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.

💡📚 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).

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

Data Science / Engineering Positions:

1. Internships:

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

2. AmEx (New York): Manager, Corporate Sustainability, Climate Data and Controls

3. Muon Space: Senior Remote Sensing Data Scientist

4. Stand Insurance (San Francisco): Applied Science Platform Lead

5. Atmospheric G2: Energy Decision Support Meteorologist, Europe

6. Royal Caribbean Group (Miami, FL): Chief Meteorologist

7. EnergyHub: Senior Forecasting and Optimization Engineer

8. USAA: Lead Graph Data Scientist - Identity Analytics

9. NBC Universal: Staff Systems Engineer (C++/Python)

10. Development Seed (Huntsville, AL): Technical Project Lead

11. iNaturalist: Computer Vision / ML Engineer

12. Stellaria: General Application

13. Earthian: Multiple Positions

14. DewBerry: GIS Specialist

15. Washington State Department of Ecology (Lacey, WA): Climate Change: Greenhouse Gas Inventory Unit Supervisor

16. 🇬🇧 Center for Global Development (London): Fellow – Climate policy & development

17. 🇬🇧 National Oceanography Centre (Southampton or Liverpool): Head of Data Services

18. 🇬🇧 Asterisk Labs: Earth Data Scientist

19. 🇩🇪 Sopra Steria (Darmstadt): Copernicus Data Processing Engineer

20. 🇳🇱 SRON Space Research Organisation: Atmospheric Scientist

21. 🇨🇭 Riverkin (Zurich): Multiple Positions

22. 🇧🇪 VITO (Genk): R&D Energy and Climate Strategy - Modelling

23. 🇮🇹 FAO (Rome): Data Analysis Specialist

24. 🇦🇺 Geoscience Australia (Canberra): GNSS Analysis and Data Science Roles

25. 🇦🇺 Transport For NSW (Macquarie Park): Geospatial Data Developer

26. 🇲🇳 FAO: Data Management and Information Systems Specialist

Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. NOAA:

   1. NCCOS: 3 environmental scientist positions for coastal ocean science

   2. OAR: 2 data scientists positions for weather & ocean data science

2. Virginia Tech: Remote sensing & economics for agricultural insurance

3. UF: Biophysical modelling of integrated crop-livestock systems

4. Auburn: Coastal hydrodynamic modelling for oyster restoration

5. Texas A&M: Coastal storm surge & beach/dune hydrodynamic modelling

6. North Carolina A& T State U: Remote sensing & AI for specialty crop production

7. U Wisconsin-Madison: Remote sensing & ML for crop yield prediction

8. 🇨🇦 Western U: 2 positions for hydroclimatic extremes & environmental modelling

9. 🇨🇭ETH Zurich:

   1. 3 positions on climate extremes & heat-health impacts

   2. Forest economics & ecosystem valuation

10. 🇫🇷 INRAE: Thermal modelling of reservoir responses to climate change

11. 🇳🇱 SRON: ML & atmospheric science for CO emission detection from satellites

12. 🇦🇹 IIASA: 2 positions for spatial planning & ecological modelling for conservation

13. 🇬🇧 U Cambridge: Urban-rural political polarisation & regional economics

14. 🇬🇧 UCL: Remote sensing & GIS for African archaeological heritage

15. 🇬🇧 U Bristol: Methane emissions from urban waterways

16. 🇦🇺 U Melbourne: Geospatial data platforms for ecosystem conservation

17. 🇦🇺 Western Sydney U: Process-based modelling of Australian vegetation dynamics

18. 🇲🇦 UM6P: 2 positions on ML & climate modelling for hydroclimatic extremes

19. 🇿🇦 North-West U: Air quality, climatology & ML for atmospheric sciences