STEM

This page is under construction. In the meantime, a snapshot of selected efforts is included below.

UHMS-ASMA 2025 Scholarships

Resources for students

We maintain a list of funding sources relevant to undergraduate and graduate students interested in Undersea Medicine and Performance research. Please contact us to request additions.

  • National Institute of Health (NIH): F31 graduate student fellowship
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
  • Department of Defense (DOD): National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG), Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART)
  • Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) 10w summer internship program
  • Naval Research laboratory (NRL) postdoctoral fellowship program
  • Divers Alert Network (DAN): grants, summer internship program, co-funding grants with other organizations
  • NASA: undergraduate summer internship program
  • American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS): research, travel, gear awards
  • Academy of Underwater Arts & Sciences (AUAS): Zale Parry Scholarship, Diving medicine scholarship, Lee Selisky Youth Program
  • Women Divers Hall of Fame (WDHOF): various scholarships (incl. research) and dive training grants
  • Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI): research grants
  • Our World Underwater Scholaship (OWUS): Rolex scholarship
  • European Underwater & Baromedical Society (EUBS): research and travel grants
  • Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society (UHMS): travel grants (fellows only)
  • European Union: Marie Sklodowska Curie postdoctoral fellowship
  • Internal university programs for undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students. Many institutions will have internal programs supporting undergraduate and graduate research that are subject agnostic.

2051 Sea Odyssey

The US Office of Naval Research is funding our STEM outreach initiative to teach students and educators about the past, current, and future of human undersea exploration. This newly-awarded 3-year project, entitled “2051 Sea Odyssey” and conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, DEEP, Divers Alert Network, and the University of Utah, will aim to inspire, engage, and educate the next generation of scientists and engineers in undersea research through an online video docuseries and multiple student and educator design challenges.

The 8-part docuseries will be developed as a collaboration between scientists working in undersea research, and DEEP, an undersea engineering company developing novel technology and training to ‘make humans aquatic’. Each episode will provide an overview of a different form of diving and human underwater exploration, teaching viewers about the science and engineering required for each discipline by integrating US Navy-funded researchers into series development and filming.

In addition to the docuseries, the project will incorporate a series of student design and educator challenges at the grade school and university level. Finalist teams for the university design challenge will be invited to pitch in person at DEEP as part of the final episode of the series.

The initial episode of the docuseries is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2025. Follow along!

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