Geospatial Jobs #137: May 12, 2026

Welcome to the 137th 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 #133 is removed and it’s now freely accessible. Special thanks to Matt Hatami and Mahrukh Niazi who voluntarily helped with formatting this issue.

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🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:

• 🇩🇪 LiveEO raised €28M to Scale Geospatial Intelligence Across Civil Infrastructure and Defense

• Planet has signed a 7-figure agreement with the Greece government

• SkyFi was selected by USSOCOM to enable geospatial intelligence for global SOF operators

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• ARIA and Secondlaw are hosting demos (London, May 15) on AI for next-generation weather and climate modeling.

• Kaggle competition: Ground Cover Segmentation Challenge, by Duality AI+Lunate AI

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PhD positions:

1. NC State U: Forest Ecohydrology & ML

2. U of South Dakota: Drought, Soil Moisture & Dust Flux

3. 🇨🇦 UCalgary: Big Geospatial Data Science & AI Analytics

4. 🇨🇦 UDS: Remote Sensing & large-sample Hydrology

5. 🇬🇧 Newcastle U: Parametric Protection from Drought Risk

6. 🇳🇴 U Oslo: Climate Risk and Energy Systems

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Data Science / Engineering Positions:

1. Internships:

   1. American Forests (New York - Remote): Data Management Internship

   2. Rainmaker (Oklahoma): Radar Intern

   3. 🇫🇮Kuva Space (Espoo): Satellite Software Development Intern

   4. 🌎Ready (Remote): Geospatial Data Engineer Intern

2. Verisk (Boston):