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Assistant Professor in Soil and Plant Agroecosystem Interactions

Employer
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Location
Honolulu, Hawaii
Salary
Negotiable
Date posted
Jan 27, 2023

The Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor (11 month tenure track, 70% research, 30% teaching) to lead an internationally recognized, innovative, and extramurally funded research program that focuses on integrated agriculture systems with a focus on tropical soils and plant-soil interactions. This position will directly support the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources’ Grand Challenge Initiatives in supporting vibrant tropical and Pacific Island agriculture, food security, ecosystem health, and workforce development. The successful candidate will have a record of accomplishment in applied interdisciplinary, systems-level applications that aims to sustain agricultural productivity, minimize environmental impacts, enhance soil health, and maximize grower well-being across a diversity of cropping systems. The research should leverage both data and experimental system analyses to investigate and understand the integrative properties of agroecosystems at multiple scales, from local to global. Applicable systems may include, but are not limited to crop management systems such as cover cropping, crop rotation, tillage; nutrient management, nutrient cycling (i.e. closed loop systems to reduce off-farm inputs), soil-microbe nutrient relations. The research should address complexity across agroecosystems.

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