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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) invites applications for a tenured senior rank position for Director of the new Environmental
Dynamics and GeoEcology (EDGE) Institute. The position will occupy a newly endowed chair and will include a tenured faculty position in one of the departments of CNAS. The successful candidate will lead a diverse group of faculty working in environmental change,
global change biology, paleoecology, earth sciences, and conservation biology over both deep and contemporary time scales. The successful candidate will be expected to strengthen interdisciplinary collaborations, develop new funding initiatives, and become
fully engaged in the research and teaching mission of the institute and the college.</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The candidate is expected to develop an independent and innovative research program exploring the impacts and mechanisms of environmental change
in arid or semi-arid regions. Appropriate areas of expertise include, but are not limited to: geological/geochemical approaches to address the patterns and drivers of climatic and paleoclimatic change, arid land dynamics, desertification or the global change
processes related to arid land expansion, landscape ecology, biogeography or ecosystem ecology in the context of global change.</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Applications must include a curriculum vita, statements of research and teaching interests, a perspective on leadership for a new institute, and
full contact information for three to five referees. All application materials must be submitted through AP Recruit at:.
<span style="font: 12.0px Cambria; color: #2c26f9">https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF00236</span><span style="font: 12.0px Cambria">.</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">For more information about the position, please contact Prof. Mary Droser, Chair EDGE Institute Director Search, Department of Earth Sciences,
University of California, Riverside, California. 92521. E-mail contact: mary.droser@ucr.edu. Review of applications will begin December 15, 2014 and will continue until the position is filled. Information about EDGE and the College of Natural and Agricultural
Sciences at UCR is available at <span style="color: #2c26f9">http://edge.ucr.edu
</span>and <span style="color: #2c26f9">http://cnas.ucr.edu</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The University of California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.</font></p>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">Robert Allen<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
Dept Earth Sciences<br>
UC Riverside<br>
<a href="http://faculty.ucr.edu/%7Erjallen">http://faculty.ucr.edu/~rjallen</a></div>
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