We would like to draw your attention to the following PhD opportunities currently being advertised as part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership between the University of Aberdeen and QueenÕs Belfast, UK. Projects are fully funded and open to both UK and international students, with a deadline of Wednesday 17th January 2024. For more details, follow the links below, and for any queries, feel free to get in touch with the lead supervisor of each project.
c1-A Late Glacial and Holocene tephrostratigraphy for Antarctica.
Lead supervisor: Prof. Gill Plunkett (
Controls on ice m. lange formation/preservation in Greenland fjords and itÕs cascading impact on marine ecosystems. Lead supervisor: Dr William Harcourt (
c2-Crevasse squeeze ridges: A fingerprint of unstable glacier flow?
Lead supervisor: Prof. Brice Rea (
c3-Frozen fieldwork: an archival analysis of Danish expeditions to the Greenland Ice Sheet in the 19th century.
Lead supervisor: Dr Isabelle Gapp (
c4-Historical trends and future projections in lake and river ice phenology.
Lead supervisor: Andrew Newton (
c5-Offshore engineering geomorphology for energy transition.
Lead supervisor: Dr Bartosz Kurjanski (
c6-The impact of changing land-use and water availability on human migration in the Western Himalaya.
Lead supervisor: Shaktiman Singh (
c7-Unravelling glacier and climate history of the Californian Sierra Nevada during the last deglaciation.
Lead supervisor: Prof. Matteo Spagnolo (