine ecosystems. This includes biological impacts and thresholds; species-specific to community-wide effects of alkalinity perturbations; benthic community impacts; and upstream impacts in feedstock sourcing and processing.
- Social and Community Impact: Scope a first-in-kind framework for social impact monitoring, drawing on social science research, codes of conduct, and best practices from adjacent fields. The framework will identify potential social impacts associated with OAE research and development, including uncertainty or concern among fishers or coastal users; effects of increased activity or development (e.g. traffic); and procedural justice issues related to consent, consultation, and the distribution of benefits and burdens over time.
- Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV): Enhance our soon-to-be-published MRV database with new developments from existing and new field efforts; add critical cost metrics and baseline data regimes; and identify key data properties to track in the database over time. Identify areas of uncertainty that could be addressed through additional monitoring at existing sites in the future.
Primary Responsibilities
- Attend our Annual Convening for field-wide orientation and networking with leading scientists. Take detailed notes and facilitate workshop discussions relevant to your topic.
- Conduct thorough literature reviews of recent publications, expert interviews, and practitioner surveys to understand what the field has learned this past year on key topics.
- Methodically document research in our OAE research index and MRV database.
- Capture insights in a scientifically-rigorous report or framework. Prepare other additional materials designed for different audiences.
- Present slides to the Carbon to Sea team to share new data and insights developed through the fellowship.
Desired Profile
- Background in the field of study most relevant to the fellowship track, e.g. biogeochemistry, ocean science, carbon removal, environmental science, environmental consulting, marine robotics, data entry/management, social science, or similar field.
- Strong conceptual thinking; able to balance nuance with the need to keep deliverables simple and maintainable.
- Comfortable with (or willing to learn) conducting interviews, managing relationships with researchers, and thinking critically about key learnings.
- Strong interest in OAE and likelihood to benefit from exposure to this field and access to our Annual Convening.
- Willingness to take on a narrowly-scoped project.
- Excels at collaborative, iterative work with researchers and practitioners.
- Preference towards willingness to work within the EST or CET timezone to aid with coordination.
Practical Details
- Duration: April 22 – July 15, 2026; Part-time capacity; Approximately 15-20 hours per week
- Compensation: $10,000 USD
- Research Fellows will work with the Carbon to Sea Science Programs Associate and report to Director of Research & Technology while interfacing with other senior leaders within the program.
- Includes expense-paid, mandatory attendance to our Annual Convening on April 28-30, 2026.
- Fellows can be located anywhere in the world but must be able to attain a visa to travel to Canada for the Annual Convening.
Application process
Please complete the form below by March 10, 2026.
Be prepared to upload a resume and a writing sample.
Qualified candidates will be selected for a video interview.
If you have any questions, please email fellows@carbontosea.org.
