Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Soil Inorganic Carbon Modelling

This scholarship provides financial assistance to a research student to undertake research investigating and modelling the formation, transformation, and fate of soil inorganic carbon (SIC) under varying climatic and land-use conditions, and its implications for climate change mitigation. The project will quantify and model the spatial distribution and turnover of SIC and SOC across environmental and land-use gradients in Australia. The candidate will conduct field sampling in NSW to measure and model SIC stock and investigate the influence of land use across soil types and climate zones. This scholarship is co-funded by the Faculty of Science and the Australian Research Council (ARC) through Discovery Project Grant (DP250103877) for the project 'Soil carbonates: the missing link in the soil carbon budget'. The scholarship provides a stipend allowance equivalent to the University of Sydney's Research Training Program annual stipend rate for up to 1.75 years for Master's by Research or up to 3.5 years for PhD recipients.