Tenure Track Assistant Professor

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.

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.

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…