Funding is available for Brazilian students with the Feldpausch Research Group at the University of Exeter through the CAPES and CPNq Doctoral Programme for study abroad (PDSE). Options include a “sandwich” PhD for study at Exeter from 6-10 months or a “full” PhD scholarship to undertake the full PhD programme of study at the University […]
As part of the NERC-funded Amazon Past Fire project, we coordinated a training session with university students in the secondary education teaching programme at the Federal Universidade de Acre, Brazil, about fire impacts, management, and sustainable forest use in Brazil.
Researchers at the University of Exeter describe some of the globally important research that they lead on tropical forests and peatlands.
Congratulations to all of the students graduating from the University of Exeter this week. Those completing included a PhD student I supervised, Dr Laura Vedovato, with her PhD on “From Past to Present: Impacts of Fire on Amazonian Forests” based on her fieldwork in Amazonia, soil analyses, and remote sensing analyses. Well done and good […]
This opportunity has closed. For current PhD and postdoctoral opportunities in the Feldpausch group, see Opportunities. The public selection process is now open for assessing and selecting candidates for admission to the Masters and PhD programme in the Tropical Forests Science Programme at the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) with research projects matching themes […]
This opportunity has closed. For current PhD and postdoctoral opportunities in the Feldpausch group, see Research opportunities. Two complementary PhD studentships have been funded thanks to donations from long-term University of Exeter supporters, the A. G. Leventis Foundation. Both will be based within the Global Systems Institute and focus on tropical forest protection and restoration, […]