Are you a graduate student looking for opportunities to do research? The Water Resources Research Institutes may be the place for you. Each of the “1862” land-grant universities hosts a Water Resource Research Institute. There are 54 centers across the United States and Guam. Water Centers are university-based interdisciplinary, problem-oriented research and technology center which receive support from the federal government. This federal support enables Water Research Institutes to address broad national needs and relevant industrial technology. By coordinating research programs which apply to the present and emerging water resources problems, the Water Research Institutes have developed broadly based research, training and public service programs.
Water Research Institutes provide terrific research and training opportunities for graduate students. Below is a list of the Institutes, a link to the Institute and where possible a link to their hiring areas:
Alabama University Environmental Institute
Alaska Water and Environmental Research Center
Alaska WERC Job Opportunities
Arizona Water Resources Research Center
Arkansas Water Resources Center
California Center for Water Resources
Colorado Water Resources Research Institute
Colorado WRRI Job Opportunities
Connecticut Institute of Water Resources
Delaware Water Resources Center
DWRC Job Opportunities
D.C. Water Resource Research Institute
Florida Water Resources Research Center
Georgia Water Resources Institute
GWRI Job Opportunities
Guam Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific
Hawaii Water Resources Research Center
Idaho Water Resources Research Institute
IWRRI Job Opportunities
Illinois Water Resources Center
Indiana Water Resources Research Center
Iowa Water Center
Kansas Water Resources Institute
Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute
Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute
Maine Water Resources Research Institute
Maryland Water Resources Research Center
Massachusetts Water Resources Research Center
Michigan Institute of Water Research
Minnesota Water Resources Center
Mississippi Water Resources Research Center
Montana Water Center
Nebraska Water Resources Center
Nevada Division of Hydrologic Sciences
NDHS Job Opportunities
New Hampshire Water Resources Research Center
New Jersey Water Resources Research Institute
New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute
NMWRRI Job Opportunities
New York State Water Resources Institute
North Carolina Water Resources Institute of the University of North Carolina
North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute
Ohio Water Resources Center – no website
Oklahoma Water Resources Research Institute
Oregon Institute for Water and Watersheds
Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment
Puerto Rico Water Resources and Environmental Research Institute
Rhode Island Water Resources Center
South Carolina Water Resources Research Institute
South Dakota Water Resources Research Institute
Tennessee Water Resources Research Center
Texas Water Resources Institute
Utah Center for Water Resources Research
Vermont Water Resources and Lake Studies Center
Virgin Islands Water Resources Research Institute
Virginia Water Resources Research Center
VWRRC Job Opportunities
State of Washington Water Research Center
West Virginia Water Research Institute
Wisconsin Water Resources Institute
Wyoming Office of Water Programs