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Every day we work to make a difference in the health of the Chesapeake Bay and Maryland's diverse natural resources. View our current job openings below to see how you can join our team. Thank you for your interest in Maryland Sea Grant.
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Research, Proposal, and Reporting Coordinator
Maryland Sea Grant invites applications for a Research, Proposal, and Reporting Coordinator to join a dynamic team advancing coastal and marine science across the Chesapeake and Coastal Bays. This position is ideal for a highly organized, intellectually curious professional who is interested in shaping, supporting, and managing impactful research programs. In this role, you will work at the intersection of science and strategy—supporting research competitions, coordinating proposal development and submission, and managing project reporting to ensure the success and integrity of our research portfolio. Other duties may include Maryland Sea Grant research workshops and assisting in strategic planning and program reporting efforts.
Best consideration date is July 10, 2026.
Maryland Sea Grant is committed to building inclusive research, extension, communication, and education programs that serve people with unique backgrounds, circumstances, needs, perspectives and ways of thinking. We encourage applicants of all ages, races, ethnicities, national origins, gender identities, sexual orientations, disabilities, cultures, religions, citizenship types, marital statuses, veteran status types, and income, and socioeconomic status types to apply for this opportunity. Learn more about our mission here.
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
