PhD in Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Using Plankton Imaging and Machine Learning University of Plymouth in United Kingdom

[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...

New PhD opportunity in the University of Birmingham group of Francis Pope , in collaboration with the Met Office and Christian Offen (University of Birmingham School of Mathematics). The project is titled AI-Enabled Prediction of UK Pollen Season Magnitude for Next-Generation Forecasting . It is a CASE studentship with the Met Office and includes additional funding plus the chance to work directly with Met Office scientists and spend time embedded with the organisation. This PhD sits at the inte...

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...

PhD opportunity in the University of Leeds group of Lee Brown , Professor of Aquatic Science. The project is aimed at candidates interested in developing new technology to answer research questions in water quality , biodiversity , and ecosystem functions in reservoirs . This is a strong fit for students with interests in Environmental Science , Biology , and related technical methods. The post does not include detailed information on funding, eligibility, or deadline in the LinkedIn text itself...

Funded TREES CASE PhD opportunity at Queen Mary University of London in partnership with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust . The project, “Reconstructing historical bumblebee foraging networks with AI to guide landscape restoration,” asks whether Victorian naturalists can help us restore better landscapes for bumblebees today. It will use historical field notes, county faunas, and natural-history accounts to recover records of flowers visited by bumblebees when their populations were more widespr...