PhD Opportunities in Hydrology in United Kingdom

The University of Edinburgh is offering a PhD opportunity supervised by Professor Lindsay Beevers and Encarni Medina Lopez on future hydrological extremes in a changing climate . The project will quantify how floods and droughts may change under future climate change using the Reference Observatory of Basins for International hydrological climate change detection (ROBIN), a global network of near-natural catchments, together with global multi-model climate projections such as ISIMIP. It will inv...

PhD opportunity on AI and UK water security at the University of Birmingham , advertised by Professor Simon Gosling with collaborators Shasha Han (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham), Andrew Hartley (Met Office), and Helen Baron (UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology). The project sits at the interface of Computer Science and Environmental Science , with strong links to Geography , Earth Science , hydrology, drought risk, and climate-related water secur...

Funded PhD opportunity at Newcastle University focused on microplastics , heavy metals , river and estuary pollution , and coastal processes . The project investigates how microplastics transport heavy metals through rivers and estuaries, building on work related to the recent River Tyne nurdle spill . The research combines fieldwork , laboratory experiments , and hydrodynamic modelling to understand the role of plastics in moving legacy contamination through aquatic systems. This is a strong fi...

PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds through YES•DTN . This project, YES-27-G-02: Building Climate-Resilient Landscapes: Ecohydrological Recovery of Peat and Organo-Mineral Soils , focuses on how peat and organo-mineral soils recover after nature-based restoration and what that recovery means for resilience to climate extremes . The research is closely aligned with ecohydrology , peatlands , moorland restoration , and nature-based solutions , with collaboration involving Bridestones Rewild...

Bath Engineering & Design Studentships at the University of Bath are offering a PhD project on machine learning for early warning of debris screen blockage in urban rivers . The project sits in the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering and is led by Prof Thomas Kjeldsen . This research aims to develop new methods for forecasting debris and trash screen blockages in urban rivers, moving from reactive maintenance to proactive flood risk management. The project combines artificial intellig...

CWBE Centre of Excellence in Water-Based Early-Warning Systems for Health Protection is advertising a PhD opportunity at the University of Bath focused on GPU-accelerated modelling of catchment-scale water management. The project will explore how neural physics, GPU computing, and AI can be combined to build a next-generation digital twin of the Cam & Wellow catchment, the location of CWBE living labs. The research aims to simulate water flow and pollutant transport faster than traditional appro...

PhD opportunity at Cranfield University in the United Kingdom on predicting acid sulfate soils for safer restoration and land management. The project sits at the intersection of Earth Science , Environmental Science , Geography , Statistics , and Computer Science , with strong emphasis on soil science , GIS , predictive mapping , machine learning , and soil biogeochemistry . The research investigates how reliably existing soil information predicts acid sulfate soil occurrence in the UK, and whet...

Funded PhD opportunity at Cranfield University in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, focused on hidden acid sulfate soils , soil science , predictive mapping , GIS , machine learning , and environmental restoration . The project will investigate how reliably existing soil information can predict acid sulfate soil occurrence across the UK, and whether land management history improves predictions of acidification hazards. Acid sulfate soils can generate sulfuric acid and release metal...

PhD opportunity at the University of Sheffield within the NERC-funded ECOSOLUTIONS Doctoral Focal Award . This project focuses on evaluating contaminant dynamics and mitigation solutions in urban rainwater harvesting systems . The research is interdisciplinary and combines environmental engineering , chemical contamination , microbial water quality , hydrology , pollution , and predictive modelling . You will investigate how atmospheric deposition, roof materials, and urban debris affect rainwat...