Fully funded PhD in Machine Learning and Remote Sensing for Migratory Fish in UK Rivers and Estuaries University of Kent in United Kingdom

An exciting PhD opportunity is available in the School of Biological and Marine Sciences at the University of Plymouth , led by Dr Benjamin Ciotti and working with Oliver Tills , Ziad Ibbini , and colleagues from the EmbryoPhenomics team . This project is supported by the University of Plymouth and Natural England and will develop and apply camera-based approaches to understand how juvenile fish use different inshore habitats. The research sits at the intersection of marine ecology , fisheries e...

Emily Lines, Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, is inviting applications for PhD supervision. The research sits at the intersection of forest ecology , remote sensing , and data science , with project ideas including low-cost terrestrial lidar for forest monitoring , sensing diversity in three dimensions , and three-dimensional foundation models of forests . Applicants are also welcome to develop their own project ideas. This is a PhD opportunity r...

University College London is hiring an 18-month postdoctoral Research Fellow for the 3DTreePrint project, focused on democratising and scaling mobile laser scanning for monitoring trees and forests. The role is strongly application-oriented and centers on the processing side of the project. The successful candidate will work with forest point clouds (TLS/MLS), SLAM , and programming in Python or C++ . The project uses low-cost prototypes based on the Livox mid360 LiDAR and is connected to relate...

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Aberdeen within the SUSTAIN CDT on AI-enabled carbon farming for climate-resilient smallholder agriculture . This project sits at the intersection of agriculture , artificial intelligence , environmental science , climate science , data science , soil science , and economics . The research will explore how AI and integrated data sources can improve measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of carbon outcomes in fragmented smallholder farming system...

[Fully funded ARIES studentship covering Home fees, maintenance stipend of £21,805 p.a. for 2026-27, and a £2,500 research training and support grant. Limited number of studentships available for international applicants, with the difference between Home and International fees waived by the registering university.] PhD studentship at the University of Essex on integrating plankton imaging techniques to better understand marine ecosystem structure and function. This project is part of the ARIES d...