Graduate studies

NOC-Liverpool is seeking to recruit two PhD students for fully-funded NERC studentships. Applicants must be from the UK or EU only. Studentships will commence in October 2011 and can be selected from the following projects:

• Identifying and characterizing shelf edge cascading on the multi-decal timescales


• Towards understanding sediment processes in estuarine environments


• Fate of Fresh Water in Tidally Stirred Seas


• Bayesian approaches to the spatial interpolation of sea-level time-series


• The coastal ocean atmospheric boundary layer and air-sea interaction in Liverpool Bay, with application to surge and wave modelling and coastal impacts of storms


• Studies of Central and South Atlantic Ocean Circulation and Sea Level Variability


• Downscaling Climate Predictions to the Coastal and Shelf Seas

All applicants should have, or expect to achieve, a first class or upper second degree in a relevant numerate discipline such as physics, mathematics, or oceanography.

Funding for this studentship is restricted to UK and EU nationals who fulfil NERC's eligibility requirements. More information is available from the Natural Environment Research Council's website.

To apply email Peter Hunt at pol-phdenquiries@pol.ac.uk. In your covering email letter please state where you saw the advertisment, confirm your eligibility for the award, and indicate which of the projects that you are applying for. Please also include a CV.

For full consideration, applications should be received by the end of Monday, 25th April 2011, with interviews held during the week commencing on the 9th May 2011. However, applications for all positions will continue to be reviewed until the studentships are filled.

Other local opportunities

Our host institution's, Liverpool University, School of Environmental Sciences also offers various PhD studentships (advert now closed), including the newly advertised Water-mass exchange across the shelf break - an integrated viewpoint. This opportunity is still open. Apply through the web link.

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NOC PhD student profiles

Listed below are profiles from two of the students currently undertaking their PhDs here at NOC (in total we have more than 10 PhD students). The profiles should give you an idea of the type and standard of our PhDs, and a bit about what it is like working at NOC and living in Liverpool.