DEPARTMENT: Freshwater Sciences Initiative
POSITION: Four full-time assistant/associate professor positions
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NOTES: Priority applications due January 4, 2013
FACULTY
CLUSTER-HIRE IN FRESHWATER SCIENCES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUR
FULL-TIME ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR POSITIONS
The
University of Washington seeks four new full-time, nine-month, tenure track
faculty members to develop high impact research, teaching, and outreach as part
of a new Freshwater Sciences Initiative on the Seattle and Tacoma campuses.
Humanity is facing a grand challenge in the future sustainability of freshwater
resources. UW’s Freshwater Sciences Initiative is intended to enhance our
scientific, engineering, and educational capacity to answer this challenge by
advancing the area of water resource management and conservation, and educating
the next generation of scientists, managers, and policy makers. These hires are a key component of a larger initiative
developed by the College of the Environment, the College of Engineering, and UW
Tacoma’s Environmental Science program to enhance and coordinate existing
research and education strengths in freshwater sciences at UW. (http://depts.washington.edu/coenv/freshwater)
University
of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research and service.
Candidates should demonstrate strong disciplinary backgrounds in freshwater
science sub-disciplines and show evidence of the potential to develop
successful multi-disciplinary collaborations addressing pressing scientific and
societal issues in freshwater resources. Their research records should reflect
high scholarship, the ability to attract funding, relevance to socio-cultural
or socio-economic impacts, and connections across scales and disciplines. We
are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in the following
sub-disciplines: eco-hydrology, watershed/river ecology and restoration,
fluvial geomorphology, urban water quality, aquatic biogeochemistry, and
continental hydrology, although we also encourage applications from other
biological and physical sub-disciplines of freshwater sciences.
Successful candidates will have a strong interest in teaching and mentoring,
especially contributing to innovative undergraduate and graduate curricula that
integrate across freshwater science disciplines. The provision of fresh water
defines the rights and privileges of individuals, societies, and nations.
We are particularly interested in candidates whose research, teaching and
service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to engagement and
inclusion of culturally diverse audiences in the freshwater sciences, and in
higher education more generally.
Appointments
will be made at Assistant Professor or, in exceptional circumstances, Associate
Professor, in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, the School of
Environmental and Forest Sciences, the Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
the School of Oceanography, the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, or in the Environmental Science program on UW’s urban-serving
campus in Tacoma, depending on the background of each candidate. Joint
appointments between these partnering units will be developed to best suit the
interests of successful candidates and to encourage multi-disciplinary research
and teaching. Primary appointments will be made in one of the above
academic units, but successful applicants are expected to closely collaborate
and work as an interdisciplinary cluster.
The
University of Washington provides a wide range of networking, mentoring and
development opportunities for junior faculty and a comprehensive benefits
package (details can be found at http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/benefits/index.html).
A
Ph.D. is required.
Applicants should send the following to freshwtr@uw.edu with their name in the
subject line of the email:
1) Curriculum vitae,
2) statement of research and
teaching interests and philosophies not exceeding 4 pages in length total, 3)
copies (PDF) of three representative publications, and
4) names and contact
information for 3-4 professional references.
Consideration of applications will
begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Priority will be
given to applications received by January 4, 2013.
More
information about the search and the Freshwater Sciences Initiative can be
obtained by contacting the search committee co-chairs Joel Baker (UW Tacoma; jebaker@uw.edu), Dennis Lettenmaier (College
of Engineering; dennisl@uw.edu), or Daniel
Schindler (College of the Environment; deschind@uw.edu).
Individuals
with disabilities desiring accommodations in the application process should
contact the UW Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 (TTY:
206-543-6452).
The
University of Washington is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
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