We are looking for a Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in hydrogeology – this time together with the University of Eastern Finland! 🔍

The Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) will be recruited for two consecutive but separate fixed-term employment contracts.

The position starts at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) and continues at Geological Survey of Finland (GTK).

The Doctoral Researcher will work in a project, which will:
1) systematically investigate the nano-/microplastic transport behaviour and their interactions with different traditional pollutants (metals/metalloids, organic pollutants) by performing laboratory and field experiments, and numerical modelling simulations, and
2) quantify the nano-/microplastic contents in Finnish groundwaters. 💧

The main duty of the Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) is to work towards a doctoral dissertation.

The position will be filled for a fixed term from 1 April 2025 onwards (or starting date as agreed).

Read more from UEF's LinkedIn job post 👉 https://lnkd.in/dKh4mxgS and submit your application no later than 24 March, 2025.

Dear Colleagues,

Also this year the Research Support Office is offering training and support to researchers applying for EU fundedMSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship with Eurac Research.

I strongly encourage applications. I already supervised a few fellowships and I can tell you.
working in Eurac is fun
Eurac team will support you in writing your MSCA application very well
Even if you don't receive the MSCA grant, if you are obtaining at least the Seal of Excellence means you can likely secure your fellowship through South Tyrol's funding program.
 
To help potential applicants get prepared for writing their proposals, we are hosting an online Info Session on 2 April 2025, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. The session will cover the application process, the support we offer, and insights from current MSCA fellows. Interested researchers can register here.
 
Who should apply:
We are looking for promising PhD holders interested in applying with Eurac Research. Suitable candidates should:
Have no more than 8 years of research experience after their PhD
Have not lived in Italy for more than 12 months in the last 3 years (before the submission deadline: 10 September 2025)
Be interested in submitting a proposal in a field that aligns with the expertise of our Institutes/Centers.
 
We provide comprehensive training and support to help applicants develop a winning MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal.
 
How You Can Help:
Please share this opportunity within your networks and help attract the best postdoctoral researchers to Eurac Research. If their project is successful, they will secure a fully funded two-year postdoc position, strengthen your team and enhance the international profile of your Institute/Center.
 
See this LinkedIn post.
 
The programme website: https://www.eurac.edu/en/research-support/marie-sklodowska-curie-week

Hi all,
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our interdisciplinary project "Climate discourse: Linking public discourse on climate extremes to political action" at Leipzig University! This is a 3-year position where you'll investigate how climate discourse and climate action are (or aren’t!) connected—leveraging NLP and large language models.
What you'll do:
Analyze large-scale textual data from media, social media, and political debates on climate change
Develop and apply machine learning models for NLP tasks
Integrate social science theories to interpret discourse dynamics
Publish in top journals & present at international conferences
Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of social scientists, climate researchers, and computer scientists
💡 Who should apply?
We're looking for candidates with a background in computational social science, NLP, machine learning, and climate-related challenges.
📌 Apply here: https://uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/19cb49183f1e25db8462734e444cb5dd476862ea
Please share this with potential candidates who might be interested!
Best regards,

Postdoctoral Opportunities at the National University of Singapore (NUS)

I’m sharing on behalf of colleagues at NUS two exciting Research Fellow (postdoc) openings in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering:
1️⃣ Hydrological Modelling
Focus: Runoff generation processes, process-based and physics-informed models, and flood risk under climate and urban change.
2️⃣ Machine Learning for Hydro-Meteorological Applications
Focus: Convective rainfall prediction, rainfall estimation using radar and microwave links, and ML-based nowcasting models.

Both positions are full-time, based in Singapore, with an initial 24-month contract (renewable) and offer excellent conditions and competitive salaries. Screening starts April 30, 2025. Positions remain open until filled.

For full details and application links, see the attached calls:
👉 Hydrological Modelling: https://lnkd.in/d7wDQ2xY
👉 Rainfall Modeling using ML: https://lnkd.in/dbQqM-ya

PhD Opportunity: Doctoral student in Water Resources Engineering with a focus on Radar Remote Sensing and AI. The hashtag#RemoteSensing and hashtag#AI in hashtag#Hydrology research group at the Division of Water Resources Engineering - Lund University is seeking a motivated PhD student to explore the links between rainfall, surface water management, groundwater depletion, and land subsidence. This study will use hashtag#InSAR data and AI to analyze global subsidence patterns and propose sustainable water management strategies.
🔬 Key research areas:
📡 Remote sensing (satellite & radar)
🌊 Surface water & groundwater interactions
🧠 AI-based analysis & modeling

https://lnkd.in/dFGzfhgt

Dive into a world of exciting career possibilities with "12 New Job Opportunities for Water Resources and Hydroinformatics Engineers." This guide explores the ever-evolving landscape of water engineering and hydroinformatics, shedding light on emerging roles that blend technical expertise with environmental stewardship. From data-driven decision-making and AI-powered water management systems to innovative solutions for sustainability and disaster resilience, these opportunities showcase the growing demand for professionals adept at solving modern water challenges. Whether you're looking to specialize in cutting-edge technologies or contribute to impactful projects, this resource is your gateway to shaping the future of global water resources.


