I am currently looking for outstanding PhD candidates, postdocs, and experienced engineers to conduct groundbreaking research in the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) at the DLR Microwaves and Radar Institute and contribute to projects funded by the European Research Council (ERC), the European Space Agency - ESA, and the German industry.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Development of a distributed drone-based SAR demonstrator (including experiments);
- Bi- and multi-static spaceborne-airborne SAR concepts (also exploiting transmitters of opportunities);
- Processing of SAR data acquired by clusters of small satellites for interferometry and tomography.

If you are interested to apply or find out more, feel free to get in touch with me (michelangelo.villano@dlr.de).

Please inform people you know who might be interested or reshare this post with your connections by clicking on “Repost” below.

Branches of Environmental Science

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary field that integrates physical, biological, and social sciences to study and address environmental issues. The main branches include:

1. Ecology: Studies the relationships between organisms and their environment, focusing on ecosystems' balance and biodiversity.

2. Atmospheric Science: Examines the atmosphere's composition and processes, including weather, climate, and air pollution.

3. Geoscience: Focuses on Earth's physical structure, including soil, rocks, and water systems.

4. Environmental Chemistry: Explores chemical processes and pollutants in natural systems.

5. Environmental Biology: Studies the impact of human activities on plants, animals, and microorganisms.

6. Environmental Engineering: Develops technologies and solutions for mitigating pollution and managing resources sustainably.

7. Social and Cultural Aspects: Examines the human dimensions of environmental issues, including policy, economics, and ethics.

🌱🔬We are hiring: Join us for a PhD study in biocontrol and plant-microbe interactions 🌱🔬
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to develop new microbe-based biocontrol methods against key plant pathogens.
Your background is within microbiology, molecular microbiology or in plant science, and you have an interest in plant-microbe interactions and the use of plant-beneficial microbes as solutions in sustainable agriculture🌾

The project is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark in the Green Research theme.

You can see more here:
https://lnkd.in/d_Gfg5YT (English link)

The Fidan Ecosystems Informatics Lab for Decision-making (FEILD), led by Assistant Professor Emine Fidan, invites applications for a PhD position in Biosystems Engineering at the University of Tennessee. This PhD Student would have the opportunity to work on exciting projects at the intersection of flooding, water quality, and data science. 

Benefits included within this assistantship:
Competitive salary (provided 12 months of the year)
Tuition waiver
Course fees paid 
Health insurance
If you are interested, please send an email to efidan@utk.edu outlining your research interests and qualifications. Within the email, include your trannoscript, resume/CV, and contact information for a professional reference. 

Dear all,

My lab at New Mexico Tech is recruiting a 3-year postdoctoral researcher to work on a project in collaboration with Dr. Dalei Hao at the DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Start date is flexible, early 2025 is preferred.

Objective of the project is to improve large-scale snow simulations in Earth System Models by i) investigating the spatial variability of snow cover over mountains / complex terrain regions, ii) investigating how snow grain shape and albedo change with snow aging, and iii) studying the space-time variability of snow droughts.

The candidate should be interested in the physical processes related to hydrology, cryosphere, and climate science. A strong quantitative background in numerical methods, statistics, and programming is desired. Previous experience working with Earth System Models is highly welcome.

Interested candidates should contact me (enrico.zorzetto@nmt.edu) to arrange a virtual interview and learn more about the research project. In your email, please include i) your CV, ii) a cover letter describing your previous research experience, relevant skills and research interests, and iii) a list of publications and software or data products.

آیا دکتری خواندن و صرف 4 تا 6 سال برای آن ارزش دارد؟ حتی در اروپا میزان پوزیشن دکتری به پوزیشن کاری با مدرک دکتری 1 به 30 می باشد. به این معنی که بعد از اتمام دکتری 1 نفر از 30 نفر موفق به پیدا کردن کاری میشود که مدرک دکتری نیاز است.

دلیل: حقوق دانشجوی دکتری در بهترین شرایط نصف یک شخص با مدرک دکتری می باشد و عملا کار هر دو یکسان می باشد. همچنین با وجود کار یکسان دانشجوی دکتری امکانات رفاهی، بازنشستگی، بیمه و خدمات درمانی و سایر مزایای کارکنان را ندارد و این یک سود برای دانشگاه ها می باشد.

If you have experience in both agroecosystem modeling and processes in agricultural systems, here is an opportunity.

https://lnkd.in/exgZHmuf

Dear all,

we are searching a postgraduate research associate to conduct a doctoral thesis about nitrate sources and denitrification processes in groundwater using isotope techniques.

