URI offers an 11-week program that allows each student to actively engage in an ongoing research project. Research may include lab work, instrument development, data analysis, dynamical modeling, or a research cruise. Topics range from coastal processes to global scale research in, for example, satellite oceanography, plate tectonics, Gulf Stream dynamics, climate change, air-sea interaction, volcanic eruptions, and hurricane dynamics. Fellows will generally have completed their junior year in college. Fellows receive a stipend and will be offered housing at reasonable rates on Narragansett.
Travel assistance is provided.
The application deadline including ALL supporting materials is March 1st. Wingspread conferences bring together experts and other individuals who are leaders in the development of policies specific to the conferences. Honors students at Iowa State are among the students from a dozen other schools around the nation who have special status as Wingspread Fellows and are invited to apply to attend the conferences at no cost to themselves. Students attend as observers to the deliberations, but have plenty of opportunity to interact with the experts on an informal basis. In fact, it is not necessary to be majoring in the area of the conference topic.