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Assistant Professor - Hazards from climate impacts in the natural and built environment (UPP)

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Position description

UC San Diego – Tenure Track Professor for Interdisciplinary Initiative in Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: Hazards from Climate Impacts in the Natural and Built Environment

New appointments will carry out interdisciplinary research on risk, impact and adaptation associated with climate-change-induced hazards in the natural and human environments. Focused research areas might include:

  1. Development of a predictive capability for climate-related hazards, such as sea level rise, coastal erosion, flooding, drought, and changes in storm frequency and intensity.
  2. Impacts to society, infrastructure, and institutions, such as land use changes, water shortages, human health threats, large-scale human migration and conflicts induced by climate change hazards.
  3. Development of solutions for resilience, mitigation and adaptation; and research on social, cultural, economic and political forces that affect infrastructure and adaptation responses.

All candidates must have earned a Ph.D. in a relevant field. Tenure track applicants are expected to demonstrate a record of excellence in research and scholarship, and a potential to be a future leader in their field. Additional qualifications include utilization of interdisciplinary approaches that would leverage corresponding strengths from at least two departments across campus or with outside entities.

Successful applicants will be expected to teach both graduate and undergraduate students in the participating departments and establish a vigorous program of high quality, independently-funded research. The preferred candidates will have demonstrated strong leadership or a commitment to support diversity, equity, and inclusion in an academic setting.

The level of appointment and salary is commensurate with qualifications and based on UC pay schedules.

Completed applications received by November 13, 2015 will be assured of consideration and the positions will remain open until filled.

Applications must be submitted electronically through the AP-Online Recruit website:

https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/apply/JPF00935

Required materials are: (1) Cover letter, (2) C.V. with list of publications, (3) Statement of research, including strategy for interdisciplinary research, (4) Statement of teaching, (5) PDF copies of three significant publications, (6) Separate statement describing past experience and activities that promote diversity and inclusion, and/or plans to make future contributions, and (7) Information for three professional references, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and email contacts.

Please direct inquiries to climatechangerecruit@ucsd.edu.

The University of California, San Diego has made an unprecedented commitment to understanding climate change impacts through long term global observations and modeling and addressing these impacts through the development of scalable adaptation tools and solutions. We invite applications from outstanding candidates for several new faculty positions. These positions are part of a bold multi-discipline, multi-year initiative that spans the entire University. Each appointment will be made jointly between at least two departments from across the campus in order to facilitate collaborations in new inter-disciplinary fields. They include but are not limited to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), Health Sciences (School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences), the Jacobs School of Engineering, the Division of Biological Sciences, the Division of Physical Sciences, the Division of Arts and Humanities, the Division of Social Sciences and the School of Global Policy and Strategy. The initiative in climate change impacts and adaptation seeks to build on existing cross-disciplinary strengths to understand the implications of climate change and address the planet’s most pressing climate related needs with actionable adaptation strategies. The initiative will leverage UC San Diego’s existing strategic partnerships to inform climate change policy and adaptation decisions at multiple levels - local, state, federal and international - and address issues related to national security, public safety, global health, resilience and more. In addition to these appointments, UC San Diego’s newly established Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation demonstrates the organization’s commitment to addressing the consequences of climate change. UCSD is committed to academic excellence and diversity within the faculty, staff, and student body.

There will be four focus areas within the climate change impacts and adaptation initiative:

1) Human health and climate change
2) Hazards from climate impacts in the natural and built environment
3) Biological, ecological and human adaptation to climate change
4) Sensor and platform development to monitor the changing environment

Candidates may submit an application to one or more of these areas.

For applicants with interest in spousal/partner employment, please see http://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/aps/partneropp/index.html
for the UC San Diego Partner Opportunities Program.

The University of California San Diego is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status.

Application Requirements

Document requirements
  • Cover Letter

  • Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V. with list of publications

  • Statement of Research - Including strategy for interdisciplinary research

  • Statement of Teaching

  • PDF 1 - PDF copies of three significant publications

  • PDF 2 - PDF copies of three significant publications

  • PDF 3 - PDF copies of three significant publications

  • Statement of Contributions to diversity - Applicants should summarize their past or potential contributions to diversity. See our Faculty Equity site for more information.

  • Misc / Additional (Optional)

  • Misc/ Additional (Optional)

Reference requirements
  • 3 required (contact information only)