Please forward this information to interested people.

More details and info on how to apply for the position can be found here:

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/309335

All the best,
Michael

The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) is looking for a hashtag#PhD candidate for the interdisciplinary PhD Cohort SEESAW (Societal and environmental impacts of complex extremes in a changing world). The cohort aims to understand the impacts of hashtag#hydroclimatic extremes with a focus on hashtag#droughts and transitions from drought to floods by combining unique large-scale datasets of hydrometeorological observations, remote sensing, climate simulations and newspaper-based impacts.

Application deadline is 31 January 2025. Place of work will be Leipzig in Germany.

For more information go to https://lnkd.in/eN5WiZ7A

#PhD Opportunity in Soil Hydrology and Groundwater Research (USA)

The Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Memphis is seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our research team. This position offers an opportunity to work on innovative projects in soil hydrology and groundwater hydrology, addressing critical challenges in water resource management, Environment and sustainability.

If you are passionate about advancing your academic career and making meaningful contributions to the field, please email your CV to “mhamza@memphis.edu” at your earliest convenience.

Preferred candidates will have a strong academic background in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Geology or related fields, along with prior experience in hydrological modeling, soil-water interaction, or groundwater flow analysis. Proficiency in programming with tools such as MATLAB or Python is highly desirable.

Dear Climate and AI community!
We are hiring (again 😀) a postdoc to join the Environmental Institute at UVA and work with Prof Chirag Agarwal and myself, on using multimodal AI models and explainable AI to attribute extreme precipitation events! Fascinating stuff!
Link below. Please share with your network!
We are looking for people with solid AI background and experience in working with climate datasets. Early review of applications will start in late February!
https://jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0069112/Postdoctoral-Research-Associate-Explainable-AI-Climate-Extremes%E2%80%A6

Mark Sweeney (University of South Dakota) and I are recruiting a PhD candidate in Ecological Remote Sensing for an NSF grant funded project@ USD Sustainability and Environment and USD Biology. Interested students with the requisite qualifications should contact Mark.Sweeney@usd.edu and Ranjeet.John@usd.edu and send their CVs. Please share! hashtag#phd
hashtag#phdjobs. More details here https://shorturl.at/LCg2x

I am looking for a passionate Master's student to join my research team at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in Fall 2025! The ideal candidate need to have strong analytical skills and a keen interest in experimental research on industrial wastewater treatment. Academic IELTS (7.0) is required unless a prior degree was completed in Canada. Domestic students or those already in Canada are encouraged to contact at sharmeen.hyder@unb.ca.

🚀 PhD Opportunity: Join us at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) for the TRAMPOLINe- MSCA Project (Position DC4) 🌍

We’re seeking a motivated Pre-doctoral Researcher to develop an electrified biotrickling filter (ETB) for nitrogen and sulfur removal.

📍 Location: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) -Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ (Germany), supervision by Benjamin Korth and myself.
🎓 Degree: Leipzig University (Germany)
🤝 Collaboration with Annemiek Ter Heijne at Wageningen University & Research (Netherlands) and Sciospec Scientific Instruments GmbH (Germany).

🗓 Start Date: September/October 2025
📑 Duration: 36 months
⏳ Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

👉 Learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/eB2UtjBd

Transform environmental challenges into opportunities. Join us in great consortium! 🌿

Dear Colleagues,

we are seeking applicants for a PhD opportunity (fully funded) on the following research topic: Coastal sediment dynamics on the North Coast of Northern Ireland at decadal to centennial time scale.

The PhD candidate will be based at the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Ulster University (Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK).



Main supervisor: Dr. Edoardo Grottoli

Joint supervisors: Prof. Andrew Cooper; Prof. Derek Jackson



The application deadline is Monday 3 February 2025 (04:00PM, UK Time) and shortlisted candidates will be interviewed in mid-March.

More information about the PhD project, application procedure and funding can be found at the following link: https://www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/find-a-phd/14-geography-and-environmental-studies/1680968

For any query, please email me at e.gro...@ulster.ac.uk



Please pass to potential candidates.

Kind regards,



Edoardo

Dear Colleagues-

I would like to call your attention to a postdoc opportunity TNC and UPenn just posted - the postdoc would be mentored by Prof. M Mann at UPenn and Dr. N Wolff at TNC.

