9-Month Tenure Track Assistant Professor

AAG; Lubbock (TX); In loco; USD 70.000 - 95.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Texas Tech University’s Department of Geosciences invites applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin 1 September 2027. We seek a scholar whose work investigates resource depletion and its physical and socio-economic impacts across scales, with field-based methods and GIS, remote sensing, and data science.

The successful candidate will teach at undergraduate and graduate levels, mentor students, develop an externally funded research program, and contribute to

Competenze

• Ph.D. by start of appointment in Geography, Environmental Sciences, Earth Science or related field.
• A record of publications and presentations in their field, including conference presentations, abstracts and peer-reviewed articles.
• Evidence of potential to build and sustain an externally funded research program through proposals or collaborations.

Mansioni

• Contribute to the department's teaching mission.
• Mentor graduate students.
• Develop a record of peer-reviewed research.
• Build an externally funded research program.
• Provide service to the department, college, university and professional community.

Conoscenze

Publications, presentations

Mentoring

Team collaboration

Formazione

Ph.D. in Geography, Environmental Sciences, Earth Science or related field

Strumenti

GIS

Remote sensing

Spatial data science

Descrizione del lavoro

9-Month Tenure Track Assistant Professor – Texas Tech Department of Geosciences – Physical Geography

The Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University

The Department of Geosciences offers BS and BA degrees in Geosciences, and, Geography and the Environment, MS degrees in Geosciences, Geography and the Environment and Atmospheric Sciences, and a PhD; we also offer certificates in GIST. Our ~35 tenure-track faculty and instructors serve ~100 graduate students and ~150 undergraduate majors. Our research profile transcends the fields of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, with a growing emphasis on societal impact of Earth-systems.

The Geography and the Environment Program offers a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and the Environment, an undergraduate certificate in GIST, Master of Science in Geography and the Environment, a Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science and Technology, and the Ph.D. in Geosciences (geography track). Faculty center their teaching around their research, which is centered around spatial-temporal analysis, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, environmental science and the study of human-environment interaction, providing students with technical skills and hands-on-experience needed to address many of the problems facing our modern society and real world challenges.

Position Description:

The Department of Geosciences in the College of Arts & Sciences at Texas Tech University invites applications for a full-time, 9-month, tenure-track, Assistant Professor to begin 1 September 2027.

Resource scarcity and the consequences of differential availability, distribution and competition for natural resources is driven by factors that may include population growth and migration, consumption, environmental change and management strategies, and has an array of divergent physical, social and economic outcomes for communities. Texas Tech, in Lubbock on the Southern High Plans, sits in the heart of a geographic area marked by both abundance and scarcity of natural resources that impact communities large- to small. Texas Tech is placing itself at the forefront of research and scholarly excellence for exploring ways to make our region and the world more resilient and adaptable in the face of ever-changing resource availability.

We seek a scholar whose research investigates the spatial patterns, processes, and drivers of critical resource depletion, and the physical and socioeconomic consequences across scales. We welcome applications from Geographers whose research methods are rooted in field-based measurements and experiments, but encourage inclusion of diverse methodological approaches, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spatial data science, remote sensing, and mixed methods and qualitative research. Linkages to major federal science missions in community resilience and adaptability, particularly in semi-arid environments and under changing environmental conditions, and the environmental sustainability of rural communities in resource-rich and -poor communities would be advantageous.

Major/Essential Functions:

In line with TTU’s strategic priorities to engage and empower a dynamic student body, enable innovative research and creative activities, and transform lives and communities through outreach and engaged scholarship, applicants should have experience working with a breadth of student populations at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels within individual or across the areas of teaching, research/creative activity, and service.

As a faculty member in the Department of Geosciences, you will be expected you will be expected to: 1) contribute to the teaching mission of the department; 2) mentor graduate students; 3) develop a record of peer-reviewed research; 4) build an externally funded research program; and 5) provide service to the department, college, and university and your professional community.

Required Qualifications:

• 1. Completion (by the time of the appointment) of a Ph.D. in Geography, Environmental Sciences, Earth Science or a related field.
• 2. A record of publications and presentations in their field, including conference presentations, extended abstracts and peer-reviewed articles.
• 3. Evidence of the potential to build and sustain a nationally recognized and externally funded research program as measured by an applicant’s preparation and submission of proposals to competitive scholarship, fellowship and research-supporting funding opportunities, or experience contributing to the development of funding proposals for submission to federal or state agencies, industry and private sector sponsors, or non-governmental foundations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1. Demonstrable knowledge in the geography of resource scarcity.
• 2. A research program that aligns with one of Texas Tech’s current major research themes, which include systems resilience and adaptability, powering our future, advancing One Health, urban & rural development and community resilience.
• 3. Evidence of teaching experience, and professional development to prepare the successful applicant to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Physical Geography, Environmental Science and their sub-field of expertise.
• 4. Participation in mentoring programs and experience to position the candidate to be a successful mentor of undergraduate, M.S. and Ph.D. students.
• 5. Success participation in multi-disciplinary teams to contribute to successful research outcomes such as publications, proposals, or projects co-authored with collaborators from at least one discipline outside the candidate’s own, OR participation in interdisciplinary centers, working groups, or community and agency partnerships.
• 6. Research attentive to spatial scale, place-based context, or comparative analysis in the study of resource scarcity and environmental change, employing field methods and geospatial technologies.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or status as a protected veteran.