Research Opportunities – SENSE – Centre for Satellite Data in Environmental Science

Projects being advertised on this page are for studentships starting in October 2021. Deadline for applications is Sunday 10th January 2021, and interviews will take in late February 2021. Please see ‘Apply Now‘ for more information. If you are thinking of applying, please watch our two webinars:

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Historic Map segmentation and Earth observation data

Theme(s):
Primary Supervisor: Stuart King <s.king@ed.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Edinburgh (School of Maths )

Severe weather over Southeast Asia

Theme(s): Atmospheric Physics, Meteorology, Modelling, Satellite Data
Primary Supervisor: Dr Juliane Schwendike
Institution: University of Leeds

Investigating the potential for catastrophic collapse of Greenland’s ‘land’-terminating glacier margins

Theme(s): Climate, Glaciology, Hydrology, Modelling, Remote Sensing, Sea Level
Primary Supervisor: Peter Nienow <Peter.Nienow@ed.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Edinburgh

Improving the representation of the stratosphere in meteorological reanalyses

Theme(s): Advanced Computing, Atmosphere and Climate
Primary Supervisor: Martyn Chipperfield <M.Chipperfield@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)

Measuring Antarctic uplift due to ice loss, from space

Theme(s): Interferometry, Modelling, Remote Sensing, Satellite Data, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Tectonics, volcanology and solid Earth geophysics
Primary Supervisor: Andy Hooper
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)

The effects of cloud aerosol interaction on earth albedo and radiation budget using Earth Observation Datasets and Numerical Weather Model Simulations.

Theme(s): Aerosols, Atmosphere and Climate, Earth Observation
Primary Supervisor: Professor Stephen Salter <S.H.Salter@ed.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Edinburgh (School of Engineering)

Development and exploitation of a high-resolution sea level product in the coastal ocean

Theme(s): Advanced Computing, Altimetry, Climate, Oceanography, Remote Sensing, Satellite Data, Sea Level
Primary Supervisor: Chris Banks <chris.banks@noc.ac.uk>
Institution: National Oceanography Centre

Seasonal flow variability as an indicator of mountain glacier basal conditions

Theme(s): Glaciology, Optical, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
Primary Supervisor: Professor Duncan Quincey

Fragmentation impacts on tropical forests’ vegetation structure

Theme(s): Applied ecology, ecosystem services and conservation, Forest
Primary Supervisor: Guy Ziv
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Geography)

How does land use impact on global air quality and climate: a combined satellite and model study

Theme(s): Aerosols, Air Quality, Atmospheric Composition, Land Use Change, Modelling, Satellite Data
Primary Supervisor: Professor Ruth Doherty <Ruth.Doherty@ed.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Edinburgh (School of Geosciences )