Climate extremes and their impacts on hazards, agriculture, and society University of Manitoba in Canada

The postdoctoral researcher will join the TransMoP project, which examines how land degradation and climate change shape human mobility and staying in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan . Based at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) in Halle, the successful candidate will lead the project’s geospatial analyses and work at the intersection of remote sensing, environmental change, and migration-related research. The role focuses on assessing water stress , veget...

Kostas Andreadis, Associate Professor, is sharing a new research direction at the University of Virginia in the Department of Environmental Sciences . He will join UVA in Fall 2027 as the Commonwealth Associate Professor of AI and Environmental Sciences . The group will work at the intersection of AI and computational hydrology , using satellite observations and machine learning to understand and predict how water moves through the Earth system. Research directions mentioned include scientific m...

The Polar Remote Sensing Research Group at McGill University is recruiting at least one MSc student and one PhD student for the Fall 2027 intake. The project focuses on radar remote sensing of Arctic sea ice using multi-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR) . Students will investigate Arctic sea-ice conditions through radar-based remote sensing, contributing to polar observation and the interpretation of multi-frequency SAR data. The work is based in Dr. Mallik Mahmud’s lab within the Polar R...

Dalhousie University is advertising a Postdoctoral Fellow position focused on child and youth well-being in Nova Scotia , with a strong health GIS / geospatial component. The post is cross-appointed at the Centre for Planetary Health and Sustainable Care and the Resilience Research Centre , suggesting an interdisciplinary environment connecting geography, public health, resilience, and planetary health. Applicants with experience or interest in geospatial analysis , GIS , and health-focused rese...

PhD opportunity at The University of Auckland in Civil Engineering , with a focus on natural hazards , risk assessment , resilience , geospatial analysis , and vulnerability modelling. The project will develop vulnerability models for primary production land and assets , addressing how natural hazards can damage buildings, infrastructure, and productive land. The post notes that the supervisor’s main interests include water-related hazards such as flooding and tsunamis , while the wider supervis...