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  Irrigation poverty traps in the Eastern Gangetic Plains
University of Manchester School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  Research Group: Molecular Environmental Sciences
  Dr T Foster, Prof D Polya
Application Deadline: 6 February 2019
Agriculture is central to the livelihoods of millions of rural households across South Asia. For the majority of smallholder farmers in this region, the dominant source of irrigation water supply is groundwater.
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  Groundwater and the Drinking Water Exposome in the United Kingdom (Supervisors: Prof D Polya, Prof R Wogelius, Prof D Gooddy (British Geological Survey) and Dr B Marchant (British Geological Survey)
University of Manchester School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  Research Group: Molecular Environmental Sciences
  Prof D Polya, Prof R Wogelius
Application Deadline: 6 February 2019
Groundwater contributes over 6300 Ml/day to the overall public water supply in the UK – corresponding to around 30 % of supply (British Geological Survey, 2015).
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  Impact of karstic flow on Chalk aquifer function and water quality for security of water supply
University of Leeds School of Earth & Environment
  Dr J West, Prof S Bottrell
Application Deadline: 7 January 2019
We Invite applications for a fully-funded NERC CASE PhD studentship to work on an opportunity for investigating the impacts of contaminants on water quality and security.
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  SCENARIO: Evaluating the impact of woodland management and drinking water abstraction on groundwater-fed wetlands
University of Reading School of Geography and Environmental Science
  Dr J Clark, Prof A Verhoef, Dr D Macdonald, Ms D Wilkinson
Application Deadline: 25 January 2019
Healthy, well-functioning natural wetlands are critically important, yet the world is rapidly losing these important habitats due to anthropogenic pressures (Ramsar Convention on Wetlands 2018).
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  Isotopic characterisation of methane and ethane within groundwater aquifers: assessing sources, flow pathways and the impact of shale gas exploration in the Vale of Pickering, UK
British Geological Survey Research Projects
  Dr A Smith
Application Deadline: 27 January 2019
Hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) is highly controversial with public concerns over environmental impacts, not least the risks to groundwater.
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  Bayesian Network Approaches for Vulnerability Assessment and Management of Diffuse Groundwater Pollution
The James Hutton Institute Postgraduate Training
  Dr M Troldborg, Dr Z Zhang, Dr J C Comte, Dr B Marchant
Application Deadline: 4 January 2019
BACKGROUND. Groundwater (GW) is an important source of drinking water in many countries and plays a vital role in the natural water cycle, providing the baseflow of surface water ecosystems.
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  SCENARIO: Nutrient release from coniferous woodland stimulated by changes in forest management: A new nitrate time bomb?
University of Reading School of Agriculture, Policy and Development
  Dr M Lukac, Mr M Ascott, Dr E Vanguelova
Application Deadline: 25 January 2019
Nitrogen (N) pollution of rivers and groundwater costs billions of pounds per year globally in water treatment and environmental damage from eutrophication.
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  Impact of sand dams on local aquifers in Kenya
Cranfield University School of Water, Energy and Environment (SWEE)
  Dr A Parker, Mr P Hutchings
Application Deadline: 21 January 2019
CENTA2 is a consortium of research intensive Universities and research institutes that are working together to provide excellence in doctoral research training.
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  The fate of microplastics accumulating at groundwater-surface water interfaces
University of Birmingham NERC Doctoral Training Centre Studentships with CENTA
  Prof S Krause, Dr I Lynch, Prof G Sambrook Smith
Application Deadline: 21 January 2019
The transport, fate and behaviour of MPs have been studied predominantly in marine ecosystems, with severe knowledge gaps remaining in freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems (Klein et al., 2015; Wagner et al., 2014; Windsor et al., 2018).
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  Multi-scale modelling of flow through heterogeneous geo-materials
University of Nottingham School of Mathematical Sciences
  Dr K van der Zee, Dr D Brown, Dr A Dawson
Applications accepted all year round
Do you have a passion for sustainability?. Would you like to apply mathematical research to help improve resource security?.
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