Subject: Two tenure-track GIS positions at Clark University
MASSACHUSETTS, WORCESTER Clark University. Tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting August 2012. PhD required at time of appointment. Clark's Graduate School of Geography seeks a scholar with expertise in GIScience with research links to Earth Systems Science (ESS) (see http://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/). We seek a faculty member to join our internationally recognized cluster in GIScience and further strengthen its links with the School's ESS concentration in the Environmental Science major at Clark. Applicants are expected to engage in cutting edge scholarship in GIScience and to be committed to securing extramural funding and team-based activities to support our research program. All facets of GIScience and Remote Sensing will be considered, with particular interest in linkages to Earth Observation Information Science, Climate Change and Modeling, Forest Ecology and Land Use Change. In the "university college" tradition of Clark, the successful applicant will teach, mentor and advise undergraduate and PhD students, and students in Clark's MA GIScience program, as well as MA in GIS for Development and Environment (GISDE) program http://www.clarku.edu/departments/idce/programs/gisde/. Send CV, a detailed statement of professional experience and research and teaching interests, and contact information for three references by email to: [email protected]. Evaluation of applications begins on October 31st 2011. Clark University is committed to diversity and encourages applications from women and minorities. Affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. MASSACHUSETTS, WORCESTER Tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting August 2012. PhD required at time of appointment. Clark University's Department of International Development, Community, and Environment (IDCE) seeks a scholar with expertise in GIScience, spatial database management, and visualization. Candidates must have very strong technical GIS skills and a record of research using GIS for practical applications. Desirable areas of application include but are not limited to food security, humanitarian assistance, and sustainability. Major responsibilities will include teaching core technical courses in GIS (including advanced GIS, spatial database development, programming for GIS, web mapping, and open source GIS), developing applied GIS course(s) in the successful candidate's area of specialty, and advising students in Clark's Master of Arts program in GIS for Development and Environment (GISDE - http://www.clarku.edu/departments/idce/programs/gisde/default.html). Applicants must show commitment to working collaboratively with faculty from the other three programs within the IDCE Department. In addition, we would anticipate the successful candidate to make connections with other Clark departments, most particularly with GIS-focused faculty members in Clark's Graduate School of Geography and at Clark Labs. Apply: Send CV, a detailed statement of professional experience and research and teaching interests, and contact information for three references to [email protected]. Evaluation of applications begins on October 31st 2011. Clark University is committed to diversity and encourages applications from women and minorities. Affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. -- -- Steven M. Manson Department of Geography University of Minnesota 414 Social Sciences 267 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA 612 625 4577 612 624 1044 (fax) Home page: umn.edu/~manson Human-Environment GIS Lab: hegis.umn.edu
