Position Summary: The Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate (PSC) in collaboration with the Ecology Center at Utah State University (USU), Logan UT, is seeking applications for a 75% research 25% teaching tenure track, nine month, full time position in dendroclimatology at either assistant or associate professor level. Research: use tree ring chronologies to conduct and collaborate on transdisciplinary research into past, millennial-scale, climate, and connect to present and future climate. Teaching: mentor and advise graduate students and post-doctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds, and teach one or more undergraduate and graduate courses in the broad area of atmospheric and climate science. Qualifications: an earned Ph.D. in fields such as, but not limited to, meteorology, climatology, geography, forestry, or ecology, with experience in utilizing proxies for paleo climate analysis, with an emphasis on tree ring chronologies
Dendroclimatology (assistant/associate tenure track), Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate at Utah State University. Research: transdisciplinary and collaborative use of tree-ring chronologies for millennial-scale past climate analyses; teaching: graduate and undergraduate. For further questions, please contact search committee chair Roger Kjelgren, [email protected], 435-797-2972 Responsibilities: The successful candidate will conduct and collaborate in transdisciplinary research into past, millennial-scale, climate, and connect to present and future climate. This will encompass development and analyses of tree-ring chronologies in the context of biophysical interactions of tree physiology with soil and atmospheric factors to extract and analyze time series of key properties and coherent patterns of hydrology and climate. Fundamental to this position is working across disciplinary and institutional boundaries to integrate into ongoing research on large-scale climate diagnostics, and modeling and characterizing extreme hydrologic events. The candidate is expected to develop a research program that secures extramural funds and achieves national and international recognition. The individual will mentor and advise graduate students and post-doctoral researchers from diverse backgrounds, and teach one or more undergraduate and graduate courses in the broad area of atmospheric and climate science, and play a role in evolution climate science education at USU. Crucial to the position is articulating the nature, scope, and implications of paleo climate in the context of past, present, and future climate variability to a wide range of scientific but also lay audiences. Dept/College Highlights: Utah State University is the land-grant and space-grant university of Utah. USU is in Logan City, offering the amenities of a college town within the Cache Valley metropolitan zone of 115,000 people. Cache Valley is a 90-minute freeway drive north of Salt Lake City, positioned along the scenic Wasatch Mountains and Bear River Range. The region offers a bonanza of outdoor activities within minutes of campus, and is a day’s drive of seven national parks. Minimum/Preferred Qualifications: 1) An earned Ph.D. in fields such as, but not limited to, meteorology, climatology, geography, forestry, or ecology, with experience in utilizing proxies for paleo climate analysis, with an emphasis on tree ring chronologies 2) Have working knowledge, experience, or training in dendrochronology, dendrohydrology, tree physiology, and climatology with a corresponding publication record 3) Ability to develop an externally funded research program based on innovative and transformative research 4) Experience and interest to teach under- and post-graduate level classes 5) Adept at articulating science within and outside the classroom at multiple scales to diverse audiences 6) Familiarity with other climate proxy data to augment tree ring chronologies is desirable. 7) Additional weight given to those candidates with degree training in climate or atmospheric science 8) Associate professor-level candidates must have a demonstrated track record of international experience and a commensurate level of refereed publications and extramural research funding
