Master’s Opportunities in Remote Sensing in Portugal

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...

This fully funded master’s opportunity is based in the Remote Sensing & AI Lab within the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria in Canada. The research focuses on mapping wildfire severity by combining satellite time-series data with LiDAR forest-structure data. The project offers training and research experience in remote sensing, geospatial analysis, GIS, wildfire science, environmental monitoring, and artificial intelligence. Students will investigate how Earth-observation dat...

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) offers a research opportunity in advanced engineering and physical science applications for coastal environments. CHL brings together a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and support personnel working in internationally known facilities focused on coastal, estuarine, riverine, and watershed systems. The project centers on solving complex water-resource and navigation challenges across hy...

Funded Master's and PhD research opportunity in flood risk and engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. The project focuses on compound flooding, including interactions among debris, structures and waves, and the assessment of flood risk. Students will use numerical modelling, machine learning and remote sensing to investigate complex flood hazards and their consequences. The research is based in the COMPOUND Flood Lab within the Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environment...

Simon Fraser University in Canada is offering fully funded MSc and PhD positions in remote sensing through the Synthetic Aperture Radar Laboratory in the Faculty of Applied Sciences. The research focuses on synthetic aperture radar, remote sensing, satellite data, programming, and radar-sensor research. Successful students may contribute to publishable research involving radar observations, satellite-data processing, and computational methods. Applicants should have a background in remote sensin...

The Borderlands Research Institute at Sul Ross State University is seeking a graduate research assistant for a PhD or two Master’s positions focused on cinnamon teal movement ecology. The project will track approximately 100 cinnamon teal using GSM-GPS units after capture at Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge in southern Nevada, a major bottleneck in the interior Pacific Flyway. Research objectives include estimating migration strategies and time spent at Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge, li...

University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences is offering a GeoSciences (Individual Project - Taught Pathway) MScR for full-time, on-campus study starting in September 2027 . This is a Masters by Research programme designed for students who want to develop an independent research project in Earth Science , Environmental Science , Geography , Geology , Geophysics , and related GeoSciences areas. Research themes mentioned include atmospheric and environmental sciences, geology and geophysics, huma...

New Master of Science in Forestry (MScF) opportunity at the University of New Brunswick in Canada . The project is titled High-throughput phenotyping black spruce stress resilience and is co-supervised by Dr. Funda Ogut (Canadian Forest Services) and Dr. Christopher Wong (ForEM). The research focuses on how climate change-driven drought and spruce budworm disturbances affect forest health and productivity, with an emphasis on improving resilience in black spruce populations. The successful candi...

Fully funded PhD and Master's positions are available in Coastal Engineering at the University of South Alabama , within the Coastal Hazards and Dynamics Group in the Department of Civil, Coastal, and Environmental Engineering. The research focus is on coastal hazards , coastal dynamics , coastal processes , remote sensing , and numerical modeling . This opportunity is a strong fit for students interested in engineering and geosciences applications to shoreline change, hazard assessment, and coa...