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 $5000. 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 the Centre’s Graduate Director (climate.grad@unsw.edu.au).
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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MON04: Inter-event differences in Australia’s rainfall response to extreme phases of ENSO
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation plays a significant role in modulating rainfall variability in eastern Australia. This project will examine the diversity in ENSO, and other underlying environmental conditions, during years… View Article
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UNSWMON01: Building a Human-Labelled Database of Atmospheric Rivers and Tropical Cyclones for AI Training
Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to detect weather features, such as atmospheric rivers, fronts, and tropical cyclones, holds great promise in advancing our understanding and prediction of extreme precipitation events.
The deadline for undergraduate scholarships is September 15, 2023.