Funding Opportunities


CCI Research Assistantships

The Institute offers three Research Assistants to incoming graduate students and are available on a competitive basis each year.  Additional funding may be available through individual faculty.

Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund

Funding Opportunity

Call for proposals distributed yearly via email.


Robert & Judith Sturgis Family Foundation

Funding Opportunity

Call for proposals distributed yearly via email.

Institute Awards

Additional Funding Resources

Graduate School Assistantship Information

Office of Research Development

InfoReady Review – University’s of Maine internal grant portal

The Churchill Award for Outstanding Exploration

This award is intended to recognize outstanding exploration activities by CCI students who were supported by the Dan & Betty Churchill Exploration Fund.

Churchill Award Submission Guidelines

Student Outstanding Service Award

This award is intended to recognize significant servie to the profession, to the community, to the Climate Change Institute and/or the University of Maine that draws on the student’s areas of expertise related to climate change studies broadly conceived.

Student Outstanding Service Award Submission Guidelines