Jobs in Geoscience

Company: Equivest Metals

Location: EU or UK - remote

Contract: Full-time, permanent

Salary: £40,000-£100,000

Role: Equivest Metals are building a repeatable discovery process and are at the cutting edge of mineral systems and exploration targeting workflows. Their generative projects cover more than a million square kilometres. They are looking for two geologists with 1 to 5 years of mineral exploration experience to join their team and help unlock the next discoveries.

What you will do:

• Build and test mineral systems models across whole basins, belts and cratons
• Consider different models and geological hypotheses, and decide which ones the data supports
• Work with uncertainty, data gaps and knowledge gaps, and still make strong geological calls
• Use AI tools every day to work faster and extract more insight from geological data
• Challenge the exploration status quo

Closing date for applications is 6 November 2026

Company: UCL

Location: London, UK

Contract: Full-time

Salary: All studentship fees and stipend (estimated as £26,022 per year for 2027/28) and Research Training Support Grant (RTSG) to cover additional costs (e.g. attendance at conferences)

Role: Hydrogeology@UCL seeks a PhD research candidate to conduct research to determine if Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) can be used to detect and quantify near-stream groundwater change and infer associated changes in groundwater-river connectivity in restored and non-restored Chalk catchments.  The position is part of the UCL EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award (UELA) Studentships to undertake fully-funded four-year PhD studentships at UCL. The PhD candidate will be supervised by Dr. Brian Thomas in the Department of Earth Sciences.  

Only home students will be considered for this project.  You should check the UCL requirements for home student status prior to asking for more information.This is a competitive PhD program, meaning that not all projects will be funded.  Please email me directly (brian.thomas at ucl.ac.uk) with interest and a CV prior to applying through the UCL EPSRC portal.  You can find useful application information here.  

Around 85% of the world’s chalk streams occur in England. These groundwater-fed river systems depend on hydrological connectivity between the river channel, adjacent floodplains and associated superficial groundwater storage, and the underlying Chalk aquifer. Restoration schemes across England aim to reverse centuries of channel modifications with the primary goal of restoring natural hydrological functioning. Historically, assessment of restoration outcomes relied on sparse field measurements that provide limited spatial and temporal coverage and lack transferability given variable hydrological and geological conditions between restoration sites.

Consequently, despite substantial investment in restoration schemes, determining whether restoration has altered groundwater-river connectivity remains challenging, creating a need for methods capable of addressing restoration efficacy. This project will investigate whether Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) can be used to detect and quantify near-stream groundwater change and infer associated changes in groundwater-river connectivity in restored and non-restored catchments. Combining satellite observations, hydrogeological and geological datasets and modelling, the candidate will establish methods for assessing groundwater-river connectivity following restoration. Research will focus on retrieval of surface deformation signals linked to groundwater-river connectivity and determining how deformation signals vary across restored and non-restored stream reaches. The research will identify deformation patterns in restored and non-restored catchments, relate those patterns to groundwater storage changes, quantify uncertainty in inferred groundwater-river connectivity relationships, and evaluate the potential of InSAR-based workflows for restoration assessment.

Closing date for applications is 8 January 2027