The job opportunities were collected from all over the World and are available for international students: Click here to learn more :
https://open.substack.com/pub/hydrogeek/p/12-vacancies-from-water-resource?r=c8bxy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

On behalf of colleagues at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, I would like to share two exciting postdoctoral (Research Fellow) opportunities:

Hydrological Modelling – Focused on runoff generation, process-based and physics-informed modelling, and climate/urbanization scenarios.

Machine Learning for Hydro-Meteorological Applications – Targeting convective rainfall prediction using physics-informed ML and advanced sensing technologies.

Both positions offer a 24-month contract (renewable), excellent working conditions, and competitive salaries. Screening begins April 30, 2025, and the positions will remain open until filled.

For further details on qualifications, responsibilities, and the application procedure, please refer to the attached PDF files.

https://groups.google.com/g/abouthydrology/c/1HTwZu-xnHM

I am looking for one highly motivated hashtag#postdoc and one hashtag#PhDstudent, to start immediately.

Applicants for postdoctoral fellow positions: are expected to have strong experience in AI and have a doctoral degree in biomedical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Math or relevant areas.

Applicants for doctoral positions: are expected to have MSc or BSc degree in biomedical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science/Engineering, Applied Math or relevant areas.


Successful candidates will be expected to carry out multidisciplinary research, present the results in international conferences, and publish scholarly papers. The benefits for lab members are in accordance with the tables of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for postdoc researchers and doctoral students.

Strong background in computational medicine and programming is required. Interested applicants are encouraged to send their CV and trannoscripts along with 1-2 pages denoscription of their interest and background to Dr. Mahsa Dabagh at dabaghme@uwm.edu. Please list three references

Join us in Freiburg! 🌟

Are you passionate about hydrological research?

Ready to tackle the impact of climate extremes on our freshwater resources?

We invite you to apply for a PhD position focused on the impacts of floods and droughts on water quality, utilizing high-frequency data across Germany.

This is your chance to make a difference while living in the sunny city of Freiburg, nestled at the foothills of the Black Forest! 🌳💧

Don't miss this opportunity. Discover more about the position and how to apply here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dX-9-bZk

Application deadline 30/03:



https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60443187?lang=en



KU Leuven is looking for an enthusiastic PhD or Postdoctoral researcher with a heart for plant-soil interactions and food security, and interest or expertise in satellite-based remote sensing and modeling. The candidate will aim for (i) crop modeling at the field to continental scale, (i) satellite data assimilation using the AquaCrop model embedded within NASA’s Land Information System (LIS), (iii) machine learning to estimate soil moisture and biomass based on microwave signals (Sentinel-1, NISAR, SMOS, SMAP), (iv) quantifying the impacts of past climate extremes and projected climate change on crop yields around the world. The research will participate in cutting-edge and international research to improve estimates of agricultural production. You will be part of the KU Leuven Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Division Soil and Water Management, in the dynamic research group “Land Surface Remote Sensing, Modeling and Data Assimilation” (prof. Gabriëlle De Lannoy), and you will collaborate with the VUB “Water and Climate Department” (prof. Wim Thiery) and TU Delft (prof. Susan Steele-Dunne). The researcher is expected to work in a broad international context within the CROPWAVES (Belspo) project, collaborate with other researchers and students, and should be willing to contribute to open source code distribution (e.g. GitHub).

The pressure of population growth and climate change ask for innovative solutions to monitor crop growth at the continental scale. Remote sensing and high performance computing allow to address this need, but the interpretation of active and passive microwave signals in terms of crop development, and the implementation of physically-based crop models such as AquaCrop at the continental scale are only in their infancy. Our team is committed to maximally extract geophysical information from active and passive microwave sensors, and to advance the large-scale use of physically-based land surface and crop models at increasing spatial resolutions. In particular, our department has a long history of development and maintenance of the AquaCrop crop model. At the same time, machine learning using satellite data offers new opportunities to estimate biomass and these might help to improve or complement our physically-based models.


