M.S. and PhD Research Opportunities in Hydrology and Earth System Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville University of Alabama in Huntsville in United States

PhD opportunity in Soil–Plant Hydraulics and Drought at Forschungszentrum Jülich (IBG-3) in Jülich, Germany . The project focuses on how soil and root hydraulic properties influence plant water uptake and drought responses . It combines mechanistic soil–root–plant modelling with experimental observations from the TERENO SoilCan lysimeter network , including soil water status , evapotranspiration , sap flow , and leaf water potential . This is a 4-year PhD position starting January 2027 . The pos...

Colorado State University is advertising a PhD Graduate Research Assistant position in weed ecology and soil health within the Weed Research Lab and the Department of Agricultural Biology. The project is supported by a Western SARE Research and Education Grant and focuses on evaluating annual living mulches as a sustainable weed-management strategy in vegetable production systems. The student will study how living mulches suppress weeds through physical competition and possible allelopathic effe...

Funded PhD and Master’s assistantships are available at Louisiana State University / LSU AgCenter for Spring or Fall 2027 . The research areas highlighted in the post include agricultural engineering , crop–atmosphere interactions , digital agriculture , and sustainable systems . This is a good fit for students interested in applied research at the intersection of agriculture, environmental processes, and data-driven farming systems. The post indicates that both PhD and Master’s assistantships a...

Oklahoma State University’s RISE Lab (Research in Irrigation Scheduling and Engineering), led by Sumon Datta, is hiring a Postdoctoral Scholar for work on regional evapotranspiration (ET) forecasting . The project is funded through NASA and focuses on developing ET forecasting models that will be integrated into the lab’s OASIS tool . This opportunity is especially relevant for researchers with interests in water resources , remote sensing , irrigation scheduling , environmental modeling, and ag...

USDA-ARS is offering a postdoctoral research opportunity in Temple, Texas, United States focused on pastureland conservation outcomes , soil and water resources , hydrologic monitoring , remote sensing , GIS , and process-based modeling . The project supports the mission of the USDA Agricultural Research Service and involves ranch-scale, long-term research on sustainable forage and crop production. The selected researcher will work on field and laboratory studies, implement management treatments...