Assistant Professor - Impacts of Global Environmental - Department of Geography

Salary range:
The current salary range for this position is $84,100 - $132,900 (9-month academic year salary); however, off-scale salary and other components of pay, which would yield compensation that is higher than this range, are offered to meet competitive conditions.

Anticipated start:
July 1, 2027

Open date:
July 16, 2026

Next review date:
Friday, Oct 2, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date:
Friday, Oct 2, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications will continue to be accepted until this date.

The Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a tenure-track position in Impacts of Global Environmental Change at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin July 1, 2027. This position will bring expertise in a physically-based understanding and scholarship of environmental change and its underlying processes and how environmental change is transforming the lived experiences of communities.

This position will address the critical challenge of producing transformative scientific scholarship for societally-relevant understanding and action. We seek scholarship on the mechanisms and impacts of global environmental change, such as more frequent and severe heatwaves and drought, altered hydrological cycles and water resources, and land-use and land cover change, although other research topics are welcome. We particularly encourage community-engaged research that co-develops research questions and methods with relevant communities, stakeholders, and rights-holders, aligned with the goals of the search and the mission of our department.

This position will add to the department's existing quantitative strengths in physical geography, contributing to our research and teaching areas in Earth System Science, Critical Environments, and Geospatial Representation. Berkeley Geography has been a center of scholarship on human relationships to the environment for more than a century.

PhD (or equivalent international degree), or enrolled in PhD or equivalent international degree-granting program at the time of application.

The ideal candidate will bring expertise in physical understanding of the underlying mechanisms of environmental changes, quantitative measurements and analysis such as field data collection, spatial statistics, and spatial modeling, and an ability to leverage quantitative analysis to co-produce environmental solutions with local community organizations, stakeholders, and rights-holders.

The successful candidate will have experience with undergraduate and graduate teaching and mentoring, have evidence of strong research productivity and the potential for securing extramural funding, contribute to the department's collaborative academic environment, and advance research agendas that deepen understanding of global environmental change.

• Curriculum Vitae
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• Cover Letter
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