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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://jobs.uncw.edu/postings/17278">https://jobs.uncw.edu/postings/17278</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Assistant Professor - Paleontology<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=4 cellpadding=0 width=0 style='width:546.75pt;background:white'><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Position Title<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Assistant Professor - Paleontology<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>External Link to Posting<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:#23527B'><a href="http://jobs.uncw.edu/postings/15779" target="_blank"><span style='color:#007073;text-decoration:none'>http://jobs.uncw.edu/postings/15779</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Department<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Earth and Ocean Sciences - 32341<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Vacancy Number<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>16F-269<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Position Number<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>1574<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Location of Workplace<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Main UNCW Campus<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Brief Summary of Work for this Position<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p style='line-height:14.65pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>The Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of North Carolina Wilmington seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Paleontology to begin August 2020. We seek an individual with expertise in Conservation Paleobiology whose research integrates paleoecological, paleoclimatological, and geochronological methods, with a strong potential to utilize UNCW’s coastal setting within the Atlantic Coastal Plain in their research and teaching.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Minimum Requirements<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p style='line-height:14.65pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Candidates must have completed a Ph.D. in geology, geoscience, or a related field.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Preferred Qualifications<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p style='line-height:14.65pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>The successful candidate will: (1) be committed to exceptional teaching at the introductory level (e.g., physical and historical geology, natural disasters, environmental geology), including oversight of laboratory sections, as well as upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses (e.g., vertebrate and/or invertebrate paleontology, paleoecology, conservation paleobiology), (2) support the established undergraduate and graduate degree programs within the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences by advising majors and by actively recruiting and mentoring students, and (3) establish and maintain a vigorous research program with a significant field component that involves both undergraduate and graduate students, and complements and interfaces with our emerging directions and strengths in coastal and marine processes and hazards, climate/paleoclimate studies, volcanic processes/hazards, crustal dynamics, tectonics of orogenic systems, and water resource issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Primary Function of Organizational Unit<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p style='line-height:14.65pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>The Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences offers the following degrees: B.S. in geology and oceanography, M.S. and B.A. in geosciences, B.A. in geography, and a Graduate Certificate in <span class=caps>GIS</span>. <span class=caps>UNCW</span> maintains a full range of analytical facilities in support of research including sedimentology, geospatial analysis, electron microscopy, stable isotope mass spectroscopy, aqueous chemistry, <span class=caps>NMR</span>, and <span class=caps>DNA</span> sequencing facilities as well as a dive shop, machine shop, and instrument shop at the <span class=caps>UNCW</span> Center for Marine Science (http://uncw.edu/cms/).<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>College/School Information<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p style='line-height:14.65pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>At <span class=caps>UNCW</span>, the College of Arts and Sciences provides the vital foundation for the university’s pursuit of excellence. Through our teaching, we educate students for lives of fulfillment in the twenty-first century. Through our research, we advance the state of knowledge and creativity in the arts and sciences. And through our outreach, we improve the quality of life in Southeastern North Carolina and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>University Information<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p style='line-height:14.65pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>The University of North Carolina Wilmington, the state’s coastal university, is dedicated to learning through the integration of teaching and mentoring with research and service. Guided by our <a href="https://uncw.edu/strategicplan/index.html"><span style='color:#007073;text-decoration:none'>Strategic Plan</span></a>, the university is committed to nurturing a campus culture that reflects its values of diversity and globalization, ethics and integrity, and excellence and innovation. A public institution with nearly 17,000 students, the university is focused on supporting and enhancing the student-centered learning experience that has been a hallmark since its founding in 1947. <span class=caps>UNCW</span> offers an array of programs at the baccalaureate and master’s levels, and doctoral programs in marine biology, educational leadership, psychology and nursing practice. <span class=caps>UNCW</span> is one of the 17 institutions that make up the <span class=caps>UNC</span> System.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>EEO Statement<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p style='line-height:14.65pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>At the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (<span class=caps>UNCW</span>), our culture reflects our values of inclusion, diversity, globalization, ethics and integrity and innovation and we are committed to providing equality of educational and employment opportunity for all persons without regard to race, sex (such as gender, gender identity, marital status, childbirth, and pregnancy), age, color, national origin (including ethnicity), religion, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation, veteran status, military service member status, genetic information, or relationship to other university constituents – except where sex, age, or ability represent bona fide educational or occupational qualifications or where marital status is a statutorily established eligibility criterion for State funded employee benefit programs. <span class=caps>UNCW</span> believes that embracing the unique contributions of our faculty, staff and students is critical to our success and paramount in being recognized for our global mindset.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Applicant Instructions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p style='line-height:14.65pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Please include the following: A brief letter of interest, statement of teaching and research interests including a list of potential course offerings and plan for actively engaging students in field-based research, a curriculum vitae, copies of graduate transcripts, and contact information (including e-mail addresses) for three professional references. Please address diversity and inclusiveness in your teaching and/or research statements. All materials must be uploaded to the application portal. No emailed, faxed, or mailed materials will be accepted. Adobe <span class=caps>PDF</span> or Word documents are required. Letters of reference will be requested of those candidates who are included in our short-list or invited to interview. Priority consideration will be given to applications received by November 15, 2019, but applications will be accepted until the position is filled.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.65pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>For questions about the position, contact search committee chair Dr. Todd LaMaskin (lamaskint-at-uncw.edu). For questions regarding the online application system contact Human Resources at <span class=caps>UNCW</span>. (https://uncw.edu/hr/employment.html).<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Position Type<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Permanent<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Anticipated Ending Date if Time-Limited Positions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Job Posting Date<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>09/27/2019<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Priority Consideration Date<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>11/15/2019<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Priority Consideration Information<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p style='line-height:14.65pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Priority consideration will be given to applications received by the Priority Date; however, applications will be accepted until the position is filled.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=153 style='width:112.5pt;background:#DDDDDD;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Address application documents to<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td style='background:#EFEFEF;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.2pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans";color:black'>Dr. Todd LaMaskin<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>