Jobs:Job-00544
Start reviewing process: 30 November 2021
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Position: PhD opportunities
Start reviewing process: 30 November 2021
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More information about each of the projects and the application process, as well as contact details for the prospective supervisors, can be found on the links below. Please forward these links to anyone who you think may be interested:
Project 1: Characterising and Generating Landscape Surfaces using Physically Constrained Learning (http://centa.ac.uk/studentship/characterising-and-generating-landscape-surfaces-using-physically-constrained-learning/). Supervised by Prof Chris Keylock & Dr Edwin Baynes
Project 2: Waterfalls, Hillslopes & Sediment: Understanding critical controls of landscape evolution (http://centa.ac.uk/studentship/waterfalls-hillslopes-sediment-understanding-critical-controls-of-landscape-evolution/). Supervised by Dr Edwin Baynes & Dr John Hillier
Project 3: Optimizing river restoration for multiple stakeholder needs (http://centa.ac.uk/studentship/optimizing-river-restoration-for-multiple-stakeholder-needs/). Supervised by Dr Xilin Xia, Prof Paul Wood & Dr Tim Marjoribanks
Project 4: Quantifying the hidden biodiversity, conservation value and effectiveness of fine sediment detention ponds in agri-environment schemes (http://centa.ac.uk/studentship/quantifying-the-hidden-biodiversity-conservation-value-and-effectiveness-of-fine-sediment-detention-ponds-in-agri-environment-schemes/). Supervised by Dr Kate Mathers & Prof Paul Wood
Project 5: Arctic-sourced mineral dust fluxes: quantification, drivers and impacts (http://centa.ac.uk/studentship/arctic-sourced-mineral-dust-fluxes-quantification-drivers-and-impacts/). Supervised by Prof Joanna Bullard & Dr Matthew Baddock
Project 6: Multi-scale environmental remote sensing for understanding dust in the high latitudes (http://centa.ac.uk/studentship/multi-scale-environmental-remote-sensing-for-understanding-dust-in-the-high-latitudes/). Supervised by Dr Matthew Baddock & Prof Joanna Bullard
Project 7: Modelling multi-hazard risk from intense rainfall for climate resilience of transport infrastructure (http://centa.ac.uk/studentship/modelling-multi-hazard-risk-from-intense-rainfall-for-climate-resilience-of-transport-infrastructure/). Supervised by Dr Tom Dijkstra, Dr Xilin Xia & Prof Qiuhua Liang
Project 8: Plausible most extreme multi-hazard weather events (http://centa.ac.uk/studentship/plausible-most-extreme-multi-hazard-weather-events/). Supervised by Dr John Hillier
In addition to the advertised projects above, funding is also available through the CENTA Science Opportunity Scholarships (CSOS) which are awarded prior to any project development, and are open to Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) Home-award-eligible applicants. Please see here for more details of the CSOS: http://centa.ac.uk/apply/how-to-apply/
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Loughborough as a place, it’s a small market town in the East Midlands of England (~90 minutes north of London by train) with a vibrant campus-based university (https://www.lboro.ac.uk/?external).
Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Edwin
Dr Edwin Baynes
Geography and Environment, Loughborough University
