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Apply for C-StREAM!

The Chesapeake-Student Recruitment, Early Advisement, and Mentoring (C-StREAM) program is now accepting applications! C-StREAM focuses on recruiting, advising, and mentoring college students from populations who have been historically excluded from the environmental field and are therefore currently underrepresented in environmental research and management professions. The primary goal of C-StREAM is to encourage and support underrepresented students interested in leadership positions in environmental protection and restoration careers. C-StREAM endeavors to support this goal by developing inclusive career pathways that result in more diversity in the environmental workforce.

The Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC) works closely with academic institutions, as well as government agencies, within the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership to place selected students into meaningful summer internships, support those students in their academic work, and facilitate pathways for successful careers in environmental research, restoration, and/or management.

Please support this program to increase diversity and the development of inclusive career pathways by encouraging eligible students to apply. The student application portal can be accessed by visiting the C-StREAM section of the CRC website. The deadline for applications is February 15, 2020.


The Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC) works with successful applicants (now identified as “C-StREAM Fellows”) to match them with meaningful summer internships and mentors at one of our partnering host institutions, with the goal of providing continued mentoring and support to any Fellow who seeks it during the following academic year and summer if possible. To support this vision, CRC will work to stay connected with the Fellows and their home-institution mentors during the following academic year to provide guidance and support as students continue to navigate their individual track for success. Each summer, the CRC and its partners support fellowships at the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO) in Annapolis, MD, and Oxford, MD, at the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) in Annapolis, MD, and within selected summer research fellowship programs at the seven CRC academic member institutions