Undergraduate Summer Scholarships

12 September 2012

The ARC Centre of Excellence Summer Scholarships in Climate System Science are highly competitive scholarship awards intended to provide undergraduate students from Australian universities an introduction to cutting-edge climate system research at the UNSW Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC).

Students should be in their second, third, or post-honours year and interested in pursuing a postgraduate degree in climate system science. Current CCRC honours or PhD students are not eligible for this scholarship.

Up to five scholarships are available for domestic students to conduct supervised research at the CCRC for an eight-week period during the summer break from November to February, with a break around the holidays. The scholarships are valued at $4,000 for the eight-week research project. To be eligible, applicants must be Australian/New Zealand citizens or Australian permanent residents.

Within the scholarship, students will conduct supervised research on one of the following projects:

Exploring the sensitivity of simulated land-atmosphere carbon fluxes to initial conditions. [More information]
How will the Southern Ocean respond to Anthropogenic Forcing? [More information]
The role of eddies in the hysteresis of the global wind driven ocean circulation. [More information].
Climate-carbon cycle interactions on centennial to millennial time scales. [More information].
Land surface modelling with the Community Atmosphere Biosphere Land Exchange (CABLE) model; model evaluation, land-atmosphere coupling, and the terrestrial carbon cycle. [More information].
Paleoclimatological impacts of ocean gateways from the Eocene to present. [More information].
Climatology of sounding data over Australia. [More information].
Micrometeorological modelling of the urban environment. [More information].
Studying the El Nino-Southern Oscillation in a hierarchy of numerical models. [More information].
Understanding large-scale ocean adjustment through westward propagation. [More information].
The Health Impacts of Climate Change. [More information].

Students interested in applying for a scholarship should provide a package containing:

a cover letter explaining their interest in the scholarship program and a shortlist of the projects they are keen to work on,
a current academic transcript, and
a short CV with particular focus on their computational skills.

This package should be sent to E.vanSebille@unsw.edu.au before 15 October 2012. It is anticipated that applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application within three weeks of the closing date.

For further information, contact Dr Erik van Sebille: E.vanSebille@unsw.edu.au, phone (02) 9385 7196.

Links:

ARC Centre of Excellence Summer Scholarships in Climate System Science

Latest news

Announcing the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014
06 May 2013
To mark the centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by the great scientist and explorer Sir Douglas Mawson, Professor Chris Turney and Dr Chris Fogwill of the CCRC are leading a privately-funded voyage of discovery to the Antarctic during the Austral summer of 2013-2014.

New website will let you Adrift away
24 April 2013
Dr Erik Van Sebille along with David Fuchs and Jack Murray has created a new website, Adrift, which allows visitors to track the path of flotsam for the next 10 years from almost any place by the ocean.

Last 100 years reverse 1400 years of global cooling
22 April 2013
The first continental-scale reconstruction of temperatures over the past 2000 years by 78 scientists from 24 countries has highlighted the unusual nature of the 20th century warming.

More news...

The Copenhagen Diagnosis

On 25th November 2009 members of The Climate Change Research Centre, as part of a group of 26 international climate scientists, were part of a major international release of a new report synthesizing the latest climate research to emerge since the last IPCC Assessment Report of 2007.

The Big Engine 2: oceans and weather

Federation Fellow and 2008 Eureka Prize winner, Professor Matthew England of CCRC, on the latest research into the role oceans play on weather.

The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers

Co-authored by Professor Steven Sherwood and Professor Matt England of CCRC, this Academy of Science report aims to summarise and clarify the current understanding of the science of climate change for non-specialist readers.

The Big Engine 1: oceans and weather

Federation Fellow and 2008 Eureka Prize winner, Professor Matthew England of CCRC, on the latest research into the role oceans play on weather.

New insights into the climate of the past 2,000 years

A comprehensive new scientific study has revealed fresh insights into the climate of the past 2,000 years, providing further evidence that the 20th century warming was not a natural phenomenon. After 1900, increasing temperatures reversed a previous long-term cooling trend. This 20th Century warming has occurred simultaneously in all regions except Antarctica.

The dynamics of the global ocean circulation

The ocean is far from a stagnant body of water. Instead, it is constantly in motion, at speeds from a few centimetres per second to two metres per second in the most vigorous currents.

Leave the ocean garbage alone: we need to stop polluting first

Recent plans to clean plastics from the five massive ocean garbage patches could do more damage to the environment than leaving the plastic right where it is.

Charting the garbage patches of the sea

Just how much plastic is there floating around in our oceans? Dr Erik van Sebille from UNSW's Climate Change Research Centre has completed a study of ocean "garbage patches", and has found that in some regions the amount of plastic outweighs that of marine life.

Share | |