The following resources were complied for an ocean careers workshop at the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) 2013 Aquatic Sciences Meeting co-sponsored by COSEE Pacific Partnerships and the Supporting and Advancing Geoscience Education in Two-Year Colleges (SAGE 2YC) program.

OceanCareers.com
Explore careers; locate colleges and universities, internships and jobs.

The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center
is a national partnership of organizations working to improve marine technical education and in this way help to prepare America’s future workforce for ocean occupations. Headquartered at Monterey Peninsula College (MPC) in Monterey, California, the MATE Center has been funded as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Center of Excellence since 1997.

This MATE Center video shows interviews with marine technicians and a MATE intern on the R/V Hugh R. Sharp. They discuss why they chose marine technology as a career and what their life is like at work.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Related Resources
Current: The Journal of Marine Education:
A Special Issue: A Closer Look at Ocean Careers through the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer: A “Case Study” Volume 28 • Number 1 • 2012

NOAA OceanAGE Career Profiles
A collection of ocean career profiles and interviews from participants in Ocean Explorer research expeditions.

Careers on the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer
Includes the ship’s crew profiles

Sea Grant Marine Careers

American Geophysical Institute
Webinar: Geoscience Careers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP)– Pathways to Ocean Science
Provides information on ocean science programs (searchable by institution, level of study, and region), resources for students and faculty, graduate student profiles, and access to archived webinars.

COSEE Ocean Systems and IBP - Many Learning Pathways in the Ocean Sciences (MLPiOS) Webinar on Paid Summer Research Experiences: Finding and Applying to Programs

The Oceanography Society
Website has ocean career profiles that are also published in Oceanography magazine.

Individual website collections of resources for ocean science careers

Palomar College Oceanography Careers page

Hopkins Marine Station Careers page

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Ocean Sciences Career Information

Careers in Oceanography, Marine Science & Marine Biology

Ocean Job Board has a list of organizations that maintain up-to-date lists of ocean jobs. These are just a few of the places where potential employees can survey the ocean jobs marketplace.