About
The ARC Centre of Excellence Undergraduate Scholarships in Climate Extremes are highly competitive scholarships intended to provide undergraduate students from Australian universities an introduction to cutting-edge climate science research at one of our five universities, or our national partners.
Students should be in their second, third, or post-honours year and interested in pursuing honours or a postgraduate degree in climate science. Scholarship projects may either run on a full-time basis over the summer or other mid-sem/trimester breaks, or part-time for the equivalent of six weeks full time work throughout the academic year.
The scholarships are valued at $3,800 Scholarships are open to Australian and New Zealand citizens, Australian permanent residents, and international students currently enrolled in an Australian university.
If you have any questions about our undergraduate research scholarships please contact Graduate Director A. Prof Melissa Hart (melissa.hart@unsw.edu.au).
Applications for the 2022/23 summer round are now open, please apply below. Applications will close September 16, 2022.
Applicants interested in projects based at Monash University are also encouraged to apply via the Monash vacation scholarship scheme.
Applicants interested in projects based at UNSW are also encouraged to apply via the UNSW vacation scholarship scheme.
Testimonies
Steven Thomas’s investigation into drought started as a six-week undergraduate project and ended up becoming two years of research, conference presentations and more – and that was before he even graduated.
Julie Potgieter was looking for a better way to explore potential careers when an e-mail came through about working on a climate-related research project for undergraduate students. Her project resulted in a first authored journal article.
Projects
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UNSW08: Future Precipitation Extremes in Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS)
Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) are vulnerable to the adverse effects of changing climate, especially extreme weather such as heavy precipitation leading to flash floods. A problem in assessing… View Article
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UNSW07: Drivers of flash droughts in Australia
The student will use multi-source datasets to identify the drivers of flash droughts and quantify their relative role in the Australian context.