Tenure-track Faculty Positions, Johns Hopkins University. The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences invites applications for two tenure-track appointments at the Assistant Professor level as the first stage of implementation of the Departments initiative in Global Change Science. The Department expects to fill multiple faculty positions over the next several years to develop an integrated, multidisciplinary research and teaching program on past, present, and future changes to Earth, with consideration including, but not limited to, climate, the land surface, the solid Earth, ecological systems, oceans and other water resources, and atmospheric chemistry. The four focus areas of the initiative are: (1) current and future global change, (2) past global change, (3) surficial and environmental processes, and (4) geobiology and global change. The preference will be for applicants whose research lies within or across areas (2)-(4). As examples, we encourage applicants: who develop and/or apply methods for decoding the archives of past global change and who develop theory for their interpretation; who conduct fieldwork and/or remote sensing to study physical processes at the Earths surface and a quantitative assessment of their interaction with climate, tectonics, land use, and the biosphere; whose research involves the role of organisms in global change such as, for example, in biomineralization, weathering and soil formation, and biological oceanography. We are especially interested in applicants who use the laboratory methods of modern molecular biology and environmental genomics. The initiative encourages collaboration with the Schools of Engineering, Medicine, and Public Health and with the Applied Physics Laboratory. Further information about the Department and other programs at Johns Hopkins may be found at www.jhu.edu/eps/. Applicants should submit paper copies of a CV including publication list; a statement of research and teaching interests; and the names, addresses, and e mail addresses of at least three referees to Kristen Gaines, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 301 Olin Hall, 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. Review of applications will begin February 15, 2008, and continue until the positions are filled. Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer; minorities, women, and individuals with disabilities are actively encouraged to apply.