Sustainability and Conservation Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in partnership with The Nature Conservancy

Application deadline for 2025: Friday, February 14, 2025

Project Area: International research that informs climate adaptation interventions

Adoption of forest-based natural climate solutions is stymied by concerns around the “permanence” or durability of these interventions. Yet forest-based natural climate solutions are also essential for staving off the worst of climate change. Forests face increasing risks as the climate warms, but these risks are not uniform across the landscape. Science-based tools are needed to predict the likelihood and severity of carbon loss, as well as likelihood of system recovery. Such tools can help to target projects towards places that are less likely to be disturbed under future climate conditions, design projects that are more likely to be durable, and establish sufficient compensation mechanisms for any disturbances that do happen (e.g., buffer pool). We are seeking a candidate with expertise in global climate modeling, land use modeling, literature synthesis and/or forest-based carbon accounting to help advance a series of products around durability risks.

Mentor team: Prof. Michael Mann (mmann00@sas.upenn.edu), Dr. Nicholas Wolff (nicholas.wolff@tnc.org)

IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE

Ideal candidates for this fellowship are outstanding, early-career scientists who seek to improve and expand their research skills, while directing their efforts toward problems at the interface of climate, conservation, research, and people. Recognizing that science is best advanced through contributions by individuals of diverse backgrounds, we seek to attract promising researchers from varying backgrounds, races, ethnic groups, and other diverse populations whose life experiences, research experiences, and employment backgrounds will contribute significantly to their research. Applicants must have completed all requirements for their doctorate by the fellowship start date, and their PhD should have been awarded no longer than three years before the application deadline. Fellows are expected to begin their appointment by September 1, 2025.

HOW TO APPLY

Complete applications are due by Friday, February 14, 2025, and must include:

Cover letter (limited to 1 page). Applicants should describe their research experience, interests in research and conservation, long-term career goals, and illustrate how their previous experience strengthens their ability to develop and implement the proposed research.
Research proposal (limited to 2 pages; citations may be on a separate page). Applicants must engage in co-development of a research proposal with a Penn faculty member and a TNC scientist, and proof of co-development will be assessed during proposal review. Teams at TNC and Penn who are available to work with applicants, their contact information, and general research topics of interest are listed above. The proposal should
§ highlight the research question of interest,

§ clearly articulate the research approach and methods,

§ outline the project’s scientific significance, and

§ demonstrate a clear potential for delivering results for The Nature Conservancy’s global priorities.

Curriculum Vitae
The cover letter and research proposal must be standard letter-size page, 1-inch margins, and at least 11 pt font.
The CV, proposal, and personal statement must be combined into one pdf file and emailed to kara.walker@tnc.org by no later than 5 pm ET on February 14, 2025. Please use the subject “Postdoctoral Fellow Application [Your Name]” and name the pdf attachment “YourNameApplication.pdf”.
Three letters of recommendation. One letter must be from the applicant’s thesis advisor and comment specifically on the applicant’s ability to learn from and contribute to a multi-disciplinary and collaborative research environment. The other two letters should be from individuals well acquainted with the applicant’s PhD research.
A joint letter of support with mentoring plan from your proposed Penn and TNC mentors. Mentors should speak to the importance of the applicant’s proposed project to Penn and TNC, the role they will play in jointly mentoring the applicant through the project, and the leadership taken by the applicant in developing the research proposal.
The recommendation and support letters must be on letterhead and emailed directly to kara.walker@tnc.org by no later than 5 pm ET on February 14, 2025.


For general questions, contact:

Dr. Nadine Gruhn, ngruhn@sas.upenn.edu
Dr. Kara Walker, kara.walker@tnc.org

PROGRAM GOALS

This postdoctoral fellowship program aims to bridge the excellence in academic research at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and in conservation practice at The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to confront climate change, while creating a new generation of sustainability and conservation leaders who combine the rigor of academic science with real-world application.

Penn and TNC join in recognizing climate change as the single greatest environmental threat to humanity. Climate change is an issue that tightly integrates the health of the planet with the economy, access to clean and reliable energy, water, and food production, and equity. To tackle these challenges, our world needs science that blends climatology, physics, economics, business, chemistry, engineering, technology and communications with conservation and ecology. As well, it must marry the best academic research with opportunities for rapid testing and deployment in the real world to address human well-being.

The specific program goals are to:

Invest in the talent potential of a new generation of climate change leaders
Recruit scientists who bring a diversity of culture, experience, and ideas to Penn and TNC
Support innovative and impact-oriented research that helps deliver TNC outcomes
Provide the fellows and Penn research community as a whole with access to real-world conservation professionals and issues.

