There are a wide range of PhD studentships available, both based at the University of Southampton and National Oceanography Centre Southampton (listed below) and at the NEXUSS host institutions. For projects at the other host institutions, see here.
Aptamer-based biosensors for Autonomous Systems
- Supervisors: Jon McQuillan (lead, NOC), Martin Arundell (NOC), Catalyn Balan (NOC), Xize Niu (UoS)
- Institution: National Oceanography Centre Southampton
Autonomous oceanic primary production through novel chlorophyll fluorometry
- Supervisors: Mark Moore (lead, UoS), Matt Mowlem (NOC), Tom Bibby (UoS), Anna Hickman (UoS), Kevin Oxborough (Chelsea Technologies Group)
- Institution: Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton
- Industry links: Chelsea Technologies Group
Autonomous multi-scaled exploration under ice
- Supervisors: Jon Downes (lead, Engineering & the Environment, UoS), Henry Ruhl, Maaten Furlong (NOC), Eric Rogers (Electronics & Computer Science, UoS).
- Institution: Fluid Structure Interactions Group, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment
Autonomous Surface Ocean Carbon observations
- Supervisors: Matt Mowlem (lead, NOC), Socratis Loucaides (NOC), Dorothee Bakker (UEA), Andy Watson (Exeter)
- Institution: Ocean Technology and Engineering, National Oceanography Centre Southampton
Autonomous Underwater Platforms for measuring Ocean Turbulence
- Supervisors: Alberto Naveira Garabato (lead, UoS), Eleanor Frajka-Williams (UoS), Rob Hall (UEA), Kurt Polzin (WHOI)
- Institution: Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton
- CASE support: Rockland Scientific Instruments
Computer vision and machine learning for oceanographic research
- Supervisors: Daniel Jones (NOC), Henry Ruhl (NOC), Sasan Mahmood (UoS), Brian J Bett (NOC)
- Institution: National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
A coupled CFD and observational approach to improve measurements of ocean turbulence from gliders
- Supervisors: Matt Palmer (lead, NOC), Dr Ben Moat (NOC), Dr Rob Hall (UEA) and Prof. Rolf Lueck (CASE, Rockland Scientific & University of Victoria, BC, Canada
- Institution: University of East Anglia (hosted at National Oceanography Centre Liverpool)
- CASE support: Rockland Scientific
Design and Control of Bio-inspired Pulsed-jet Underwater Vehicles with augmented maneuverability
- Supervisors: Francesco Giorgio-Serchi (lead, UoS), Alberto Naveira Garabato (UoS), Gabriel D. Weymouth (UoS), David M. Lane (HWU)
- Institution: National Oceanography Centre Southampton and Heriot Watt University
Droplet-microfluidic-based chemical sensors for rapid measurement on autonomous ocean profiling vehicles
- Supervisors: Xize Niu (lead, UoS), Sinhue Torres-Valdes (NOC), Alexander Beaton (NOC)
- Institution: Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton
Microdrifters for Ocean Currents
- Supervisors: Eleanor Frajka-Williams (lead, UoS), Christopher Cardwell (NOC), Alberto Naveira-Garabato (UoS), Liz Bagshaw (Cardiff U.) and Andras Sobester (UoS)
- Institution: Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton and National Oceanography Centre Southampton
- CASE support: Planet Ocean Ltd
Mission-aware smart payloads for real-time optimisation of data collected using marine autonomous systems
- Supervisors: Blair Thornton (lead, Engineering & the Environment, UoS), Leigh Marsh (Ocean & Earth Science, UoS), Maaten Furlong (NOC), Alexander Phillips (NOC), Daniel Jones (NOC)
- Institution: Fluid Structure Interaction Group, University of Southampton
Observing the biological carbon pump with autonomous underwater vehicles.
- Supervisors: Stephanie Henson (lead, NOC), Anna Hickman (UoS), Eleanor Frajka-Williams (UoS), Jan Kaiser (UEA), Matthew Palmer (NOC)
- Institution: Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems, National Oceanography Centre Southampton
Sensing the marine nitrogen cycle: Autonomous sampler to capture microbial ecosystem services
- Supervisors: Julie Robidart (lead, NOC), Phyllis Lam (UoS), Keith Davidson (SAMS)
- Institution: National Oceanography Centre Southampton
Smart coast: real time assessment of coastal bio-dynamics using UAV/AUVs
- Supervisors: Martin Solan (lead, Ocean and Earth Science, UoS), Julian Leyland (Geography & the Environment, UoS), Charlie Thompson (Ocean and Earth Science, UoS), Sasan Mahmoodi (Electronics & Computer Science, UoS), John Howe (SAMS)
- Institution: Ocean and Earth Science, UoS
In situ carbonate chemistry sensors for autonomous high resolution measurements
- Supervisors: Socratis Loucaides (lead, NOC), Matt Mowlem (NOC), Nick Bates (Ocean & Earth Science, UoS)
- Institution: Ocean Technology and Engineering, National Oceanography Centre Southampton