Assistant/Associate Professor – Fresh-Water Fish & Habitat Management

Job Description

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is creating an environment that affirms community across all dimensions. This is a 9 month tenure-accruing position that will be 40% teaching (College of Agricultural and Life Sciences), and 60% 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.

Responsibilities

• Focus on freshwater fisheries ecology and management across Florida’s diverse aquatic habitats, including lakes, ponds, rivers, springs, estuaries, and constructed ecosystems. Potential areas of emphasis include fish habitat and stock management, population ecology, ecosystem health, land use impacts, eutrophication, total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) of nutrients, invasive species, hydrologic change, minimum flows and levels (MFLs), and sustainable resource management.
• 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 include: Applied Fisheries Statistics – A combined undergraduate/graduate course offered annually, emphasizing statistical methods and data analysis in fisheries. Builds foundational R skills while covering applied topics such as mark-recapture, CPUE standardization, creel and telemetry data analysis, and GLMs tailored to fisheries datasets.
  Field Techniques for Aquatic Research – A hands-on undergraduate course introducing students to core field methods used in both freshwater and marine environments. The incumbent will lead this collaboratively taught course covering sampling design and methods, environmental monitoring, and analytical techniques across aquatic systems.
  Advanced Topics in Fisheries Science – A graduate-level course developed and taught by the incumbent, focusing on specialized research areas aligned with their expertise. Offered annually, the course will emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary issues in fisheries science. Potential topics include Fish Habitat and Population Ecology; Managing Recreational Fishing Resources; Lakes, Rivers, and Ponds in a Growing State; The Freshwater-Marine Continuum: New Challenges for Coastal Environments and Resources.
• Seek contract and grant funding actively to support their program. Engage in Extension activities in their program area.

Qualifications

• A doctorate (foreign equivalent acceptable) in Fisheries Sciences or a closely related discipline is required.
• Candidates should have demonstrated skills in verbal and written communication, interpersonal relationships, and procurement of extramural funding.
• Candidates must be supportive of the mission of the Land-Grant system.
• Candidates must also have a commitment to UF core values.
• Postdoctoral experience is desirable.