Contact Search Gulf Research Program  >   Fellowships  >   Current and Past Fellows Early-Career Research Fellows Our Early-Career Research Fellows spend two years pursuing innovative, untested research that paves the way toward improving offshore energy system safety and the well-being of coastal communities and ecosystems. Science Policy Fellows Our Science Policy Fellows spend one year at a host office located in one of the five Gulf of Mexico states, where they gain first-hand policymaking experience and learn what it takes to make scientific information not just useful but useable. Gulf Research Program Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellows Since 2014, the Gulf Research Program has hosted at least one Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellow. This 12-week program at the National Academies engages early-career individuals in the processes that inform science and technology policy.