PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Spatial Analysis in Italy

This appointment is hosted by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL), a multidisciplinary research environment focused on ocean, estuarine, riverine, and watershed systems in support of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Department of Defense. The project centers on optimizing the Corps Shoaling Analysis Tool (CSAT), a geospatial application that uses a large archive of hydrographic surveys to quantify sediment accumulation acros...

This postdoctoral position is part of ROUTES – Reimagining Open Schoolyards and Urban Streets as Equitable Spaces , a Horizon Europe / New European Bauhaus project coordinated by Delft University of Technology . The project explores how transforming schoolyards and school streets into shared, equitable spaces can strengthen safety, social cohesion, active mobility, inclusivity, and well-being in neighborhood communities across Europe. The postdoc will join the Department of Sustainable Design En...

The Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeolithic Archaeology to join the ERC-funded HOME: Palaeolithic Shelters in East-Central Europe project, led by Dr Wei Chu . The postdoctoral researcher will be based in the Department of World Archaeology and will work on the identification and investigation of Palaeolithic shelters in the Carpathian region . The project focuses on how and why Palaeolithic groups used sheltered locations and how these ...

[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 Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park is seeking a postdoctoral associate to conduct research at the intersection of environmental economics, ecology, and decision science. The researcher will contribute to projects focused on invasive species management, biosecurity, and environmental decision support. Work will include refining and parameterizing a decision-support tool for rapid-response decisions following new invasive species incur...

The LEGASYS Lab at Utah State University is recruiting motivated MS and PhD students for a UtahView-funded graduate research project on historical land-use and landscape changes across Utah. The project brings together remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) . Students will work with historical aerial photography and satellite imagery, applying geospatial programming and spatial analysis to investigate how landscapes have changed over ...

The University of the Aegean’s Research Unit is recruiting a researcher for the CircHive Horizon Europe case study on developing a biodiversity strategy for Mytilene and Lesvos Island, Greece. The work combines biodiversity data collection, ecological fieldwork, and geospatial analysis to support biodiversity strategies and natural capital accounting. The selected researcher will collect and process biodiversity and environmental data from study sites on Lesvos, with a strong focus on coastal an...

This ORISE opportunity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention places a participant in the Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch of the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Atlanta, Georgia. The project focuses on CDC’s suite of online GIS and mapping tools for chronic disease surveillance, including the Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke , Local Trends Dashboard , Map Widget , Quick Maps , Map ...

This fellowship places a student within the U.S. Geological Survey’s Conventional Geothermal Assessments Task, part of the Energy Resources Program and affiliated with the Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center. The work is based in a multidisciplinary USGS research environment connected to offices in multiple western U.S. locations, with the center headquartered at Moffett Field, California. The project focuses on compiling and analyzing spatial datasets to support mapping and...