PhD in Wastewater, Pesticides, and Antimicrobial Resistance in Agricultural Fields University of Sheffield in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the University of Sheffield in the ECOSOLUTIONS Doctoral Focal Award, focused on black carbon in upland and agricultural landscapes and its consequences for food production , soil health , and climate change mitigation . This interdisciplinary project examines how legacy chemical pollution and modern agricultural management interact in a rural post-industrial landscape in the Dearne Valley, South Yorkshire . The research will combine field surveying , soil sampling , laborator...

Marion Pfeifer, Professor in Forest Landscape Restoration at Newcastle University, is recruiting two fully funded PhD students for the ERC Advanced Investigator Grant project TIF-CER: From Forests to Fields to Sustainable Rural Landscapes: A Multiscale Framework for Quantifying Biodiversity and Climate Interrelationships . The two PhD projects are based in the TROPS lab at Newcastle University and focus on: - Mechanisms driving water use in tree-based agricultural systems - Wildlife connectivity...

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...

Universitat de Lleida is advertising a PhD position focused on reducing nitrogen pollution in double-cropping farming systems. The project combines on-farm trials and crop/soil measurements, including soybean + fertigation with pig slurry, nitrate leaching, N2O emissions, and ammonia volatilization. A key modelling component is parameterizing the STICS crop model for double-cropping systems. Ideal applicants should have a Master's degree (300 ECTS) with a 7.0/10 average in Agriculture, Soil Scie...

PhD opportunity at Heriot-Watt University (School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society) within the NERC-funded ECOWILD Centre for Doctoral Training. The project, Tracking Ecosystem Recovery and Pollution Risks in Restored Saltmarshes , focuses on saltmarsh restoration , ecosystem recovery , microplastics , ecotoxicology , environmental chemistry , ecology , microbiology , and molecular biology . It will investigate multiple stressors in restored coastal saltmarshes, including microp...