Assistant Professor in Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Response to Climate Change

The Department of Geography at Rutgers University invites applicants for a Tenure Track position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2025. The hire is part of a faculty cluster hiring initiative in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, more specifically in Data Science and AI for Climate Change and Biodiversity.

We seek a candidate whose teaching and research interests focus on the use of Remote Sensing to understand the relations between the climate system and biodiversity. The successful candidate will be able to use innovative approaches in remote sensing of the environment (e.g. AI and machine learning) to study how climate change and/or environmental disturbances affect biodiversity patterns and processes. Priority will be given to applicants whose research programs complement or align with one or more current departmental research strengths (e.g. earth systems science, land systems science, human-environment interactions). We will give preference to a candidate who can help diversify our faculty or draw a more diverse student body to our discipline through the substance of their research and teaching. The candidate will be expected to teach and advise students at the undergraduate and graduate levels in relevant topics such as remote sensing of the environment, spatial quantitative methods, earth systems and biogeography. Interest in innovative pedagogies, civic engagement and activism, community outreach, or new and emerging geographical research methods would be an added benefit. 

Rutgers University offers a strong, dynamic, and diverse intellectual environment in areas related to environmental change research and data science (e.g. Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis, Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute). Rutgers is located in New Jersey, a demographically diverse state. Our student body reflects this racial and ethnic diversity. Rutgers Geography, founded in 1949, has fifteen core and seventeen additional graduate faculty. The department is built on a tradition of critical spatial analysis across the discipline’s subfields and draws from decades of collaboration with area studies and other interdisciplinary units on campus.

Additional information about the Department of Geography and Rutgers University can be found at geography.rutgers.edu.

Qualifications: 

Required qualifications: A PhD in Geography or a related field such as environmental science or ecology. We welcome candidates with postdoctoral and/or teaching experience in a college or university setting in Geography or a related discipline; demonstrated capacity to secure external research funding; experience advising graduate students or preparedness to begin such responsibilities.

Applications will only be accepted via https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/233920

Application materials include: cover letter, CV, a combined statement of research, teaching, and contributions to diversity, two writing samples, and a list of three references. For additional information about the application process, please contact Kelly Bernstein (kellbern@rutgers.edu), Sr. Department Administrator. For additional information about the position please contact Dr Laura Schneider (laura.schneider@rutgers.edu), Search Committee Chair. Review of applications will begin on October 1st, 2024.

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