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We have 181 ocean PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

YES-27-A-12: What causes the ocean to tip? New models for predicting Abrupt Atlantic Ocean Circulation Changes

University of Leeds

School of Earth & Environment

Research Group: Climate-Ice Research Group, Institute for Climate & Atmospheric Sciences

Combining mathematical modelling, palaeoclimate observations and advanced climate model simulations, this exciting and cross-disciplinary project aims to unify the different theories on past and future abrupt climate changes and test the early warning detection of ocean circulation tipping points. Read more

Supervisors: Dr R Ivanovic, Dr L Gregoire, Dr YM Rome, Dr A Keane, Prof C Li

12 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Does the location of ocean biological production control atmospheric pCO2?

University of Southampton

NERC IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award

Project Overview. Biological production stores carbon in the deep ocean and the physical ocean circulation returns it to the surface. Read more

Supervisors: Dr KO Oliver, Prof JN Nycander, Dr N Briggs, Dr . Castro

7 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Ecosystem responses to changes in ocean circulation LE QUERE_UEA_ARIES27

University of East Anglia

School of Environmental Sciences

Marine ecosystems are highly sensitive to the rapid physical reorganisation of the ocean under climate change. Read more

Supervisor: Prof C Le Quéré

16 December 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

The role of icebergs in heat, freshwater and nutrient exchanges in Greenland’s fjords

University of Sheffield

School of Geography and Planning

We have an exciting opportunity to support a 3.5 PhD project as part of the UKRI-funded “Fjords Exchange Heat, Freshwater and Nutrients between the Greenland Ice Sheet and the North Atlantic Ocean (FEISO)” project. Read more

Supervisors: Dr B Davison, Prof A Sole

7 January 2027 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Fate of past submarine volcanic input to the ocean

University of Oxford

Department of Earth Sciences

Overview. Read more

Supervisors: Prof H Johnson, Prof TM Mather, Prof SR Robinson

27 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Probing the Ocean Carbon Cycle and Carbon Dioxide Removal Using Autonomy

University of Southampton

NERC IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award

Project Overview. Can autonomous observing technology help us understand how the ocean processes anthropogenic carbon and how effective carbon dioxide removal approaches may be? This project will deploy state-of-the-art observing platforms (e.g. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Loucaides, Dr A Nightingale, Dr P Trucco Pignata, Dr X Li, Dr E Papadimitriou

7 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Machine learning for optimising observations of the Southern Ocean

University of Southampton

NERC IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award

Project Overview. The Southern Ocean is crucial for our climate, changing rapidly, and yet under observed. Read more

Supervisors: Dr E Boland, Prof S Josey, Dr B Evans, Dr AS Silvano, Dr JS Smith

7 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Explore extremely-low-resolution climate modelling to improve Arctic and Southern Ocean projections of sea ice

University of Reading

Department of Meteorology

This PhD is part of the Net Zero Polar Science DTP, which aims to make polar science possible in a net zero world. For further details visit https://nzps-dtp.ac.uk/. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D Schroeder, Dr LC Cooper, Dr C Holmes, Prof D Feltham, Dr E Blockley, Dr RD Diamond

6 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Dust, the Atlantic Ocean, and Climate JOSHI_UEA_ARIES27

University of East Anglia

School of Environmental Sciences

Scientific background. The Atlantic Ocean has warmed significantly over the last few years partly from increasing greenhouse gases, but other climate forcing agents also play a role. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Joshi

16 December 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Low-carbon polar research: Using archived geological samples and satellite data to track Antarctic nutrient flux in a changing climate

Northumbria University

School of Geography and Natural Sciences

This PhD is part of the Net Zero Polar Science DTP, which aims to make polar science possible in a net zero world. For further details visit https://nzps-dtp.ac.uk/. Read more

Supervisors: Dr K Winter, Prof KH Hendry , Dr J Longman, Dr S Henley

6 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Subsurface sentinels of climate change in the ocean

University of Southampton

NERC IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award

Project Overview. Climate-driven changes in marine phytoplankton will impact marine food webs and ocean carbon storage, yet detecting long term change against natural variability remains a challenge. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Hickman, Dr FM Mattei, Prof S Henson

7 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Life in a Swirl: How Ocean Eddies Shape Plankton Communities

University of Southampton

NERC IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award

Project Overview. Ocean eddies are swirling bodies of water, biogeochemical incubators that trap and transport plankton across environmental gradients, altering biogeochemistry through ecological interactions. Read more

Supervisors: Dr MB Benavides, Dr S Clayton, Dr T Bibby

7 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

YES-27-Y-06: Why do we get the composition of the atmosphere over the Southern Ocean so wrong?

University of York

Department of Chemistry

The atmosphere over the Southern Ocean is the most pristine remote marine environment on Earth and the closest modern analogue to the pre-industrial atmosphere. Read more

Supervisors: Prof M Evans, Prof P Edwards

12 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Across volcanic coastlines: sources, transport and remobilisation of volcanic material in the ocean

University of Southampton

NERC IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award

Project Overview. Volcanic eruptions transport vast volumes of sediment into the ocean. This PhD examines how pyroclastic density current and lahar-derived sediment is transported, stored, and remobilised in marine environments. Read more

Supervisors: Dr I Yeo, Dr M Clare, Prof A Cundy

7 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Engineering the ocean-atmosphere interface: accelerating atmospheric CO2 removal into seawater – PhD

University of Exeter

How do you engineer seawater to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and help to mitigate climate change?. Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at enormous scale is likely to be an important part of tackling climate change. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Halloran

26 November 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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