Scholarship support is provided directly to some students by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Killam Foundation through Dalhousie, by companies, and by other agencies, both national and international. Students are encouraged to apply for external support whenever possible (for a list of some external funding sources please visit http://dalgrad.dal.ca/currentstudents/funding/).
Students without external scholarship support are awarded Dalhousie
Graduate Stipends from funds which come to the Department from the
University and from individual faculty member's research grants. For the
2011-12 academic year, the minimum Graduate Stipend for full-time
Oceanography students is $19,000 Cdn. International students receive an
additional sum on top of their stipend to offset University differential
fees.