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We have 181 ocean PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Oceanographic connectivity: finding the climate change signal

University of Oxford

Department of Earth Sciences

Overview. Where do things drift in the ocean? This simple question is incredibly important for many applications, from marine ecology to tracking plastic pollution, yet we still lack a robust understanding of how drift through ocean currents may change in the future. Read more

Supervisors: Prof NVV Vogt-Vincent, Prof H Johnson

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

Marine population connectivity: bridging genetics and oceanography

University of Oxford

Department of Earth Sciences

Overview. Larval dispersal through ocean currents plays a key role in setting the connectivity of marine populations, particularly for non-migratory species. Read more

Supervisor: Prof NVV Vogt-Vincent

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

What’s driving the surge in marine heatwaves, beyond average warming?

University of Southampton

NERC IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award

Project Overview. Marine heatwaves are intensifying under climate change, damaging ecosystems and economies worldwide. This project applies machine learning and extreme value statistics to satellite and model data, to understand how ocean temperature extremes are becoming more likely. Read more

Supervisors: Dr JK Kajtar, Dr D Chan

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

Novel photonic sensing for marine environment monitoring

University of Strathclyde

Department of Physics

Light is a key driver for several fundamentally important processes in the ocean including ocean warming, photosynthesis and animal behavior. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D McKee, Dr J Macarthur

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Quantum Magnetometry for Resilient Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Navigation and Ocean Geophysics

University of Southampton

NERC IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award

Project Overview. Read more

Supervisors: Dr G Salavasidis, Prof H Ulbricht

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

Harnessing nature’s CO2 catalyst to accelerate marine carbon dioxide removal

University of Exeter

Could biology help us engineer a new way of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?. Achieving carbon dioxide removal (CDR) at enormous scale is likely to be an important part of tackling climate change. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Harmer

26 November 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Evolution and spread of a bacterial gene for organic nitrogen acquisition in marine phytoplankton and its biogeochemical impact

University of Exeter

Questions. Ocean nitrogen budgets rest almost entirely on nitrate, ammonium and urea. We have recently found that marine phytoplankton also grow on a small nitrogen compound that many bacteria expel as a toxin, using an enzyme acquired from bacteria by horizontal gene transfer. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Monier

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

YES-27-D-20: Earth’s Great Oxidation: Redox and nutrient controls on the transition to a permanently oxygenated atmosphere

University of Leeds

School of Earth & Environment

The rise of oxygen has been recognised as one of the most significant episodes in the history of our planet, and the initial rise set in motion a chain of events that ultimately resulted in the habitable conditions we now enjoy. Read more

Supervisors: Prof S Poulton, Prof B J W Mills

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

Potential environmental perils or benefits of shipboard carbon-capture systems

University of Southampton

NERC IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award

Project Overview. Shipping produces ~3% of global CO2 emissions. Zero-carbon fuels remain distant ambitions and shipboard carbon capture and storage remains challenging. Read more

Supervisors: Prof S Turnock, Prof T Tyrrell, Dr L Armstrong, Dr SV Vakili

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

The final trigger for climate-driven tipping points beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf

University of Southampton

NERC IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award

Project Overview. Antarctica's largest ice shelf, the Ross, currently floats in very cold water. With enough climate change, this water could suddenly warm, which would increase ice shelf melting and accelerate sea level rise. Read more

Supervisors: Dr K Naughten, Prof P Holland, Prof A. N. G. Garabato

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

The Underwater Acoustic Footprint of Offshore Infrastructure

University of Southampton

NERC IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award

Project Overview. Offshore infrastructure, from renewable-energy devices to oil and gas platforms, bridges, met-masts and pipelines, can alter marine soundscapes, but its acoustic contribution is difficult to isolate. Read more

Supervisors: Prof PR White, Dr E Arcondoulis, Dr VT Todd, Prof MR Rollo

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

Ecophysiological and biogeographic responses of key foundation species to a rapidly changing climate in the northeast Atlantic

University of Southampton

NERC IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award

Project Overview. The ocean climate of the northeast Atlantic is rapidly changing, yet ecological consequences are poorly understood for most species. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D Smale, Prof R. M. Marsh, Dr Z Jacobs, Dr K Smith, Dr LH Harrison

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

PhD in Earth Sciences - Melting the ice: modelling ice-brine dynamics and cryovolcanism on Europa

University of Glasgow

College of Science and Engineering

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is one of the most compelling targets for planetary science and astrobiology. Read more

Supervisors: Dr AGG Grima, Dr T Keller

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

YES-27-A-14: When the Ocean Tips: Observing, Governing, and Acting on North Atlantic Circulation Change Across Generations

University of Leeds

School of Earth & Environment

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a critical component of the Earth system redistributing heat across the Atlantic Ocean and strongly influences climate in northwestern Europe. Read more

Supervisors: Dr SL Lorenz, Dr R Ivanovic

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

Global scale understanding of ocean photosynthesis through active chlorophyll fluorescence

University of Southampton

NERC IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award

Project Overview. Oceanic photosynthesis is fundamental to marine foodwebs and the global carbon cycle. Active chlorophyll fluorescence sensors can potentially transform understanding and monitoring of this process at global scale. Read more

Supervisors: Prof MM Moore, Dr T Ryan-Keogh , Mr K Oxborough

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

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