Assistant or Associate Professor Forest Hydrologist

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Ast/Aso Prof

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Candidates for this rank shall hold the highest degree appropriate to their field. A candidate shall be expected to demonstrate successful experience pertinent to the position they are being recommended and have demonstrated qualities relevant to the goals of the academic unit in which they will be employed.

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This is a 9-month tenure-accruing position that will be 30% teaching (College of Agricultural and Life Sciences) and 70% research (Florida Agricultural Experiment Station), available in the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatic Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, at the University of Florida. This assignment may change in accordance with the needs of the unit.

Duties will include research and teaching relating to forest hydrology
. Research duties include developing a collaborative, internationally recognized, and externally funded research program. The program will focus on understanding and predicting forest management influences on water quality and quantity across scales including private and publicly owned forest lands in the southeastern US and beyond, with an emphasis on the interface between water resources (e.g., streams, wetlands, aquifers, springs) and land management decision‑making.

The program should integrate field observations with hydrologic or ecosystem modelling of forest water resources, with a strong preference for pragmatic, solutions‑oriented, and user‑inspired research. Tenure will accrue in the School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatic Sciences (SFFGS). The faculty member will seek contract and grant funding actively to support their program. The faculty member will engage in Extension activities in their program area.

The successful candidate will engage in scholarly activities related to instruction, including teaching undergraduate and/or graduate courses, advising and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, participating in curriculum revision and enhancement, seeking funding for the teaching program, supervising undergraduate and graduate research and creative work, publishing teaching‑related scholarship, producing learning tools, and engaging in professional development activities related to teaching and advising.

Teaching responsibilities will be two courses per year, including: (1) a required undergraduate course in forest hydrology/water resources, taken by seniors majoring in forestry as well as other students with interests in the subject (FNR
4343 Forest Water Resources) and, (2) a graduate‑level course in forest hydrology, hydric soils, wetland ecology, or similar, depending on candidate expertise and interest, to be chosen by the candidate in coordination with the graduate program committee. Faculty are encouraged to support and participate in the CALS Honors Program, distance education, and international education.

Because of the IFAS land‑grant mission, all faculty are expected to be supportive of and engaged in all three mission areas—Research, Teaching and Extension—regardless of the assignment split specified in the position description.

The School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences (SFFGS) has teaching, research, and Extension education programs in three broad areas:
Geomatics;
Forest Resources and Conservation; and Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. The SFFGS has 70 faculty members, 60 administrative and programmatic staff, 250 graduate students, and 350 undergraduate students. The School offers bachelor’s degrees in Geomatics, Forest Resources and Conservation, Natural Resource Conservation, and Marine Sciences; thesis and non‑thesis master’s degrees in all focal areas, including a number of innovative distance‑education master’s programs;

and Ph.D. degrees in all focal areas. The School is committed to supporting…