From studying the environmental effects of human activity to applying scientific knowledge and skills to preserve and restore our natural heritage – Environmental Science seeks solutions to pressing environmental problems.
You will focus on real-world problems, the biological, chemical and physical processes that underlie them, and ways in which humans interact in these issues. You will gain skills in understanding and processing scientific information. You will analyse and model environmental data, and communicate that information, including the risk and uncertainty involved in it, to better preserve and restore our natural environment.

New Zealand’s leading and largest Faculty of Science* brings together 10 diverse schools and departments to provide outstanding quality teaching and research opportunities. Our doctoral students work with some of the nation’s leading researchers and benefit from the faculty’s connections with international universities and industry. You will also have access to high-quality laboratory and field research facilities.

*www.science.auckland.ac.nz/excellence

We welcome PhD proposals in areas including:

• Dendrochronology, dendroclimatology and environmental change
• Geomorphology, Physical Oceanography, Coastal and Estuarine processes, Complexity and Pattern Formation, Machine Learning
• Climate change, hydro climatology and dendroclimatology, the release, fate, effects and remediation of contaminants in the environment - including pesticides, polymers, PAHs, PFASs, pharmaceuticals, metals and nanoparticles
• Vegetation dynamics and plant ecology, landscape ecology, environmental modelling and spatial statistics and spatial analysis, urban air pollution, urban meteorology, boundary layer meteorology and mesoscale flows
• Carbon and nutrient cycling, ecosystem functioning, tropical ecosystems, stable isotopes, ecohydrology and global change
• Freshwater and ecosystem ecology, watershed biogeochemistry, human influence on lakes and streams, urban hydrology, water and society, water sensitive urban design and positive impact living
• Palaeoecology; human impacts; extinctions; fire history; environmental change; vegetation change; subantarctic islands