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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please share with your colleagues, thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">DIRECTOR AND ENDOWED CHAIR,
<span style="text-transform:uppercase">Environmental Dynamics and GeoEcology Institute</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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:.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><a href="https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF00236">https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF00236</a>.<span style="line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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 January 17, 2015 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><a href="http://edge.ucr.edu"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://edge.ucr.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> and
</span><a href="http://cnas.ucr.edu"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://cnas.ucr.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The University of California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> 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.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sherry Gonzalez<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Academic Personnel Services Center<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of California<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Riverside, CA 92521<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">951 827 3997<o:p></o:p></p>
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