Since 2005, in its role as the U.S. Implementing Organization (USIO) for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), Ocean Leadership has funded a fellowship for students of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). 

The fellowship provides a mechanism for undergraduate and graduate scholars to explore a wide range of careers in scientific ocean drilling and large-scale science program management. The fellowship is open to students majoring in communications, education, and/or science and engineering fields, who have significant interests in the ocean and/or Earth sciences, and are enrolled at an HBCU.

For additional information, please contact, Margo Morell, Assistant Director, Ocean Drilling Programs, at mmorell@oceanleadership.org

Ocean Leadership has been pleased to award fellowship to the following students.

2007 - 2008 Fellow

As the newest fellowship awardee, Ms Daria Godfrey is an undergraduate student at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, TX. Over the coming academic year Daria will work with Dr. Katharine Ellins at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work will focus on assisting in the implementation of the Earth Science Revolution Workshops, a professional development series for teachers and teacher mentors provided by UT's Institute for Geophysics.

2006 - 2007 Fellows

	Ms Nicole Abdul is a graduate student in the Marine Science Program at Savannah State University. Working with Dr. Carol Pride and using core samples retrieved during Leg 175 of the Ocean Drilling Program, Nicole's research seeks to reconstruct paleo-upwelling and delivery of organics to the seafloor and water column stratification in the Benguela Current System, with the goal to characterize the history of ventilation and nitrate usage within the region.
	Ms Elda Auxiliaire was a graduate student at Howard University. Working with JOI Learning (now Deep Earth Academy), one of Ocean Leadership's suite of education activities, Elda designed and implemented an education outreach program with the Washington D.C. Public Schools. In partnership with Tree of Life, a Washington, D.C. public charter school, Elda's project introduced ~50 seventh and eighth grade students to scientific ocean drilling through in-classroom activities developed by JOI Learning. The project engaged two scientists, Dr. David Hastings of Eckerd College, Dr. Lahini Aluwihare of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and a doctoral student, Ms Dana Brown of Georgia State University, all of whom guided the students through the classroom activities, talked about their careers as scientists and educators and responded to student questions. JOI Learning is developing JOI-Full Day into a template that scientists can use as an outreach activity in their local communities. See Elda's presentation of her day at Tree of Life!
	During her second year as a fellow, Ms Quinn Conyers switched gears to focus her attention on increasing Earth system science career awareness among minority students. Worked closely with Ocean Leadership, Quinn developed the foundational pieces of a plan for a Career Brief Project. This work required researching careers in the ocean and Earth sciences, identifying potential interviewees, and developing an field-testing an interview questionaire.

2005 - 2006 Fellow

Ms Quinn Conyers was Ocean Leadership's very first HBCU Fellow. Hailing from Howard University's graduate program in Mass Communication and Media Studies, Quinn worked with Ocean Leadership's communications team on a range of outreach related projects. She worked most closely on promoting the USSSP-sponsored Distinguished Lecturer Series (DLS), an initiative that supports researchers who are selected to give ocean drilling-related lectures at institutions and universities nationwide.