Florida Sea Grant is now accepting purposes for the 2025 Aylesworth Scholarship Award from Florida college college students conducting analysis within the marine sciences. Purposes are as a result of Florida Sea Grant by 11:30 p.m. EST, on June 9, 2025.
Established in 1984 by means of a joint partnership between the Aylesworth Basis for the Development of Marine Science, the Southeastern Fisheries Affiliation and the Florida Sea Grant Faculty Program, Aylesworth scholarships are a profession award that help recipients every semester till their schooling targets are met.
In 2024, three college students have been chosen from three Florida universities. Their analysis includes 1) the research of microalgae within the Indian River Lagoon to enhance researchers’ understanding of seagrass habitats, 2) how algal blooms and rising ocean temperatures have an effect on water filtration charges of oysters, and three) focus on outplanting of coral with a purpose to assist profitable coral restoration efforts and sustaining the important thing providers of their ecosystems.
Eligibility Necessities:
The competitors is open to any undergraduate or graduate scholar who’s enrolled full-time at one in all Florida’s establishments of upper schooling, and pursuing any educational self-discipline having direct software in ocean science, starting from biology, engineering and economics to meals science, journalism and schooling. Aylesworth Scholarship recipients research many topics that affect the fishing, seafood and marine industries.
Utility Packets:
An entire software packet consists of the next and have to be reviewed and submitted by means of the Florida Sea Grant eSeaGrant on-line software portal: eflseagrant.ifas.ufl.edu
- Resume/CV
- Private and household data
- A press release of curiosity
- A press release of profession targets
- A press release of economic want
- A accomplished monetary data type (connected in portal)
- Unofficial copies of school transcripts
- Two letters of advice
For extra data, contact Florida Sea Grant Pupil Packages Coordinator Cassandra Sexson at fsg-students@ifas.ufl.edu.
A one-page truth sheet is out there at www.flseagrant.org/publication/aylesworth-scholarship.
