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- United Kingdom
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- Research Field
- Formal sciencesNatural sciencesProfessions and applied sciences
- Funding Type
- Funding
- Career Stage
- First Stage Researcher (R1) (Up to the point of PhD)
- European Research Programme
- Not funded by a EU programme
About
The overall aim of this doctoral project is to develop new measures for quantifying erosion and land degradation status in high-latitude environments from remotely-sensed data to inform the sustainable use of this fragile resource into the future.
The successful candidate will:
examine the potential for remotely-sensed data (at a variety of scales) to be used for the characterisation of spatial patterns;
develop spatial indicators of rangeland status for high-latitudes, particularly in Iceland; and
develop a spatially-extensive soil erosion model for Icelandic rangelands, which can be used to predict future states.
In doing so, this project will be of great value to ensuring the sustainable use of rangeland grazing areas in high-latitude areas into the future.
Deadline for applications - Thursday 16th January 2020
For further information please see World-Leading St Andrews Scholarship in Geography and Environmental Change.
For informal inquiries, please contact Dr Richard Streeter (rts3@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Dr Katherine Keenan (Katherine.Keenan@st-andrews.ac.uk).
Please contact pgscholarships@st-andews.ac.uk with any enquiries about the scholarship application process.
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- University of St Andrews
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