Assistant Professor-Estuarine and Coastal Ecology

Assistant Professor Position at Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

The Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) invites applications at the Assistant Professor level from individuals who demonstrate a vision for carrying out novel, innovative, and collaborative research and broadening participation in Estuarine and Coastal Ecology. Researchers with interests in estuarine and/or coastal systems, who are exploring questions related to anthropogenic impacts on estuarine or marine ecological processes, experimental studies on animal populations, coastal resilience, and global change biology, are encouraged to apply.

You will join faculty with diverse expertise in Chesapeake Bay ecology, as well as coastal systems from the tropics to the poles.

We offer outstanding access to field sites in Chesapeake Bay from a range of research vessels or from shore, state-of-the-art running seawater and environmentally-controlled laboratories, and a broad array of instrumentation. Existing ecosystem research at CBL includes work on species, environmental drivers, and anthropogenic impacts, with questions relevant to Chesapeake Bay and coastal Atlantic habitats, but also to ecosystems around the world.

CBL has a tradition of interdisciplinary research and we particularly value researchers with an interest that crosses disciplinary boundaries. We encourage faculty to utilize the Chesapeake Global Collaboratory (CGC) as a facility to develop solutions to environmental problems. We also have firmly established ties providing over a hundred years of service and leadership to regional, national, and international management agencies.

Responsibilities include developing and sustaining an externally funded research program, publishing in leading peer-reviewed journals and contributing to scientific leadership in the field; teaching graduate level classes, mentoring graduate students and postdoctoral researchers through UMCES' graduate programs, and broadening participation in estuarine and coastal science. Engage in interdisciplinary collaboration within UMCES and across the University System of Maryland.

Required qualifications include a Ph.D. in ecology, marine science, or a closely related field; demonstrated research excellence and a strong publication record appropriate to rank; potential for or demonstrated record of securing competitive external funding; potential for or demonstrated record of high-quality graduate education and student mentoring, including broadening participation; and expertise in any field of ecology related to estuarine and coastal science.

Preferred qualifications include interest in conducting a research program that includes the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, with potential to collaborate with UMCES researchers and make effective use of UMCES' and CBL's research infrastructure, including the Chesapeake Global Collaboratory, research vessels, flow-through seawater systems, computational resources, and/or other laboratory and field facilities; and experience working at the science–management interface, and interest in problem-solving.

Entrepreneurial approach for supporting research and education.

This is a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level. It is an exempt, full time 100% FTE position with 75% guaranteed state funding support for salary while the remaining 25% of salary to be externally funded.

Description of UMCES and the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

CBL is situated along the Patuxent River in Solomons, Maryland and is the oldest state-supported marine laboratory on the East coast. As a relatively small, independent research and education university within a sizable, highly respected public higher education system, UMCES offers both flexibility and outstanding institutional support to continue to play an outsized role in environmental research, education, and problem solving.

As part of UMCES, CBL scientists are developing solutions to help guide our state, nation, and world toward a more environmentally sustainable and equitable future.

UMCES is Maryland's Graduate University of the Environment…