PhD Opportunities in Satellite Geodesy, Remote Sensing, AI/ML, and Earth Surface Dynamics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in United States

Kostas Andreadis, Associate Professor, is sharing a new research direction at the University of Virginia in the Department of Environmental Sciences . He will join UVA in Fall 2027 as the Commonwealth Associate Professor of AI and Environmental Sciences . The group will work at the intersection of AI and computational hydrology , using satellite observations and machine learning to understand and predict how water moves through the Earth system. Research directions mentioned include scientific m...

Elise Jakoby Laugier is recruiting an MS or PhD student to join the LEGASYS Lab at Utah State University in research spanning remote sensing, GIS, and geospatial artificial intelligence . The student will contribute to a UtahView-funded project investigating historical land-use and landscape change in Utah. The research will draw on historical aerial photography and satellite imagery, combining geospatial programming with applied remote sensing methods. Potential research activities include mach...

Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) shared a PhD opportunity in the Mountain Hydrology Research Group at the University of Wyoming for an NSF-funded project on melt dynamics in mountain snowpacks . The project focuses on liquid water flow through snow , hillslope runoff processes , and modelling hillslope-scale infiltration and runoff . There is also scope to include fieldwork and/or remote sensing , depending on the successful candidate’s interests. Applicants are welcomed from backgrounds such ...

🚨 Job alert: Postdoctoral Associate in Physical Oceanography at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science. This postdoc works across two major AMOC observing programmes: RAPID-MOCHA and OSNAP. The research is centered on Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), ocean observing, mooring observations, satellite altimetry, ocean models, and machine learning. The research direction is flexible and can be shaped around the candidate’s interests and ...

University of Colorado Boulder’s Department of Computer Science is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate in the Geospatial and Environmental Machine Learning (GEM) Lab . This postdoc sits at the intersection of neural fields , Earth observation , and geospatial machine learning , with a research agenda centered on building continuous, queryable, uncertainty-aware representations of the planet that can update as new data arrives. The role includes developing new neural field models and studying scaling...