Here are some opportunities that may be of interest:
CEH Hydro-JULES Programmes
- The first Hydro-JULES Summer School was held in July 2021 and has initiated a sequence of follow-up Summer and Winter Schools approximately every 6 months. See here for all current deadlines for the next few scheduled schools: https://hydro-jules.org/hydro-jules-school.
- The Hydro-JULES summer student placements programme was launched in May 2019 to allow graduate students to visit UKCEH to work on specific projects with a member of the Hydro-JULES team. They are short (6 weeks) but they are paid (which is perhaps unusual these days). For all details of current offerings for Summer 2022 see https://hydro-jules.org/hydro-jules-summer-placement-2022.
- The Hydro-JULES visiting scientist programme intends to facilitate collaborations that will share knowledge, advance existing research, stimulate new research areas, allow collective response to scientific initiatives, raise the international profile of CEH and enable new relationships to be built in the following environmental research fields:
- Quantification of hydro-meteorological risks,
- Using high-resolution climate predictions for hydrological applications,
- Calculation the impacts of environmental change on evaporation, transpiration, and soil moisture,
- Modelling flood inundation over large areas,
- Representing anthropogenic interventions in the water cycle, and
- Application of new techniques including Earth observation and data assimilation.
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See video here for UKCEH's achievements in its first year of independence after Dec 2019.
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JOB OPPORTUNITIES: For UKCEH, see our vacancies page (those only open to existing CEH employees are either on Workday or here). Also check out the Environment Agency, which is a related institution in the UK that also has many exciting vacancies.
TRAINING: UKCEH does a lot of training courses too. They are not free https://www.ceh.ac.uk/training but they are very good. NCAS in Reading also do training courses https://ncas.ac.uk/study-with-us/introduction-to-scientific-computing/ (I've done a couple of them myself).
OTHER INTERNSHIPS:
If you are interested in what I personally do and/or any of my projects on this website, but none of the opportunities above are appropriate (or you are not eligible), then I'm very open to people who would like to
(a) Visit me at UKCEH and find out a little about this place (see video here) and what I do (see above): send me an email and give me a bit of notice, but I'm always open to this. 10am-lunchtime is generally a good time. The address of CEH Wallingford is here and there are direct buses from Oxford and Reading.
(b) Do a short internship with me (~ up to 1 month). If you want to gain some experience in environmental science / ecology / hydrology / environmental modelling, then I can arrange a temporary desk for you at CEH Wallingford (any time of year, but subject to me being here too during the time you choose, of course). I can't offer to pay you or cover expenses, but these days getting experience on your CV is always good and you never know where these things might lead (it's not quite as bad as Conservation Science yet, but it's a very rough job market out there, I know). I've hosted 3-4 people on this basis since 2015 from school-leavers to undergraduates and they've all told me they benefited greatly from the experience. No, you don't necessarily need to know how to code or do stats: you can choose the project and if we need skills like that then I'll take you through the basics. Send me an email if you are interested.
In March 2020 we reran the course we did in February 2018 on Big Data in Environmental Biology. Again, it was heavily over-subscribed. No date set yet for another run of it, but check back here in the future.
Dates: 16 - 19 March 2020
Venue: Department for Continuing Education, Oxford
A NERC-funded four-day postgraduate skills training course on how to analyse very large environmental and ecological data-sets with advanced multivariate statistics (including big data analysis) that aims to provide integrated training for those needing a skillset of statistical approaches for industry-specific applications in ecology and environmental science that is relevant to student research and employability needs. The course itself and accommodation in Oxford are free to any successful applicant irrespective of nationality, along with a limited travel budget. Priority is given to NERC funded PhD students.
The course aims to impart an in-depth knowledge of current analytical techniques in several important statistical and industry-relevant areas. The course is based wholly on R and features comprehensive, real-life projects and case studies, all demonstrated by expert facilitators.
For further information on the course and to apply please see here.
Dates: 16 - 19 March 2020
Venue: Department for Continuing Education, Oxford
A NERC-funded four-day postgraduate skills training course on how to analyse very large environmental and ecological data-sets with advanced multivariate statistics (including big data analysis) that aims to provide integrated training for those needing a skillset of statistical approaches for industry-specific applications in ecology and environmental science that is relevant to student research and employability needs. The course itself and accommodation in Oxford are free to any successful applicant irrespective of nationality, along with a limited travel budget. Priority is given to NERC funded PhD students.
The course aims to impart an in-depth knowledge of current analytical techniques in several important statistical and industry-relevant areas. The course is based wholly on R and features comprehensive, real-life projects and case studies, all demonstrated by expert facilitators.
For further information on the course and to apply please see here.