Dear colleagues,

The Meng Research Group (https://olivmeng.github.io/) in the Department of Civil Engineering at Purdue University is seeking one or two PhD students to join in the Fall of 2026. Successful candidates would explore physics of the cryosphere in a warming climate, in particular, ice sheets and sea ice interactions with the ocean. Through the interdisciplinary lens of porous media flows, granular mechanics, and geoscience, the Meng Research Group aims to bridge pore/grain-scale physics with observations of Earth’s surface processes by integrating hydraulic flume experiments, computational modeling, and remote observations.
Please contact Yue (Olivia) Meng (meng188@purdue.edu < https://engineering.purdue.edu/CCE/People/ptProfile?resource_id=312605>) directly if interested in learning more about these opportunities. The PhD application process and requirements can be found here. The deadline for PhD application is December 1, 2025.

Best Regards,

Yue (Olivia) Meng [she/her]
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
https://olivmeng.github.io/

Dear colleagues,

The Hydroclimate–Society Lab at the University of Manitoba (Canada) is inviting applications for three Ph.D. positions starting in Fall 2026 (September). Our research integrates geospatial data science, Earth observation, climate forecast, and AI/ML to understand and address the impacts of climate extremes on hazards, agriculture, and society.

🔍 Research areas include:
Climate forecasts and SWOT satellite data for water management
Socio-environmental impacts of extreme heat and wildfires
Climate data-driven hazard footprints and resilience metrics
Crop yield monitoring and forecasting using Earth Observation
Seamless sub-seasonal to decadal prediction of crop productivity

💡 What we offer:
Competitive stipend and full tuition coverage (4 years)
Access to advanced computing resources and research environment
Opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration
Professional development (conferences, workshops, leadership training, mentoring)

📄 For details, please see the job posting (also attached)
🗓️ Priority deadline: December 15, 2025 (applications reviewed on a rolling basis until filled).
👉 Interested candidates should complete the 2026F-GRA-Research Interest Form.

Best regards,

Donghoon Lee, Ph.D.
Tier-2 Canada Research Chair
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
Price Faculty of Engineering
University of Manitoba

مقاله جدیدمون در موضوع مدل سازی هیدرولوژیکی و اثرات تغییر اقلیم و آبیاری برروی خشک شدن دریاچه های تشک-بختگان استان فارس

Climate change and intensified irrigation as drivers of water imbalance in a large dry basin with two vanishing lakes in Iran

(Open Access) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10668-025-06867-0

https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/3279/Denoscription/2


PhD Researcher (f/m/x) “Urban water demand peaks and water saving behavior under droughts, heatwaves, and compound events”

Dear all,
We are pleased to announce three PhD positionswithin the Navigate working group, led by Dr. Taís Maria Nunes Carvalho and Dr. Christian Klassert, at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany.
The positions focus on combining data analytics, machine learning, and modeling to investigate how urban and rural areas can adapt their water supply systems to climate extremes, population growth, and competing water demands.
We encourage applications from candidates with backgrounds in:
Environmental or water-related sciences
Earth system sciences
Computational social sciences
Econometrics
Related interdisciplinary fields
📍 Location: Leipzig, Germany 📅 Application deadline: 26 November 2025
Position 1: https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/3281/Denoscription/2
Position 2:  https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/3280/Denoscription/2
Position 3: https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/3279/Denoscription/2
For any questions regarding the positions, please contact the group leaders:
📧 Dr. Christian Klassert: christian.klassert@ufz.de
📧 Dr. Taís Maria Nunes Carvalho: tais-maria.nunes-carvalho@ufz.de

Best regards,
Mariana de Brito

### 2 PhD positions Technische Universität Dresden and Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) ###

Dear colleagues,
 
we would like to draw your attention to two open PhD / researcher positions within the DFG-funded project HydroSIGNS. The project is a joint collaboration between the Department of Catchment Hydrology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ and the Institute of Groundwater Management at the TU Dresden.
 
HydroSIGNS investigates how resilient hydrological systems across the globe are to climatic changes and extreme events. By linking hydrometric and isotope-based event signatures, the project aims to identify robust indicators of functional resilience across spatial scales.
 
The official job denoscriptions are attached and can also be found here:
 
UFZ position: https://lnkd.in/dHBAP84S
 
TU Dresden position: https://lnkd.in/djnBKKhr
 
Please feel free to share these announcements within your networks or with potentially interested candidates.
 
Best regards,
Andreas Hartmann & Larisa Tarasova

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce an opening for a research position focusing on floodplain hydrology and restoration based at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Magdeburg (DE). The project investigates practical options to increase water retention in floodplain landscapes with the goal of stabilising groundwater levels under changing climatic conditions.

Full details and application instructions at: https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/3292/Denoscription/2
We would be grateful if you could circulate this announcement within your networks.
Best regards,

Marlene Dordoni

Open PhD student position! Are you interested in PhD research in Water Resources Management? Do you like catchment modelling including water quality? Would you like to study about water retention in catchments, in particular wetlands (Moor)? Are you curious and ambitious? Look here:



https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/8118/

Exciting Opportunity at GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung

💼 PhD Position: Hydrological model development for geodetic applications

🔬 In this role, you will advance a numerical model of the terrestrial water cycle to meet the high-precision requirements of geodetic applications, helping to improve global studies of mass variations and Earth rotation.

You will conduct a broad set of hydrological model experiments driven by different atmospheric reanalyzes, refine process representations to better capture land-water storage variability, and assess model skill using geodetic observations.

Your work will include sensitivity analyses, uncertainty assessments, and the presentation and publication of your findings, contributing to a deeper understanding of large-scale mass transport in the Earth system.

