Corporate Sponsorships
​and Partnerships

Our corporate sponsorships and partnerships allow us to provide a variety of free research programs for our members and fund SEED projects. Moreover, these sponsorships directly support our mission in helping us diversify shark science and break down the financial barrier into this field.

If you or your company are interested in joining us as we pursue our mission, we encourage you to learn more about our corporate sponsorship program. Together we can make shark science a more diverse, accessible field.
"It is an honor to partner with Minorities in Shark Science to help them advance their mission of bringing more women of color into a research discipline that is so important to our ocean biome. The more diversity brought into a field, the greater the potential for new discoveries and innovation....it is time to help remove the barriers of entry to the discipline of shark science and encourage new advancements in the field.” - Janet Vissering, senior vice president Production and Development, National Geographic Partners

Meet our Sponsors and the programs they fund!

Monterey Bay Aquarium

For three years now, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has funded the MISS Member of the Year Awards and annual conference travel.
Walking Softer 
Walking Softer sponsored the first ever MISS Research Summit in partnership with the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology.

Remora Technical

Remora Technical is a corporate sponsor of our 2024 Workshops! Their sponsorship will fund one full weekend workshop.

Tampa Bay Estuary Program

The Tampa Bay Estuary Program has fully sponsored one week of Spring Break Camp 2024! You can learn more about the program here.

Community Foundation of Sarasota

The Community Foundation of Sarasota has sponsored one week of our Spring Break Camp 2024. They have also funded Science at the Sea.

Re:wild

Re:wild is funding our brand new ICONIC Oceans program. More information coming soon.

The Safina Center

The Safina Center sponsors scientific research at MISS!

The Maxwell Hanrahan Foundation

The Maxwell Hanrahan Foundation funds go towards providing a variety of fellowships for MISS members.

Frank L. Weyenberg Charitable Trust

The Frank L. Weyenberg Charitable Trust helped fund the first every MISS Research Summit held in January 2024.

NOAA Ocean Exploration

The NOAA Ocean Coalition is is funding the 2024 MISS Summer Camp!

Encounter NC

Encounter NC is donating 20% of all proceeds through purchases on their website to a new MISS project starting in 2025, to research how female bull sharks are using coastal waters in North Carolina.

General Operation Sponsors

Siri Calamese from Cardinal Financial
For those looking for a mortgage lender, Siri can be contacted through the link above. Her NMLS reference number: 2075460.

Schmidt Ocean Coalition

Activist Skincare

Appleby Foundation

Past Sponsors
National Geographic and NatGeo Wild - General Operating
​The Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation - Diversifying Ocean Sciences 2023
​Save Our Seas - Gill Guardians
Society for Science
Masala Giving Circle -Summer camp 2023
World Wildlife Fund - Scientific research

Meet our Partners!

Diversifying Ocean Science Partners

Peerside 
Peerside is a partner for this years Diversifying Ocean Sciences! Participants will go abroad their Research Vessel during the Deep Sea Science concentration.

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center are leading the Estuary Science concentration for DOS 2024!

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

MBARI has partnered with MISS to provide the Aquarium Sciences portion of this years Diversifying Ocean Sciences Program! You can learn more about it here.

UC Merced

MISS has partnered with UC Merced and Dr. Sora Kim for the Laboratory portion of this years Diversifying Ocean Sciences! 
Fellowship Partners

Love the Oceans 

MISS has partnered with Love the Oceans for the third year in a row to provide summer fellowships at their research station in Mozambique.

Atlantic White Shark Conservancy

MISS is partnering with AWSC to provide a MISS Fellowship to MISS members to get experience with science communication, shark research and environmental education.

Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

MISS has partnered with the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve to provide a summer fellowship to MISS members. You can learn more about it here.

Field School

Field School has generously donated their live-aboard research vessel and staff to assist with making our workshop dreams a reality. They have been supportive of our mission from the moment the idea of MISS evolved.​
Past Partners and Sponsors
Bimini Biological Field Station
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
​World Wildlife Foundation
​The Nature Conservancy
National Geographic and NatGeo Wild
Take Mar
FUNducation
Emerge Sarasota
Emerging Lotus