Student Applications are now open for 2026!

Applications are now open for the 2026 paleoCAMP which will be held at the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory from June 15-June 29, 2026.

To apply, you will need to: 

1. Fill out a student application form

2. Upload a CV (part of the student application form) 

3. Designate a mentor to fill out a recommendation form

All of these pieces are required for your application to be complete. Applications and recommendations are due on or before January 9, 2026.

Eligibility

To participate in paleoCAMP, you must be actively enrolled in a degree-granting graduate program in an Earth science discipline (e.g., geology, geography, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climate science). Both Masters and PhD students are welcome to apply, but we recommend that you have at least one year of graduate study completed before participating in the camp. Due to budgetary restrictions, we can only accommodate a small number of international participants and priority will be given to US-based applicants. US citizenship/permanent residency is not required.

Student Application

Please fill out each of the fields in the application. Question 4 asks you to upload a concise CV (as a pdf). There is no required format, but include your educational history; your anticipated completion date for your degree; research experience; a list of your technical skills; and a list of leadership, service, and/or outreach activities. Your file must be less than 10 MB.

Questions 5 - 9 are designed to give us a holistic sense of you as a student. Use 1-2 concise paragraphs to answer these questions (there is a 2000 character limit). You may want to draft your responses in a separate document and then paste them into the Google Form.

In order to mitigate bias, our first round of review of the applications is blinded (names and institutions are withheld). To facilitate this process, refrain from providing your name, your advisor’s name, your institution, or other identifying information in your answers to Questions 5 - 9. In our second record of review, we unblind information to ensure that the student group is diverse and represents a number of different institutions.

Recommendation form

You will need to contact one mentor to submit a recommendation form. The recommender does not necessarily need to be your primary adviser, but should be from someone who is familiar with your research and can comment on your qualifications in sufficient detail. The form has specific prompts that your recommender must fill out; long-form pdf or word document letters are not accepted. It is your responsibility to send your mentor the form link and make sure that they fill it out by the application deadline.