Geospatial Research Institute PhD Scholarship

[For eligible students, the studentship covers home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship at the University of Exeter focuses on how Amazon forest wildfire affects soil carbon cycling, with a particular emphasis on soil respiration, soil properties, and pyrogenic carbon (charcoal) in southern Amazonian soils. The project also explores how these field and experimental results can be used to improve the JULES land surface model , linking tropical soil processes with c...

The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Space invites applications for a three-year, full-time PhD scholarship on physics-informed machine learning for Greenland’s firn tipping point. The position is based at the Cryosphere Research Group, Geodesy and Earth Observation Division, DTU Space, in Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark. The project will investigate when Greenland’s porous near-surface firn layer may lose its capacity to store meltwater and what this could mean for sea-level rise. The PhD researcher ...

[Annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate currently £21,805 per year plus £1,000 per year enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This 4-year PhD project at The University of Manchester focuses on the use of geospatial foundation models to improve the monitoring of smallholder agricultural systems from satellite data. The work sits at the intersection of Earth Observation , remote sensing , and agricultural mapping, with an emphasis on u...

[For eligible students, home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship investigates how extreme weather risks may evolve in a post-net zero climate, with a focus on the UK. The project examines the future behaviour of extratropical cyclones, including damaging winds and associated flooding, and asks how these hazards can be translated into climate-risk assessment frameworks. The student will work with simulations from the Zero Emissions Commitment Model Intercomparison ...

Applications are open for the 2027 CENTA PhD studentships, with projects across environmental science, Earth systems, climate, biodiversity, water, pollution, environmental modelling, data science, and Earth observation. The post highlights two projects involving Heiko Balzter at the University of Leicester, focused on Earth observation, environmental change, and using data and modelling to understand a changing environment. These are project-based PhD opportunities open to UK and international ...