Crop productivity and food supply chain modelling using Machine Learning and Remote Sensing
Theme(s): Climate
Primary Supervisor: Andy Challinor <a.j.challinor@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)
Projects
2025 Studentships:
Applications for the first cohort of YES•DTN studentships are now closed. All projects listed below are for October 2025 entry. For more more information, please see our How to Apply page, candidate resources associated FAQs.
Equal Opportunities:
Within our programme, we are dedicated to diversifying our community. As part of our ongoing work to improve Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within the NERC Panorama DTP, we hope to be able to ringfence 10% of our interviews and at least 2 of our full DLA studentships for the following identified underrepresented groups in our PhD programmes: UK Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, those from a disadvantaged socio-economic background, and disabled people. More detail on eligibility and how to apply for the studentships will be available soon – please watch this space!
Important information:
- Application deadline: 17:00 GMT on Wednesday 8 January 2025
- Shortlisting: we aim to contact candidates who have been shortlisted for interview during the week commencing Monday 17 February 2025
- Open day: all applicants invited to interview will have the opportunity to visit their host institution on an open day before the interviews (date TBA shortly)
- Interviews: to be held over the weeks commencing Monday 3 March 2025 and Monday 10 March 2025
Projects marked CASE have the possibility becoming an industry-partnered project which includes an external industry partner with additional research training and support grant (RTSG) funding and a placement. Please see the NERC CASE page for more information.
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Cold-air pooling in mountain regions – improving weather and climate prediction models with new observational data
Theme(s): Air Quality, Atmosphere and Climate, Atmospheric Physics, Climate, Climate Impacts, Glacial/Cryosphere, Meteorology
Primary Supervisor: Charles Chemel <charles.chemel@ncas.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (National Centre for Atmospheric Science)
A Machine-Learning approach to understanding and predicting the East African Long Rains
Theme(s): Climate, Meteorology
Primary Supervisor: Caroline Wainwright <c.m.wainwright@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)
The future of Himalayan glacial lakes: uncovering subsurface features and instabilities with fieldwork and remote sensing observations
Theme(s): Climate, Glacial/Cryosphere, Hydrology, Sedimentology, geomorphology and basin analysis
Primary Supervisor: C. Scott Watson <c.s.watson@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Geography)
Using geochemical techniques to trace the origin of human remains
Theme(s): Applied Geoscience, Chemistry of the Earth
Primary Supervisor: Jason Harvey <feejh@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)
Interactions between glacier loss, proglacial lake development and downstream river ecosystems
Theme(s): Applied ecology, ecosystem services and conservation, Aquatic/terrestrial/soil biogeochemistry, Ecology, Evolution & Biodiversity, Ecosystem processes, dynamics and functioning, Glacial/Cryosphere, Hydrology, Population, community and behavioural ecology
Primary Supervisor: Lee Brown <l.brown@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Geography)
Investigating the dynamics of Borneo vortices and their impacts
Theme(s): Atmospheric Physics, Meteorology
Primary Supervisor: Juliane Schwendike <j.schwendike@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)
Climate impacts from water-rich large-magnitude volcanic eruptions
Theme(s): Atmospheric Physics, Climate
Primary Supervisor: Graham Mann <G.W.Mann@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)
Exploring sediment – structure interactions in the evolution of compressional basins
Theme(s): Applied Geoscience, Dynamic Earth & Natural Hazards, Sedimentology, geomorphology and basin analysis, Tectonics, Volcanology and Solid Earth Geophysics
Primary Supervisor: Adam McArthur <a.mcarthur@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)