PhD Opportunities, Climate Tipping Points - United Kingdom
Applications are invited for 7 fully funded PhDs, starting October 2025, as part of the Innovation Agency (ARIA) project VERIFY: Out Of Sample Testing For Early Warning Systems Using Past Climate.
Description
Are you interested in helping to solve some of the most pressing issues in global climate change? Are you keen to develop advanced research skills that can equip you for a wide range of future careers? For these reasons and more, you may be an ideal candidate to apply for a studentship with the ARIA project VERIFY.
AVAILABLE PROJECTS
1. High-resolution geochemical analysis of Greenland ice cores to identify early warning signals of rapid climate change, British Antarctic Survey, supervised by Liz Thomas (lith@bas.ac.uk).
2. Investigating past North Atlantic Subpolar gyre tipping points to improve early warning systems, Durham University, supervised by Paola Moffa-Sanchez (paola.l.moffa-sanchez@durham.ac.uk).
3. Deciphering the dynamics of abrupt ocean change and climate tipping points, University of St Andrews, supervised by Graeme MacGilchrist (gam24@st-andrews.ac.uk).
4. Evaluating early warning signals against past climate tipping points, University College London, supervised by Chris Brierley (c.brierley@ucl.ac.uk).
5. Values and uncertainty in early warning of climate tipping points, University College London, supervised by Erica Thompson.
6. How stable is the Greenland ice sheet? A view from the past, University of Leeds, supervised by Lauren Gregoire (l.j.gregoire@leeds.ac.uk).
7. Back to the future: ice sheet collapse, ocean circulation slowdown and abrupt climate change, University of Leeds, supervised by Ruza Ivanovic (r.ivanovic@leeds.ac.uk).
Tasks
VERIFY’s aim is to observe and understand massive changes (so-called tipping events) in the climate of the North Atlantic in the recent and geological past. Embedded in 6 institutions across the UK, and with partners in mainland Europe and the USA, VERIFY brings together experts in modern and palaeo-climate dynamics, high resolution and complexity modelling, with data scientists and statisticians. These past tipping events will serve as a testbed for verifying whether tipping behavior can be predicted by Early Warning Systems (EWSs), forming a crucial component of an £81m ARIA-funded effort to develop these systems in the North Atlantic region.
Projects are available in a diverse array of disciplines, including social science, Earth System Modelling, ice and sediment core geochemistry, and dynamical systems and statistical analysis. Students will benefit from involvement in the broader project and interactions with researchers and fellow students across VERIFY and the wider ARIA ‘Forecasting Tipping Points’ programme.
Requirements
Please note that the funder covers stipend and home fees only – international students will need to secure additional funding or cover the difference between home and international fees themselves. The project will assist with applications for additional funding for exceptionally strong international students.
Applications
Deadline for applications: various in March, please see further details of each project. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an interview shortly after the submission deadline.
15 March 2025 - 23:59
Further information
View the pdf here: https://pastglobalchanges.org/sites/default/files/2025-02/verify_open_positions.pdf
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