PhD in Earth System Sciences

The University of Exeter in Exeter is offering a fully funded PhD studentship within the CLARiTy international research consortium focused on reducing land flux uncertainties in the Global Carbon Budget by developing next-generation Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) to accurately represent tropical forest and savanna carbon cycling and vegetation recovery from disturbance./nYou'll develop and run JULES, integrate novel datasets and remote-sensing observations, build mechanistic representations of ecosystem responses to disturbance, and constrain models using empirical and remote-sensing observations. The role includes access to world-class datasets, mentorship, international collaboration, and a specialist workshop on tropical vegetation dynamics in South Africa (April 2026). Location: Exeter.