PhD in Shelled Zooplankton and the Biological Carbon Pump in the Arctic Ocean Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Netherlands

🌊 Naturalis Biodiversity Center is advertising a four-year fully funded PhD position on Planktonic Snails & the Arctic Ocean . The project focuses on shelled zooplankton , DNA barcoding , time series samples , and how deep-sea zooplankton is connected to climate . The work is part of the C-CONNECT consortium and involves collaboration with researchers at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam (Jasper de Goeij and Cara Nissen), NIOZ Royal Netherlands Instit...

Post-doc opportunity at NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research This 2-year postdoctoral position is part of the MONS project and focuses on North Sea zooplankton dynamics , especially the transfer of zooplankton to higher trophic levels such as fish larvae and jellyfish in a rapidly changing marine environment. The work is based at the Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems in Yerseke, within the Dutch national oceanographic institute NIOZ. The project sits at the intersection of m...

PhD position: Trait-based drivers of global plant distributions at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. This PhD project sits in spatial ecology , species distributions , plant functional traits , and global plant biodiversity . The research asks how functional traits shape broad patterns of plant diversity and plant responses to environmental change across multiple levels of biological organisation, from major plant strategies (tree, epiphyte, shrub) to inter-specific and intra-...

Wageningen University & Research is advertising a fully funded PhD on moss traits, bryophytes, fire ignitability, peatland, tundra, and vegetation-climate feedbacks . The project asks how moss functional traits influence fire ignition and fire dynamics in high-latitude ecosystems , including boreal peatlands and tundra, where warming, permafrost thaw, and increasing fire frequency are reshaping carbon storage and ecosystem functioning. The PhD is embedded in the Plant Ecology and Nature Conserva...

PhD candidate opportunity in Reading Ecosystems from Space at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in the Netherlands . This is a fully funded PhD position with an initial 1-year appointment, extendable by 3 years after a positive go/no-go evaluation, for a total of 4 years full-time (1.0 fte). A 0.8 fte arrangement is also possible, extending the duration to 5 years. The preferred starting date is 15 January 2027 . The research theme is strongly connected to environmental s...