Unit website


Responsibilities
Perform and disseminate high quality research related to soil moisture and biomass remote sensing, crop modeling, data assimilation and machine learning
Supervise master thesis students
For PhD students: follow training in line with the doctoral school requirements
Profile
PhD student:


MSc degree in Bioscience Engineering, Civil or Environmental Engineering, Hydrology, Meteorology, Remotely Sensed Earth Observation, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Sciences, or equivalent
Excellent motivation to work on soil-plant processes, remote sensing and modeling
Experience with data-processing or programming in Python, Matlab, IDL, GrADS, R, or other
Interest in open source code distribution (e.g. GitHub)
Excellent motivation and grades
Creative, critical, analytical and innovative mindset
Ability to work independently
Excellent written and oral communication skills in English


Postdoctoral researcher:

PhD degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering, Bioscience Engineering, Hydrology, Meteorology, Remotely Sensed Earth Observation, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Sciences, or equivalent
Experience with land surface and/or atmosphere and/or crop processes and modeling
Experience with remote sensing, Earth observation, large datasets
Experience in statistics, including some notions on data assimilation
Experience with data-processing software such as Python, Matlab, IDL, GrADS, R, or other
Experience with programming and scientific computing in a language such as Fortran or C
Experience with high-performance computing in a Linux environment
Excellent motivation and grades
Creative, critical, analytical and innovative mindset
Ability to work independently and lead a small research group
Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, proven in publications
Experience with working with Git/Github is an advantage


Offer
EITHER: fully funded PhD scholarship for 4 years; support and training through the Arenberg Doctoral School (https://set.kuleuven.be/phd); students graduating with a Msc degree in the summer 2025 are encouraged to apply
OR: postdoc position for 2 years, with a possibility for 1 year extension
The start date can be negotiated, but no later than the summer-early fall of 2025.
Competitive salary, support in career development
Multi-disciplinary and international professional environment
Leuven is a charming historical university town, located in the heart of Western Europe
Interested?
Only scientists matching the above profile should apply. Please submit your resume, along with a motivation letter and two names for references via the online application tool. Applicants for a PhD position, please make sure to indicate your study grades (obtained until now) in your resume. For more information please contact prof. dr. ir. Gabrielle De Lannoy, tel.: +32 16 37 67 13, mail: gabrielle[dot]delannoy[at]kuleuven[dot]be.

You can apply for this job no later than March 30, 2025 via the online application tool



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Prof. dr. ir. Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy

KULeuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Division Soil and Water Management

Celestijnenlaan 200 E - box 2411
B-3001 Heverlee
Belgium

Rm 02.225

Tel +32 16 37 67 13

PhD Opportunity

Florida Institute of Technology, in partnership with UCF and FDEP, has recently been awarded funding to study the impacts of engineered ocean inflow on estuarine circulation and health. This is a multi-institution, multi-agency project with the opportunity to work with a team of scientists and engineers. As part of this project a temporary pumping station will be built and operated for one year, with the goal of assessing the impact of enhancing ocean circulation on the improving the health of the Indian River Lagoon (IRL) on Florida's east coast.

Starting in Fall 2025, I have an open PhD position directly related to this project that combines modeling and measuring the interaction between the coastal ocean and IRL a restricted estuary.

This project will explore how that interaction changes with engineered interventions, and how climate related changes to coastal ocean circulation may impact the health of the estuary. Our team will be deploying instrumentation including ADCP's to measure flow adjacent to the inflow pump station and deeper in the estuary, providing valuable validation data for a high-resolution circulation model of the region.

Applicants must have the ability to work in the US, either as a US citizen or currently hold a visa.

If you are interested, please send your CV and a cover letter including your research interests and experience to rjweaver@fit.edu.