Postdoctoral Fellows will be supported annually with a $70,000 stipend and benefits, a $10,000 research fund, and up-to $2,000 for professional travel. A one-time relocation reimbursement of up-to $2,000 is also available. Fellows will be eligible for support for up-to two consecutive years.

Dear all,

The University of Chicago Research Computing Center (RCC) is looking for an experienced Computational scientist to serve as a domain expert in supporting and advising climate research projects. This job offers a unique opportunity to support and advise faculty, postdocs, and graduate students on climate-related research projects.

Click here to apply and become part of the UChicago research community.

The Computational scientist will develop software to support data acquisition, ingestion, and integration for research related to climate, geophysical science, and atmospheric science, among other topics. The scientist will also assist in developing user interfaces and scalable back-end services to automate and accelerate the scientific output of multi-institutional research projects

We encourage you to apply for this incredible opportunity if you hold a Ph.D. in Mathematics, Computational Sciences, Earth Science, Soil Science, Environmental Science, Geophysical Sciences, or a related field and have, among other skills:

Expertise in one or more scientific programming languages (e.g., C/C++, Fortran90, Python, MATLAB),
Experience with noscripting languages and visualization software to process, analyze, visualize, and interpret large datasets and dynamical model forecasts.
Experience using ML or AI techniques for climate or earth system science.
A proven track record in grant proposal development.
Thanks,

Dear Colleagues,

I am looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher to work on our collaborative (WHOI-USGS-ODU) NSF funded project studying coastal wetland cold season dynamics. The job summary and position link are below.

Please share widely and don't hesitate to research out with questions!

https://whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WHOI-External/job/Postdoctoral-Investigator-in-Coastal-Wetland-Cold-Season-Dynamics_JR100155

Job Summary

The Coastal Groundwater Hydrology Team (juliaguimond.com) in the Department of Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is inviting applications for a postdoctoral researcher position on an NSF-funded Collaborative Research project. The project focuses on cold season freeze-thaw processes, groundwater flow, and carbon dynamics in New England salt marshes, to (1) understand the hydrologic functioning of marshes during winter and (2) quantify the magnitude and mechanisms through which porewater, groundwater and carbon are exported from salt marshes to the tidal channel during the cold season. This work is in collaboration with Dr. Meagan Eagle at the U.S. Geological Survey Woods Hole Center and Dr. Joseph Tamborski at Old Dominion University. We seek a postdoctoral investigator to join this interdisciplinary research team for an 18-month period with a focus on fundamental research related to cold season coastal wetland hydrology, freeze-thaw dynamics, and lateral carbon export. A wealth of observational data has already been collected with an additional field season in 2025-2026. Due to the collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of the project, the specific area of interest of the postdoctoral investigator may include geophysics, hydro(geo)logy, and hydro-biogeochemistry – all helping to achieve our goal of better understanding coastal wetland hydrological, thermal, and biogeochemical processes occurring in North Atlantic salt marshes in the winter for improved annual estimates of water and carbon outwelling to the coastal ocean.

The Institution has a top-rated postdoctoral program (www.whoi.edu/postdoctoral/) that supports a dynamic postdoctoral community with formal mentoring and career guidance programs. While the primary focus of the work will be in research, the Postdoctoral Investigator will have the opportunity to participate in mentoring and outreach activities associated with our project.

I ideal position start date is late spring or early summer.
Job Denoscription

Essential Functions & Duties

Conduct field work at multiple New England salt marsh sites, primarily during cold periods (November through April) with additional summer sampling campaigns.

Analyze and interpret hydrological, temperature, geophysical and/ biogeochemical field data.

Assist with field planning and execution.

Lead preparation of manunoscripts.

Present work at national and international conferences.

Required Experience & Education

Education: PhD in earth science, civil and/or environmental engineering, geoscience, physical oceanography, or related field.

Previous Experience Desired: Collecting coastal and/or cold region field observations including hydrological, geophysical, and/or biogeochemical data. Experience processing, analyzing, and organizing large sets of timeseries data.

Preferred Experience & Education

Conducting numerical modeling of groundwater dynamics, freeze-thaw processes, and/or coupled surface/subsurface flow.

Experience interpreting groundwater and surface water biogeochemical data and or geophysical data.


Julia Guimond, PhD
Assistant Scientist, AOPE
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
(508) 289-3492
https://www2.whoi.edu/staff/jguimond/
juliaguimond.com
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