Fully Funded PhD in Tech and Software for Recording and Understanding Wild Animal Behaviour University of Exeter 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...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent , offered through the ARIES Doctoral Training Programme . The project is titled “Integrating Machine Learning and Remote Sensing to Track Pressures on Migratory Fish in UK Rivers and Estuaries” . It sits at the intersection of biology , environmental science , computer science , and earth science , with a strong focus on fisheries ecology, conservation, remote sensing, and machine learning. Supe...

PhD opportunity via the Iapetus DTP: Enhancing conservation decision-making through scientific innovation . The project focuses on conservation science , biodiversity metrics , and the scientific development of IUCN’s Species Threat Abatement and Restoration (STAR) metric. The work will involve collaboration with colleagues at IUCN , including Thomas Starnes , and is being advertised by Louise Mair (Research Fellow at Newcastle University). This is a strong fit for applicants interested in envir...

Forwarded advert for a 3-year postdoc at the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford , working with Anastasia Ignatieva on computational genomics , genetic genealogies , and the evolution and effects of genomic structural variants . The project is strongly research- and software-oriented: the successful candidate will translate theory into efficient data structures, develop algorithms, and design and implement the core software library. This is a good fit for applicants with interests in ...

PhD opportunity at the University of St Andrews in ecoacoustics, freshwater ecology, animal behaviour, and machine learning . This EASTBIO-funded project, Soundscapes of Recovery: Acoustic Indicators of Ecological Change in Scottish Rivers , aims to pioneer acoustic monitoring for Scottish rivers by developing new methods, building a reference library of freshwater invertebrate sounds and behaviours, and testing acoustic indicators of ecological condition across three contrasting catchments: the...