Assistant Professor in Forest Systems

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Assistant Professor in Forest Systems About the University

Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive.

In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

Western’s College of the Environment is the oldest interdisciplinary environmental studies college in the U.S. It is known nationally and internationally for its excellence in educating the next generation of environmental leaders. Its academic programs reflect a broad view of the physical, biological, social, and cultural world.

The College of the Environment and the Environmental Sciences Department support Western’s mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences who are interested in this opportunity.

Western’s Environmental Sciences Department is committed to creating a space for students to value, change, and study the environment. The department offers degrees in Environmental Science at the undergraduate and master’s levels. Students in the program gain proficiencies in applying quantitative and critical thinking skills to environmental issues, writing and speaking effectively to professional audiences about issues in the field, using theoretical knowledge of environmental sciences in real-world applications, and incorporating multiple disciplines into environmental sciences.

We currently have 20 tenure-track faculty who serve about 300 majors and approximately 20 graduate students annually, offering a variety of degrees in environmental science with emphases in environmental toxicology and chemistry, marine science, and aquatic and terrestrial ecology. Many of our students are actively engaged in a vibrant and productive research environment under the mentorship of our faculty and present at regional, state, and national conferences.

Students will often also co-author peer-reviewed publications. The department maintains active relationships with community, tribal, agency, NGO, and private sector partners.

The Department of Environmental Sciences at Western Washington University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Forest Systems. We seek a teacher-scholar whose research focuses on forest ecosystems in the context of…