Regards,
-Robert

Open call for 5 PhD positions at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
The positions are within the strategic research area Ocean and Coast, which focuses on societal challenges related to the open ocean, coastal areas with their fjords and coastal communities, rivers and lakes, the water cycle, and water more generally. The Arctic faces particular challenges that will also be emphasized.
Details can be found here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/277895/announcement-of-up-to-five-phd-positions
I believe hydrologists reading this newsletter may be or know good candidates for these positions.
When applying for a PhD position, the candidates must develop a project outline in close collaboration with the intended main supervisor. 
The project outline must introduce a new interdisciplinary approach to the research question and societal challenge being addressed, as well as a reflection on how this approach contributes to filling knowledge gaps and generating solutions that can make a difference.
I am available to discuss research proposals related to water browning, a ubiquitous process that is raising concerns for its impacts on human water uses, aquatic ecosystems productivity, and the land carbon sink. The water browning issue intersects various scientific fields and is talked over by policy makers and practitioners because of its environmental relevance.
Leveraging expertise across disciplines (hydrology and biogeochemistry), we recently suggested that ongoing changes in the hydrology of northern environments are intensifying the export of dissolved organic carbon from landscape to rivers and lakes, fjords and the ocean, thus promoting water browning. I am available to discuss projects that builds on these findings.
The project may be also related to peatland restoration. Ambitious plans for restoring peatlands may indeed modify the way landscapes retain, turn and release water and biogeochemical elements. These changed conditions may mobilize the organic carbon available in the superficial layers of formerly drained peatlands, eventually altering (and - at least initially – increasing) the fluxes of organic carbon from land to water bodies.
If you are interested in the topics and positions, feel free to get in touch with me at stefano.basso@ntnu.no, attaching a short CV and a max 1-page outline of your project idea.
Thank you!
Stefano

We’re hiring in Berlin!

Join the hashtag#AqQua Project and help transform our understanding of aquatic ecosystems and their essential role for human well-being in the face of climate change.

We’re looking for a PhD student, PostDoc, or Research Software Engineer to join our vibrant and uniquely interdisciplinary team of hashtag#AI and domain experts.

You’ll work with billions of images, contribute to a foundational pelagic imaging model, and be part of a dynamic collaborative research project led by Max Delbrück Center / hashtag#HelmholtzImaging, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, and Forschungszentrum Jülich, fully committed to hashtag#OpenScience.

◾️ Interested in self-supervised learning, large-scale model training, and plankton imagery?
◾️ Based in Berlin or interested in moving there?
◾️ Background in computer science, physics, mathematics or similar?

Apply now 👉 https://lnkd.in/gx-CgZV5 Application deadline: April 25, 2025

IIT Bombay PhD applications portal is now open. I am looking to hire PhD students in the following areas:
1) Sub-seasonal to seasonal agricultural drought prediction using hybrid models
2) Land-atmosphere interactions during dry extreme events [with Prof. Vishal Dixit]
3) Downscaling satellite soil moisture using multi-sensor integration [with Prof. Avik Bhattacharya].

Further details on these topics are available here: https://lnkd.in/d4rbZctW

Interested candidates may please apply to both CSRE and Centre for Climate Studies of IIT Bombay. Candidates may also reach out to me (with CV, research experience etc.) via email.

Deadline: 11 April 2025

PhD opportunity: trans-disciplinary research on sustainability and political ecology in Asia and Africa. Deadline: 7 May 2025

The Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy), invites applications for 2 Phd positions on trans-disciplinary research on sustainability and political ecology, with a focus on Asian and/or African countries. Successful candidates will join LAST Lab.
The program is in partnership with the Heidelberg University, Germany.

The link to the call: https://lnkd.in/d_v6sKAh

The GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences is looking for a PhD candidate to join our team and work on Global gravity-based flood analysis.

If you're passionate about Earth system science and want to contribute to innovative flood monitoring research, check out this exciting opportunity:
https://lnkd.in/eQBUcKEe

Application deadline: 1 June 2025

Dear all,

Apologies for cross-posting.

I am seeking fully funded Ph.D. students to join my new research group in the Dept. of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, starting as early as January 2026 (up to September 2026). I am looking for highly motivated students with strong computational and quantitative backgrounds who are interests in:
1. Climate migration
2. Resilient and just disaster management
3. Modeling and analyzing coupled natural-human systems (or socio-hydrological systems)
4. Quantitative analysis of social/collective decision-making and social tipping involving climate/weather/climate change

Ideal candidate should hold a Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Complex Systems Science, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field. Priority will be given to those with research experience in system modeling, agent-based modeling, network theory, causal discovery, and geospatial data analysis in the proposed topics as well as experience in handling hydrological data.

If you are interested, please fill the Google form: https://shorturl.at/UfbiY. For more questions, please send an email to woisok.oh@uwaterloo.ca with the subject [Prospective student inquiry - NAME] (please send emails only for any further questions, not for stating your interest).

Brief information on my group
Woi Sok (Woi) Oh will be joining the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo as an Assistant Professor in August, 2025. His new research group will explore diverse interdisciplinary topics in Societal and Environmental (and Hydrological) Systems, including human migration, armed conflict, clean energy adoption, water resource management, climate mitigation, climate justice. To understand the underlying mechanisms of human-environment interaction, his group will develop and apply computational techniques from complex systems approaches.

Best,
Woi

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Woi Sok (Woi) Oh, PhD

Incoming Assistant Professor