PhD in Micro- and Nanoplastics, Algal Physiology, Trophic Dynamics, and Carbon Sequestration at the University of Birmingham University of Birmingham in United Kingdom

Funded PhD opportunities are available with The University of Edinburgh in microbial carbon cycling in soils . The research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that shape the balance of carbon in soils across different ecosystems, with an emphasis on microbial processes, fungal-bacterial interactions, and soil carbon dynamics. The work is interdisciplinary and may involve omics , stable isotope tools , organic chemistry , and modelling approaches . A forthcoming E5 DTP-funded project with Fo...

Exciting fully funded PhD opportunity in marine biology , ecotoxicology , and ecophysiology at the Marine Biological Association , with research also carried out at the University of Plymouth . The project, titled “Double whammy? The combined effects of microplastics and marine heatwaves on digestive physiology and performance in marine invertebrates” , will investigate how two major environmental stressors— microplastics and marine heatwaves —interact to affect the health and fitness of ecologi...

PhD opportunity at the University of Sheffield within the ECOSOLUTIONS Doctoral Focal Award , focused on leveraging behavioural change to reduce urban pollution . The project is supervised by Dr Karl Evans , Prof Tom Webb , Dr Erin Corbett , and Dr John Wilkinson , and is part of a NERC-funded, transdisciplinary programme addressing sustainable chemical development and non-toxic environments. This PhD examines how residents’ domestic behaviours contribute to the release of polluting chemicals in...

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...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in the School of Environmental Sciences with Prof Corinne Le Quéré. This project, Ecosystem responses to changes in ocean circulation , focuses on how marine ecosystems respond to climate-driven changes in ocean circulation, including AMOC weakening, Southern Ocean upwelling changes, and increasing surface stratification. The research combines observational analysis and modelling to study ecosystem functional groups, trophic structure, phytoplankt...