Dear Colleague, We are seeking candidates for an assistant/associate professor position in Agroecosystem Management for Food System Resilience at Ohio State University. The position is a collaboration between the Horticulture and Crop Science department and the Animal Science department and is part of the Initiative for Food and AgriCultural Transformation, a university-wide initiative considering the sustainability of food and farming systems.
See below and attached for more information and please forward to any interested parties. Cheers, Kristin Mercer Ohio State University [email protected] ***** Assistant/Associate Professor, Agroecosystem Management for Food System Resilience Tenure-track 9-month faculty appointment in the Departments of Horticulture & Crop Science (60%) and Animal Sciences (40%) in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Science at Ohio State University. Position Description: This is a full-time, 9-month faculty position in the Departments of Horticulture & Crop Science (60%) and Animal Sciences (40%) at The Ohio State University Columbus campus. Responsibilities include research (70%), teaching (15%), and extension (15%). The successful candidate will join a large distinguished team of faculty members from across the university collaborating on the Initiative for Food and AgriCultural Transformation (see more), to develop a comprehensive, transformative approach to food security, part of the Discovery Themes transformative initiative of The Ohio State University focusing on critical societal needs (see more). This position will focus on understanding how agroecosystems function and how management affects resilience in a changing climate at the field, landscape, and/or food system scale in applied plant and/or plant-animal food production systems. Potential research experience and interests may include, but are not limited to: - Multi-factor agroecosystem functionality, sustainability and resilience as affected by manipulation of management practices in the context of climate change; - Factors that affect resilience of agroecosystems, such as how plants, animals, or microbes and their interactions respond to management and climate change; - Understanding fluxes of C, N, and P through plant and animal agroecosystems and the processes that influence them at various spatial and temporal scales; - Multi-year analysis of large scale databases to evaluate agroecosystem functionality and resilience at the farm or landscape scales in response to land use and management.
