The NERC funded DREAM Centre for Doctoral Training will support three cohorts of 10 students, who will join the programme in October 2015, 2016 and 2017 respectively. As part of the 2015 intake a list of Newcastle based proposals are shown below; the complete list across all institutions can be found on the DREAM website. Positions are competitive and a student interview stage will allow us to identify the top student applicants. For those interested in any of the proposals listed below please do not hesitate to contact Stuart Barr for more information or with completed applications.
Doctoral studentships and topics offered will be advertised here and across other dissemination routes.
Two of the studentships in the second cohort next year in 2016 will be interdisciplinary studentships co-funded by ESRC and NERC. These will focus on linking the social science research areas with environmental sciences research areas.
Projects at Newcastle
- Big data tools for massively distributed environmental hazard data lakes
- Global infrastructure flood risk analysis using big data
- Developing an innovative capability for managing flood risk in the information age
- Modelling flooding from multiple sources using coupled models and multi-scale high resolution datasets
- European flood and drought risk assessment using big data
- Urban data processing workflows in the cloud underpinning risk analysis in cities
- Satellite radar observations for rapidly responding large earthquakes
- Real-time estimation of lake volume and river discharge from satellite altimetry and remotely sensed imagery in ungauged basins
- High-dimensional multi-objective spatial risk and sustainability optimisation tools using cloud-enabled evolutionary computing
- Real time consequence forecasts for weather and climate related events
Important Dates
- Studentship applications closing date – 19th June
- Notification of applicants selected for interview – 22nd June
- Interviews held – week commencing 22nd June
- Notification of successful applicants – 3rd July
- DREAM induction programme at Cranfield – October 2015
How to Apply
If you are interested in joining DREAM to study for a PhD in Big Data, Risk and Environmental Analytical methods, the 2015 call for projects has now been opened for applications.
Note, when completed, please email applications forms to Newcastle (plus additional documents as directed) to Stuart Barr.
DREAM CDT Student Application Form »
Read more at http://research.ncl.ac.uk/geospatial/dream/