Multiple Hires in Earth Surface and Hydrologic Processes (Print Ad, PDF)

The Jackson School is building a premier education and research program in Earth Surface and Hydrologic Processes. We seek outstanding scientists at the forefront of their disciplines who are attracted to challenging areas of scholarship that require collaboration across disciplines and programs. We seek to address compelling questions in surface and hydrologic processes within the broad theme of determining how surface and hydrologic processes are influenced by their dynamic setting at the interface of the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. These questions include:

• How do climate, ice sheets, and tectonics interact to define the distribution and character of sea level change?
   
• How do coastal zone geology, biology, biogeochemistry, and hydrology respond to surficial processes, particularly to sea level change?
   
• What are the impacts of climate variability/change and land use change on water, nutrient, and sediment cycles?
   
• What is the integrated result of the interplay between tectonic deformation, climate change, and biota on the Earth’s surface and on the supply, distribution, and storage of sediments?
   
• What are the physical, chemical, ecological processes and social forces that will determine the sustainability of our water resources?

Over the next three years, we will hire six or more faculty and scientists who complement our existing strengths. We are interested in a range of research areas from quantitative geomorphology to hydrologic-biologic interactions to societal impacts and resource sustainability, and capabilities ranging from modeling landscape dynamics to remote sensing, shallow environmental geophysics, aerogeophysics, and monitoring groundwater and coastal systems. We also encourage innovative scientists in other areas related to surface and hydrologic processes to apply.

Opportunities exist at any level, can include cluster hires, and can be within or in combination with any Jackson School Unit—the Department of Geological Sciences, the Bureau of Economic Geology, or the Institute for Geophysics. The schedule of appointment is also negotiable. 

Ph.D. is the minimum requirement for application. To be considered, your application should note the area in which you are applying (this is the title of the specific ad you are responding to) and include a cover letter, CV, list of publications, list of references, statements of teaching and/or research interests, to:

Randal Okumura, Office of the Dean
Jackson School of Geosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
PO Box B, University Station
Austin, TX 78713
E-mail: jobs@jsg.utexas.edu.

The University of Texas at Austin is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer.