UTOPI – UMR CNRS 5311, Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France.

This PhD project will therefore investigate how successive climate change adaptation pathways reshape social and spatial inequalities in mountain tourism destinations. In particular, it will examine who benefits from adaptation, who bears its costs, who participates in decision-making, and whose needs, values, and knowledge are taken into account. The research will be based on a comparison between France and Québec. Several types of case studies may be considered, including ski resorts facing declining snow reliability, natural sites or mountain lakes experiencing high visitor pressure, and territories affected by water scarcity or changing wildfire risks. The research will combine the reconstruction of past adaptation pathways, analysis through the different dimensions of climate justice, and prospective work conducted with local stakeholders.

Application deadline 23 November 2026.

Mountain Hydrology Research Group, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA.

The Mountain Hydrology Research Group at the University of Wyoming is hiring one PhD student to start in autumn 2027 for an NSF funded project. The successful applicant will be a research assistant (RA) on the topic of melt dynamics in mountain snowpacks. The research will build upon previous research of liquid water flow through snow and hillslope runoff processes with a focus on modeling hillslope scale infiltration and runoff processes, though the project allows for a field work and/or remote sensing component depending on the student's interests.

Application deadline 16 November 2026.

NCCR CLIM+, ETH Zurich and University of Bern, Switzerland.

This PhD project is part of Workpackage 3 of NCCR CLIM+, which concentrates on questions of governance and justice around the regulation of climate extremes (such as droughts, floods, heatwaves, and heavy precipitation amongst others). The successful candidate will complete a PhD thesis at the interface of law and political science. Specifically, the thesis will investigate under what conditions law and politics recognize and define an event as 'extreme' and what this means for resulting goveranance responses and questions of justice.

Review of the applications will start mid-October.

Department of Geophysics in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford, United States.

Applications are invited for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of Geophysics in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Applications from any field of geophysics, broadly defined, are welcome.

The successful candidate will teach courses at undergraduate and graduate levels, advise students, and participate actively in the department and school communities.

Application Deadline 19 October 2026.