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Subject: PhD fellowships / UK
From: Guy Trebuil CU (Guy.T@chula.ac.th)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2006 - 09:18:43 CET
Ph.D. Fellowships (For non-UK applicants)The Catchment Science Centre is a collaborative research initiative created by the Environment Agency and the University of Sheffield with a mission to provide the scientific underpinning for the management of catchments to deliver good ecological quality in freshwater ecosystems. We have Marie Curie funding from the European Commission for six PhD fellowships for a project called CatSci. We are seeking up to six intellectually able, skilled and ambitious individuals to receive multi-disciplinary research training and conduct research within a large team on specific topics in the general field of catchment science. Broad topic areas include:- Understanding the controls on aquatic and riparian ecosystem structure and functioning, for example the roles of flow, hydro-morphology and chemical quality, and disentangling the relative importance of abiotic to biotic interactions.- Understanding the pathways and transformations which control the delivery of water and associated solutes to freshwater ecosystems. - Analysis and modelling of the combined physicochemical, ecological, and socio-economic interactions in catchments, for example using systems analysis, numerical modelling and AI methods.We are willing to consider alternative research topics for particularly able candidates. These Fellowships are available to start before 31st December 2006, and are 3-year fixed term appointments. For more information, please see: http://www.shef.ac.uk/csc/catsci.html or contact: John Wainwright, Department of Geography, The University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield S10 2TN UK. Tel: +44 (0)114 222 7951, Fax: +44 (0)114 279 7912