University College London – UCL Department of Earth Sciences
Full Time. The appointment will be on UCL Grade 7. The salary range will be £31,778 – £38,441 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.
The appointment will be based in the Mineral Physics group of UCL Earth Sciences, whose aim is to understand the dynamics and evolution of [...]

Impact of Climate Change on Food Security in the Indo-Gangetic Plain
University of Southampton – School of Geography, Global Environmental Change and Earth Observation
Supervisors – Dr. Jadu Dash, Prof. Terry Dawson
Funding: School (pending)
Climate change plays an important role on land use and land cover models which has direct effects on degradation of yield and productivity. The [...]

University College London
NERC PhD studentships in UCL Geography
UCL Department of Geography invites applications from suitably qualified students for the following NERC funded PhD studentships for study starting September 2010.
NERC Quota PhD studentship
The Department has one NERC studentship available in Physical Geography, and applications are invited for any of the following projects. Please contact the relevant [...]

University of Sheffield
Employer: University of Sheffield
Job details:
An award from the EPSRC for a Doctoral Training Centre in  Interdisciplinary Energy Research (E-Futures) is centred on a 4-year PhD  programme aimed at graduates of a physical sciences discipline, or a  related subject that includes some degree of numerical or statistical  analysis (e.g. physical geography, biology, economics, psychology [...]

Imperial College London Consultants – Based at South Kensington
Competitive depending on experience plus bonus + benefits.
Imperial Consultants provides expert consultancy, testing and project management services to industry and government in all sectors of science, engineering and medicine worldwide. We require an experienced and capable Contracts Executive to enhance the existing Contracts team.
Practical experience of contract [...]

University of Oxford – Magdalen College, Oxford
The College proposes to elect up to three Fellows by Examination (elsewhere known as Junior Research Fellow). Candidates should have an Honours degree or an equivalent qualification and have completed, or be near to completing a doctorate or other post-graduate research. They will already have demonstrated outstanding promise in [...]

Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction, Climate Change & Lake Settlement in SW Scotland
University of Southampton – School of Geography University of Southampton (PLUS), Palaeoenvironmental Laboratory
Supervisors – Prof Tony Brown, Dr Anne Crone (AOC Ltd.)
Funding source: competitive NERC doctoral training award/Scottish Heritage (pending).
In both Ireland and Scotland the construction of dwellings on artificial islands in lakes (called crannogs) took [...]

Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Ecology
University of St Andrews – School of Geography and Geosciences
Salary: £29,853 – £35,646 per annum
Main Purpose of Role
You will investigate spatial and temporal patterns of methane and nitrous oxide fluxes along environmental gradients in the Peruvian Andes, and will also explore the role of biophysical drivers in regulating rates of methane and [...]

Long-term forest dynamics in Peruvian Amazonia
University of Leeds – Faculty of Environment
School of Geography
(Full time, fixed term for 6 months, available from July 2010)
You will work on a new project entitled: Long-term forest dynamics in Peruvian Amazonia, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), The central aim is to investigate the potential of a [...]

Principal Scientist (Cooperative Behaviour of Autonomous Maritime Vehicles)
NATO grade: A4 Applications are being accepted from qualified candidates for Principal Scientist (Integrated Project Leader) at NURC. A. General A NURC Integrated Project (IP) is a focused effort to demonstrate a new level of technical capability in accomplishing maritime security missions.
Increasing levels of capability deliver reduced risk [...]