PhD opportunity at the University of Nottingham

[Riccardo Briganti]

Dear all,

applications are invited for a PhD studentship within the NERC-ENVISION Doctoral Training Partnership, co-funded by JBA Trust, with a project entitled: "Modelling extreme sea states in a changing climate".

Coastal systems are extremely important for the natural environment worldwide. Waves are among the most important physical drivers for their evolution. Climate change involves transformation in wave climate that need to be understood and quantified using a combination of deterministic and stochastic approaches.

This PhD project will develop methods to describe future wave climates, with a focus on extreme values nearshore. The project will start by analysing existing projections for future sea states in order to understand and model the significance and spatial variability of future trends. Thereafter, the focus will be on developing an innovative technique to model coastal extremes, e.g. the extreme combinations of sea states and sea level, using both extreme value analysis and wave propagation models.

The studentship will be based at the University of Nottingham (U.K.), and they will work in close collaboration with the National Oceanographic Centre (U.K.) and JBA (U.K.), which they will visit for extended periods during the PhD course.

Envision projects will commence in October 2024. The deadline for applications is 10^th January 2024. 

A full description of the project is available here:

https://www.envision-dtp.org/2023/modelling-extreme-sea-states-in-a-changing-climate-2/

 

For more details on the application process, eligibility, and stipend please visit:

https://www.envision-dtp.org/projects/information/

 

For informal enquiries please contact Dr Riccardo Briganti: Riccardo...@nottingham.ac.uk 

 

Best Regards

Dr Riccardo Briganti

 

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