Job: Assistant or Associate Professor in Freshwater Ecology at Rensselaer I want to call your attention to a really unique faculty opportunity for aquatic ecologists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
The job ad indicates an application date of May 1, but you can ignore this. The search has been extended to recruit into the fall and to take advantage of our recent growth in aquatic researchers at Rensselaer. This is NOT the official job announcement, which can be found at: http://rpi.edu/dept/bio/documents/BIOL_FAC_AD(March2014).pdf This position is part of Rensselaer’s effort to grow their group of aquatic ecologists and, more broadly, to bring together ecologists with faculty from engineering, computer science, and the humanities and social sciences to tackle very large scale environmental problems. For example, Rensselaer has recently established a partnership with IBM and the FUND for Lake George, known as “The Jefferson Project,” which is a multi-million dollar project that is using an unprecedented array of smart technology to integrate monitoring, modeling, experimentation, simulation, forecasting, and conservation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uARKFSw4ofc What exactly is a Career Development Chair? The job ad indicates that the position is a Career Development Chair, which is something quite unusual in the field of ecology. For example, a productive assistant professor could transition into being an endowed chair when awarded tenure or an associate professor could transition into an endowed chair after a three-year review. This is another major selling point of this position because the successful candidate has the opportunity to transition into an endowed chair position. Rensselaer also maintains a beautiful field station on Lake George, known as the Darrin Fresh Water Institute (http://www.rpi.edu/dept/DFWI/index.html). At the Institute’s Tech Park property, we are also constructing a new major mesocosm field facility this fall. I have recently made the move to Rensselaer to become an endowed professor and I can tell you that the opportunities to collaborate with biologists and faculty outside of biology are TREMENDOUS! Feel free to contact me for more info. All the best, Rick Relyea David M. Darrin ’40 Senior Endowed Chair Dept. of Biological Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Email: [email protected]
