Geospatial Jobs #131: Mar 31, 2026

Welcome to the 131st issue of Geospatial Jobs, a newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climate-tech, 🌽ag-tech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more).

The paywall on issue #127 is removed and it’s now freely accessible. Shout out to Mohit Lauer Dubey and Mahrukh Niazi who voluntarily helped with formatting this issue.

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🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:

• Constellation raised $6.5M seed round to build the OS for space networks.

• VitaminºC, an early-stage VC firm, closed €18M fund to invest on pre-seed and seed climate mitigation and adaptation startups.

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• BRIGHT Challenge (CVPR 2026): an open competition on instance-level building damage mapping using optical and SAR imagery (~300K buildings across 14 disasters). Final submission May 15, 2026.

• ITU’s GeoAI Challenge to use geospatial foundation model embeddings for global mapping tasks with open satellite data (kickoff webinar on April 8, 2026).

• Free NASA virtual workshop on Harmonized Landsat–Sentinel-2 dataset (global 30m imagery every ~1.4 days). May 12–13, 2026

• ESA-NASA Workshop on AI Foundation Models for Earth Observation (May 19-22, 2026) is now open for registration (onsite & virtual).

• 🇬🇧Southampton Geospatial Summer School (July 13-17, 2026): a 5-day, in-person program covering Earth Observation, UAVs, and geospatial AI with hands-on training.

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PhD positions:

1. Montana State U - Remote Sensing

2. U Alabama - Coastal Hydrology

3. 🇩🇪LU Hanover - Coastal Vegetation Dynamics

4. 🇫🇷Nantes U - Mars Glaciology and Climate

5. 🇩🇰U of Copenhagen - Machine Learning / Wetlands

6. 🇳🇴NTNU - Engineering Geology for Hydropower

7. 🇳🇴NINA - Geo-AI for Fine-Scale Ecosystem Accounting

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Data Science / Engineering Positions:

1. Internships:

   1. U Wyoming: Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Intern

   2. Salesforce: Summer 2026 Intern, Sustainability Analyst

   3. 🇬🇧Halliburton (Oxfordshire): Automation Geoscientist

2. Liberty Mutual (Boston): Analyst, Catastrophe Management

3. Ramboll: Environmental Data Scientist

4. CNN: Multiple positions

5. ORNL (Oak Ridge, Tennessee): Geospatial Data Engineer

6. Rhodium (Washington, DC): Research Analyst, Energy & Climate

7. 🇬🇧🇩🇪ECMWF: Data Management Engineer

8. 🇨🇭CERN (Geneva): GIS Specialist and Developer

9. 🇳🇱Class 3 Technologies: Junior Geospatial Software Engineer

10. 🇮🇹e-GEOS (Rome): Software Architect

11. 🇦🇺FrontierSI: Earth Observation Technical Lead

12. 🇦🇺 NSW Government (Sydney): Senior Scientist, Biodiversity Monitoring

13. 🇳🇿 Fulton Hogan: Geospatial Data Engineer

14. 🇮🇳Willis Towers Watson (Mumbai): Climate & Catastrophe Risk Associate/Analyst

15. 🇦🇪Stellaria (Abu Dhabi): Geospatial AI Specialist

16. 🇰🇪Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR-ICRAF) (Nairobi or Remote): Spatial Data Scientist, ML & Remote Sensing

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Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. NASA GSFC - Support Scientist (Remote Sensing / Ecological Modeling)

2. TWRI - Research Scientist (M3T Water Systems)

3. Postdoc at MIT - Remote Sensing

4. Fire Safety Research Institute - Research Scientist

5. U Maryland - Associate/Assistant Research Professors (Climate Strategy Modeling)

6. Postdoc at TAMU - Geology/Geophysics

7. Postdoc at UT SMS - LLMs/Geospatial AI in Health

8. Postdoc at Brown - Paleoclimatology

9. Postdoc at U of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa: Space Debris Impacts on Atmosphere

10. Postdoc at U Washington - Extreme Events in Historical Climate

11. Postdoc at LSU - Agricultural & Applied Economics

12. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Postdoc at U of Stirling - AI-driven Analysis of SAR

13. 🇳🇱Postdoc at Wagenigen U - Development of Movement Models

14. 🇸🇪Postdoc at Lund U - Aerosols Dependency on Land Use

15. 🇩🇪U of Hamburg - Research Associate (Social Constructions of Climate Moods)

16. 🇮🇸 Postdoc at Reykjavik UY - Icelandic Seismology/Vulcanology

17. 🇫🇷Postdoc at Normandy U- Coastal Flooding

18. 🇫🇷Postdoc at LCSE - Climate Science and Carbon Cycle

19. 🇦🇺UNSW - Rainfall Extremes and Flooding