Careers
in Physical Oceanography
About 95% of the Physical
Oceanography
students who have graduated from URI with M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
are
following careers in oceanography. They have found positions in
academic
institutions, federal and state laboratories and agencies, as well as
private
industry. Some of these places are tabulated below. Many of
our graduates are national leaders in oceanography and work in a
variety
of research, educational, policy and management positions. The
university
settings include oceanographic educational programs at the graduate and
undergraduate levels.
  
Partial
listing of locations PO/RS graduates are presently employed:
Academic
Institutions
- Coastal Carolina
University
- Massachusetts
Institute
of Technology
- San Francisco State
University
- University of Hawaii
- University of
Massachusetts, Dartmouth
- University of
Miami,
RSMAS
- University of Rhode
Island
- University of
Southern
Mississippi
- University of
Washington
- US Naval
Postgraduate
School
- US Naval Academy,
Annapolis, MD
- Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution
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Government
Agencies
- AOML/NOAA
-
Atlantic Oceanography
and Meteorolgy Lab - Miami, FL
- JPL - Jet Propulsion Lab - Pasadena, CA
- NASA Goddard -
Goddard
Space
Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
- NODC -
National Oceanographic
Data Center - Silver Spring, MD
- NRL-SSC
-
Naval Research Lab
- Stennis Space Center - Stennis, MS
- PMEL/NOAA
-
Pacific Marine Environment
Lab - Seattle, WA
- USCG -
US
Coast Guard
- USGS -
US
Geological Survey
- Menlo Park, CA
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Overseas
- Flinders University
-
Adelaide, Australia
- Instituto Nacional
de
Pesquisas Espaciais
- San Jose dos Campos, Brazil
- National Centre for
Marine Research - Athens,
Greece
- Institute for
Marine
Research - Bergen,
Norway
- Escuela Superior
Politecnica del Litoral-Guayaquil,
Ecuador
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Business/Consulting
- Accurate
Environmental
Forecasting, Inc.
- Narragansett, RI
- Applied Science
Associates -
Narragansett, RI
- Science
Applications
International Corporation-
Newport, RI
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Some
additional sites that contain information regarding careers in
oceanography:
http://www.womenoceanographers.org
Features biographies and
perspectives
of women oceanographers.
http:www.onr.navy.mil/onr/careers/toc.htm
Contains The Oceanography
Society's
brochure entitled Careers in Oceanography and Marine-Related Fields.
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