👉 Apply now: https://lnkd.in/eSu72E6J

Interested in job opportunities in Data Science, Machine Learning, or AI within the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft?
Connect with Helmholtz scientists and explore your career options at our Helmholtz Career Day for Data Science on 26 November.

👉 Register for free now: https://lnkd.in/eR38xXrk

Dear research colleagues,



The denoscription of a PhD call with noscript: "Enhancing Fluid Flow Models of Fractured Chalk Aquifers for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Protection" is available at the following links:

1.https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/enhancing-fluid-flow-models-of-fractured-chalk-aquifers-for-sustainable-energy-and-environmental-protection/?p188102

2.https://yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/keyword/fracture-permeability/



The project is based at the University of Leeds (supervisors: Prof Jared West, Prof. Dave Healy) with Sapienza University (supervisor: Dr. Giacomo Medici) and Denmark Technical University (supervisor: Dr. Mike Welch) as project partners. There will be travel opportunities at Sapienza University in Rome to visit the external supervisor and outcrops.



The goal is accurately predicting how water, pollutants, and energy-critical fluids move through fractured chalk rock formations using innovative numerical approaches.



Best wishes,

Dr. Giacomo Medici

Associate Professor

Sapienza University of Rome

Research Scientist for Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Interactions under Climate Extremes (f/m/x)

Are you interested in working at the interface of soil, vegetation and atmosphere interactions? We offer you a position with the opportunity to collaborate in an interdisciplinary environment and to link field data, remote sensing and process-based or machine learning models.

As a Research Scientist for Soil–Vegetation–Atmosphere Interactions under Climate Extremes (f/m/x) you can develop and apply methods to quantify the impacts of extreme events. Of course we offer competent support for international colleagues arriving at the UFZ as well as a wide range of options for balancing work and care responsibilities through our family office. We look forward to meeting you!

👉 More information https://lnkd.in/ei5sQQNW

Enhanced crop calibration for SWAT+: evaluating water, sediment and nutrient impacts across ten European catchments



https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364815225004785

Enhanced crop calibration for SWAT+: evaluating water, sediment and nutrient impacts across ten European catchments

#PhD position in snow hydrology

Cold Regions Hydrology Laboratory – Laval University, Quebec City, Canada
In collaboration with Dr. Giulia Mazzotti (INRAE-Grenoble, France)

The project focuses on improving how snow in forests is represented in Canadian models, with a mix of fieldwork, modelling, and a short research stay in Grenoble.

🔗 More details here:
HydroNord lab: https://hydronord.ca/en

Position denoscription (PDF): https://lnkd.in/enMSd3bj
If you’re passionate about snow, forests, and hydrology, take a look and feel free to share with anyone who might be interested.

#hydrology #snowhydrology #PhDposition #LavalUniversity #gradschool #coldregions

PhD opportunity 🎉

Climate change is driving more frequent and intense extreme rainfall events, creating serious challenges for flood risk management across the UK. Current rainfall datasets are not fit for purpose: radar estimates can be inaccurate, and rain gauge networks, while reliable, are too sparse to capture highly localised storms. Reliable, high-resolution rainfall data is urgently needed to improve flood prediction, climate adaptation, and infrastructure resilience.

This project will tackle that challenge by developing a new blended UK precipitation dataset at high temporal (15-minute) and spatial resolution. The student will integrate data from multiple sources—including tipping bucket rain gauges, weather radar, and satellites—using robust coding and data science techniques. A comprehensive quality control framework will be built to identify and correct errors, apply bias adjustments, and assess data quality. State-of-the-art multisource blending methods will then be applied (e.g. kriging, probabilistic merging, machine learning) to combine datasets and preserve extremes. Uncertainty will be quantified explicitly, with outputs designed to inform both researchers and practitioners. The resulting dataset, open-access and user-focused, will directly support advanced flood risk modelling, hydrological predictions, and adaptation planning.

As the student, you will gain expertise in climate extremes, data science, and hydrology, working within Newcastle University’s Water and Climate Research Group and collaborating with partners such as the Environment Agency and the Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI). Your work will provide a critical resource for climate resilience, with direct pathways to impact in policy, industry, and society.

more info available here: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/phd-studentship-nerc-resilient-flood-futures-flood-cdt-a-sub-hourly-quality-controlled-blended-uk-precipitation-dataset-to-understand-uncertainty-in-flood-predictions/?p189619

Job Alert Friday! 🚀

Exciting Opportunity at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)

💼 PhD student for somatic genetics in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

🔬 In this role, you will employ targeted deep sequencing or single-cell–resolved detection of mosaic mutations with low allele frequency in human post-mortem tissue and apply advanced computational and statistical analysis methods to gain deeper insights into the role of genetic mosaics in neurodegeneration.

A further aim of this project is the development of in vitro models for somatic mutations for functional studies, as well as the design of diagnostic and data-driven approaches for ante-mortem detection of, and potential testing of therapeutic interventions against, somatic mutations in neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS.

👉 Apply now: https://lnkd.in/eQbbK2u2

دوستان به نظر میاد STOTEN دیگه معتبر نیست و از اکتبر ٢٠٢۴ به این طرف توسط WOS تعلیق شده بود
الان دیگه کلا حذفش کردن و از اکتبر ٢٠٢۴ مقالاتشو توی دیتابیس نمیاره

Dear colleagues,
Please note that Science of The Total Environment (STOTEN) journal - in which some of us (including me) published in the past - has been removed from the WOS database for failing to maintain the editorial quality over time. As a result, any content published by the journal after Volume 954 (2024) is not currently indexed, and any existing gaps in content will not be backfilled.

2026

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