Assistant or Associate Professor – Forest Hydrologist

About the role

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 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop a collaborative, internationally recognized, and externally funded research program focusing 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 and land management decision-making.
• Integrate field observations with hydrologic or ecosystem modeling of forest water resources, with a strong preference for pragmatic, solutions-oriented, and user-inspired research.
• Engage in Extension activities in their program area.
• Teach two courses per year: (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 (FNR4343 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.
• Support and participate in the CALS Honors Program, distance education, and international education.
• Seek contract and grant funding actively to support their program.
• 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.

Qualifications

• A doctorate (foreign equivalent acceptable) in forest hydrology 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.
• Preferred postdoctoral experience is desirable.