<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;line-height:21px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,80,80)">The Department of Biology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for three tenured/tenure-track faculty positions at any rank, beginning in fall 2015. We are searching for creative, collaborative thinkers who use integrative approaches to address fundamental ecological questions at regional to global scales. Our ultimate goal is to enhance our expertise in geographical and aquatic ecology toward predicting ecological and evolutionary responses to global change. The search is open to theoretical, lab, and field biologists working on any taxa. In this cluster hire, we seek:</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;line-height:21px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,80,80)">A <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Geographical Ecologist</span> who studies phenomena at multiple spatial scales toward understanding large-scale patterns and processes. Innovators in biogeography, macroecology, bioinformatics, and global ecology are especially encouraged to apply.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;line-height:21px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,80,80)">An <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Aquatic Ecologist</span> who studies freshwater ecosystems toward predicting the role of changing water supplies on ecosystem services. Innovators in biogeochemistry, ecological networks, ecological genomics, river-reservoir systems and land-water interactions are especially encouraged to apply.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;line-height:21px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,80,80)">A <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Physiological Ecologist</span> who studies the origin and maintenance of ecological traits and their ultimate role in the dynamics of population and ecosystem responses to a changing environment. Innovators studying traits involved in metabolic, stoichiometric, thermal and water-related variation and adaptation are especially encouraged to apply.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;line-height:21px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,80,80)">We are especially interested in candidates who use or combine some of the following three approaches in their work. The first is development and/or testing of models and theory that connect phenomena at scales from local to global. The second is an integrative use of data—from gene frequencies to biogeochemistry, species distributions to climate past and future, functional traits to landscapes—to advance theory and identify novel patterns and processes. The third is a desire to apply this research to ameliorate outstanding ecological problems, including climate change, biodiversity loss, dwindling water supplies, and the degradation of ecosystem services. </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;line-height:21px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,80,80)">The University of Oklahoma is committed to building an international center of excellence exploring the geographical ecology of our evolving biosphere. Successful candidates will join colleagues across campus, including cluster hires in the EPSCoR initiative Adapting socio-ecological systems to increased climate variability. Our shared goal is to build theoretical and empirical bridges across the sciences, to predict the interplay between biotic and climatic changes, and to better steward our natural resources and services.</p><div class="container" style="margin:0px auto;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;line-height:21px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:1104px;color:rgb(80,80,80);text-align:center;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"><div class="section-title" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-transform:uppercase"><h1 class="title" style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:300;line-height:1.2;font-size:38px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:1.1px">HOW TO APPLY</h1></div></div><div class="project-wrapper" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;line-height:21px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;overflow:hidden;color:rgb(119,119,119);background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"></div><div class="container" style="margin:0px auto;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;line-height:21px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:1104px;color:rgb(80,80,80);text-align:center;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Successful candidates will have a Ph.D. degree and a record of outstanding achievement as evidenced by publications. Preferred candidates will have a promising (assistant) or externally funded (associate/full) research program and the ability to lead interdisciplinary, multi-investigator projects across a range of geographic scales. Each individual will be expected to provide excellent training for graduate students and postdocs, and contribute to undergraduate and graduate teaching (one course per semester) in the department.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Applicants should submit a cover letter, complete curriculum vitae, research and teaching statements, and selected reprints/preprints as PDF files to Chair, Geographical Ecology Search Committee, at <a href="mailto:biologyjobs@ou.edu" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(53,108,117)">biologyjobs@ou.edu</a>. Applicants should also arrange to have three signed letters of reference sent to <a href="mailto:biologyjobs@ou.edu" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(53,108,117)">biologyjobs@ou.edu</a> or Department of Biology, 730 Van Vleet Oval, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA. Applicants at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor may submit names and contact information for three references in lieu of letters. Visit us at <a href="http://biology.ou.edu/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(53,108,117)">biology.ou.edu</a>. Screening of candidates will begin <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">3 December 2014</span> and will continue until the positions are filled.</p> <p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The University of Oklahoma is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and encourages diversity in the workplace. Protected veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.</em></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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