Geospatial Jobs #146: Jul 14, 2026

Welcome to the 146th 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 #142 is removed and it’s now freely accessible. Shout out to Manjaree Binjolkar and Apoorva Shastry who voluntarily helped with formatting this issue.

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🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:

• Adaptive Insurance raised $5M to expand specialty insurance products for climate resilience.

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• ECMWF released earthkit version 1.0, providing a flexible set of tools for accessing, processing, analysing and visualising meteorological and climate data.

• Microsoft Research AI for Science released Aurora 1.5, the richer and more detailed open weather and climate model.

• USDA Joint Fire Science Program‘s FY2027 Notice of Funding Opportunity (~ $9M).

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PhD positions:

1. Kansas State U: ML & remote sensing for water resources and wetland systems

2. UIUC: GeoAI & socio-spatial data science

3. 🇩🇪 UFZ Leipzig: 4 PhD positions on AI for flood forecasting, land–atmosphere feedbacks

4. 🇩🇪 TU Dresden: Remote sensing of forest resilience under climate change

5. 🇩🇪 JLU Giessen: Tropical ecohydrology & cloud-water interception modelling in the Galápagos

6. 🇩🇪 TUHH: Hyperspectral remote sensing for soil salinization monitoring

7. 🇩🇪 IMPRS: Multiple PhD positions in Earth system modelling & climate research

8. 🇨🇭U Zurich: Spatial ecology & Earth system modelling of snow and glacial algae

9. 🇮🇪 TCD:

   1. Nature-based solutions for flood adaptation at the catchment scale

   2. Geospatial digital twin for flood risk management

10. 🇩🇰 Aalborg U: Satellite-based drought early warning and monitoring

11. 🇳🇱 TU Delft: Climate change impacts on hydrological extremes & seasonal water supply

12. 🇦🇹 ITU Austria: AI for climate and conservation policy

13. 🇦🇺 Monash U: Climate displacement & disaster resilience in Australia

14. 🇧🇪 KU Leuven\ 🇦🇺 U Melbourne: GRACE data assimilation for global water storage monitoring

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Data Science / Engineering Positions:

1. Internships:

   1. 🇨🇭 Swiss Re (Zurich): Sustainability Risk Intern

2. AmEx (New York):