The CARM program is a fellowship and continuing education opportunity for natural resource managers and professionals in Guam to bolster their professional capacity through co-production and higher learning in academia. While a traditional graduate fellowship bridges a student’s education from the undergraduate level to the graduate level, or graduate level to doctoral level, the CARM program works with natural resource agencies to seek out individuals with substantial field experience who can benefit from receiving advanced education and further build technical capacity of the agency they serve. Selected participants translate their priority management projects into research questions, which then become the focus of their graduate research project.

Individuals who are eligible for this program must:

• be legally allowed to study and/or work in Guam;
• hold a bachelor’s degree in a U.S. accredited four-year institution;
• be employed as a part- or full-time natural resource manager or manager-adjacent role in a Guam-based agency or organization; and
• be admitted to or intend to enroll in a master’s program at the University of Guam.

Tuition and fees will be covered by PI-CASC. Selected individuals may also be eligible to receive an additional educational stipend based on their needs per academic year, to be determined on a case-by-case basis.

For more information and to apply, please contact PI-CASC Communications Lead John I. Borja at borjaj4619@triton.uog.edu.

The CARM program aligns with PI-CASC’s vision to develop applied science, knowledge products, and other services to support policy and management directed toward the sustainability of interconnected human and ecological communities and the conservation of species of concern on Guam.

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