Training and Education
MRes, MPhil and PhD opportunities
The John Henry Garner Scholarship
This scholarship can finance postgraduate research on matters relating to chemical and biological surveys of rivers and streams, pollution prevention and the purification of sewage and trade effluents in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Please see the attached document for further information.
Interdisciplinary: School of Geography and Civil Engineering
PhD opportunities in The School of Geography
- Climate change impacts on alpine river dynamics
- Stream food web responses to alpine glacier retreat (NERC)
- Land use effects on upland stream stream macroinvertebrate traits and functional diversity (NERC)
- Carbon cycling below the streambed
- Carbon sources and cycling in chemosynthetic ecosystems of the Southern Ocean
- Climate change impacts on New Zealand glaciers
- Carbon quality, characteristics and decomposition in peatland soils and streams
- Carbon, communities and contestation, understanding the ecological and social impacts of upland
peat management in the UK (fully funded ESRC/NERC studentship)
- More opportunities in the School of Geography
PhD opportunities in The School of Earth and Environment
- Nutrient cycling in the turbidity maximum zone of the Humber Estuary
- Unusual patterns of diagenesis in offshore sediments of the Yellow River Delta, China
- Changes in Ocean Oxygenation During the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
- Life in the cold: survival in and adaptations to an extreme environment
- Using pumping testing to detect permeability anisotropy and presence of faults in the Sherwood Sandstone Aquifer
- Revisiting bedform dynamics in the deep-sea
- Spread of innovative water harvesting systems in Africa
- Can community based resource management deliver ecosystem services?
- Ecosystem services and the role of the property rights in UK uplands?
- Predictions of rainfall changes - an energy budget approach
- Predicting the West African Monsoon
- More opportunities in the School of Earth and Environment
PhD opportunities in The Faculty of Biological Sciences
- The impact of pollutants on sperm production and fertility in amphipods
- More opportunities in Biological Sciences
PhD opportunities in the Faculty of Engineering
Our students are a very important part of our team, researching some of the big issues in water science, engineering, technology and management. If you are interested in water research and would like to discuss the opportunities available, please contact the project coordinator via our contact us form or the named contact for the projects listed.
