Positions: Instructor or visiting professor, commensurate with qualifications.
Position 1 duties: Teach a senior level course in conservation biology to fisheries and wildlife science majors. Most enrollees will have had courses in fish and wildlife management, population ecology and habitat ecology, and will be co-enrolled in a course in fish and wildlife human dimensions. Most recent text book was Groom et al., Principles of Conservation Biology. Position 2 duties: Teach a junior-level course in fisheries techniques. This is a field and laboratory-oriented course aimed at students learning the fish collection, data collection and analytic techniques underlying practical fisheries management. Desired qualifications: Earned Ph.D. in fisheries and wildlife sciences, conservation biology, or related disciplines. Teaching experience desired. Fall semester classes begin August 23rd. These are one-semester positions, subject to final funding, which is expected imminently. Contacts: Conservation Biology: James D. Fraser, [email protected]. Fisheries Techniques, Eric M. Hallerman, [email protected], Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0321.
