PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Climate Science in Australia

This Research Fellow position sits within the Monash Remote Food Systems program and is based in Darwin, Northern Territory, with close links to the Menzies School of Health Research nutrition program. The role focuses on research addressing food security in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, combining program evaluation, collaborative case study work, and community-led evidence generation. The successful researcher will lead the co-design and delivery of an evaluation of ...

Masters project opportunity in coral eDNA and marine conservation with a team led by Dr. Kate Marie Quigley. The project involves aquarium heat-stress and eDNA experiments at the Minderoo Exmouth Research Laboratory and field sampling at Ningaloo Reef . This is a student project for an eligible University of Western Australia Masters program (or students with confirmed enrolment for an upcoming intake). The post asks interested students to send a CV and a one-page cover letter by email. Research...

University of Technology Sydney is advertising a Research Associate (Ecological Remote Sensing) within the School of Life Sciences, based at the Broadway campus in Sydney, Australia, with hybrid working arrangements. The role sits on an ARC Discovery Project titled Tracking phenology changes linked to climate change and biodiversity loss . The successful candidate will work under the supervision of EM Professor Alfredo Huete and will lead the project’s remote-sensing component. Research themes i...

Research Degree Opportunity at the University of Melbourne for a PhD project titled Climate, Place and Child Health: Understanding Environmental Exposures from Pregnancy Through Childhood . This project examines how climate-related and environmental exposures across homes, schools, and neighbourhoods shape child health and development . The research will draw on large-scale longitudinal cohort studies , linked population data , geospatial datasets , and environmental monitoring systems to genera...

University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia is advertising a 2-year Research Associate position in groundwater recharge modelling within the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship project “Caves and their stalagmites: linking climate to groundwater recharge” . The project sits at the intersection of Earth Science , Environmental Science , and Geology , with a strong focus on karst hydrology , climate change , wildfire impacts , and environmental change . The successful appli...

PhD scholarship opportunity at Edith Cowan University (ECU), based at Joondalup Campus in Western Australia. The project is focused on climate change, injury prevention, public health, and organisational resilience, with a specific emphasis on how outdoor activity organisations prepare for and adapt to climate-related health and injury risks. This is a fully funded PhD scholarship and is suitable for applicants with backgrounds in public health, injury prevention, sport and recreation, environme...

PhD opportunity at the University of Technology Sydney in Interactions of Plant Diversity and Climate on Ecosystem Phenology and Resilience . This project sits at the intersection of plant biology , environmental science , ecology , geography , remote sensing , and climate change . It will investigate how climate and plant diversity jointly shape vegetation phenology—the timing of plant life cycle events—and how these changes affect ecosystem resilience across Australia. The research will combin...

Call for Fellowship application: University of Melbourne Fellowship 2027 . This opportunity is part of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowships Scheme and is aimed at outstanding mid-career researchers who want to lead innovative research with global impact. Research areas mentioned in the post include Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Medicine, Public Health, Climate Science, Environmental Research, Agriculture, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biotechnolog...