Current Postgraduate Opportunities
Applications are invited for studentships with various funding opportunities pending: NERC/ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, ESRC/RIBEN, Infoterra Ltd, Scottish Heritage, ICSS sponsored (four year) and School of Geography studentship from the following list of titles (all funding pending).
For more details about the projects please see below and for information regarding making an application, see 'How to apply' or email Julie Drewitt for more information.
Deadline for all applications: 31st March 2010
| Topic: | Supervisor/s: | Funding body: | More details: |
10 ESRC CASE studentships |
Various | ESRC/RIBEN | Click here for PDF |
The history of wildfire in Britain: the role of humans and climate. |
Dr Paul Hughes and Prof. Mary Edwards | School | Click here for PDF |
Resilience management of ecological services in National Parks: developing a new evolutionary approach. |
Prof. J.A. Dearing (contact), Prof. T.P. Dawson, Prof. M.E. Edwards, Mr C. Hill, Dr P. Langdon, Prof. D. A. Sear | School | Click here for PDF |
Reconstructing high resolution hydrological data from lake sediments. |
Prof. J. A. Dearing (contact), Dr R.C. Chiverrell | LEVERHULME | Click here for PDF |
Palaeoecological perspectives on the role of arctic lakes in the carbon cycle. |
Prof. Mary Edwards, Dr Pete Langdon | School | Click here for PDF |
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, climate change and Lake Settlement in SW Scotland. |
Prof. Tony Brown, Dr Anne Crone (AOC Ltd.) | NERC/Scottish heritage | Click here for PDF |
Visualising and understanding the limitations of radiative transfer models used for atmospheric correction of remotely sensed data in the UK. |
Prof. E. J. Milton | ICSS/GEOG | Click here for PDF |
Integrating morphodynamics into flood inundation models for vulnerability assessments of populations living along large monsoonal rivers. |
Prof. David Sear | School | Click here for PDF |
Characterization of vegetation phenology from Earth observation data |
Supervisors - Dr. Jadu Dash, Dr Thomas Lankester (Infoterra Ltd) and Prof. Peter Atkinson |
Infoterra Ltd and School | Click here for PDF |
Spatiotemporal assessment of Sphagnum CO2 exchange in a Sphagnum-dominated peatland using a combined remote sensing and ecohydrological approach |
Dr Angela Harris and Prof E. J. Milton | School | Click here for PDF |
Understanding uncertainty in reflectance measurements from space: an automated tramway spectroradiometer for data collection in remote sensing |
Prof. E. J. Milton | School | Click here for PDF |
Impact of climate change on food security in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. |
Dr Jadu Dash and Prof. Terry Dawson | School | Click here for PDF |
An investigation of subglacial process using as wireless subglacial probe. |
Prof. Jane Hart | School | Click here for PDF |
Debris flow prediction models: integrating data from an environmental sensor network. |
Prof. Jane Hart | Complexity studentship (4 years) | Click here for PDF |
Retail Pop24/7: modeling space-time specific population surfaces for use in the retail sector |
Prof Dave Martin and Ms Samantha Cockings | ESRC/RIBEN | Click here for PDF |
Flooding Pop24/7: modeling space-time specific population surfaces for use in flood management and modelling |
Ms Samantha Cockings and Prof Dave Martin | School + partner in Environmental Management/Modelling | Click here for PDF |
Sediment inputs and accumulation in chalk stream gravels: ecological implications. |
Prof. David sear | Click here for PDF | |
Yardang pattern formation. |
Dr Jo Nield and Prof. Paul Carling | Complexity Studentship | Click here for PDF |
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