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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Faculty Position – Spatial Technologies in Forestry and Natural Resources</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Department of Forestry</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Mississippi State University</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Position</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">: Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Forestry, College of Forest Resources, Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Mississippi State University.
Anticipated start date is no later than August 2022.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Required Qualifications</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">: Ph.D. in Forestry, Natural Resources, or related discipline. Demonstrated expertise in the use of GIS and remote sensing technologies
in forestry and/or natural resource applications. ABD applicants will be considered.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Preferred Qualifications</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">: Record of scholarly publications; demonstrated ability or potential to secure extramural funding; experience in teaching at the university
level; potential to develop a collaborative and interdisciplinary research program; research expertise in areas including collection and processing of terrestrial and aerial LiDAR data, management of geodatabases, and spatial statistics.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Responsibilities</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">: Responsibilities will include participation in the Department’s teaching, research, and service activities. The successful candidate will be
expected to teach campus and distance-learning undergraduate/graduate courses including Spatial Technologies in Natural Resources Management, Remote Sensing Applications, GIS for Natural Resources Management, and a graduate course in the candidate’s area of
expertise. The successful candidate will be expected to develop an extramurally-funded research program in areas such as geospatial assessment of natural resources, precision forestry, or quantification of carbon storage and ecosystem services using passive
(e.g. spectral reflectance) and/or active (e.g. LiDAR) sensors. Opportunities exist for research collaboration with the USDA Forest Service and other federal agencies, state agencies, forest industry, non-governmental organizations, and forest landowners and
land managers.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Rank and Salary</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">: Tenure-track, full-time, 9-month appointment. Salary is negotiable and commensurate with qualifications and experience.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Department of Forestry</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">: The Department of Forestry is one of three departments in the College of Forest Resources and Forest and Wildlife Research Center and
has excellent facilities in Thompson Hall, including the Measurements and Spatial Technologies Laboratory that houses a dual server for large data storage and PC workstations with GIS, image analysis, and statistical software packages. The Department has two
SAF-accredited, </span><a href="https://www.cfr.msstate.edu/forestry/undergraduate.asp"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1155CC">undergraduate degree programs</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> (Forestry and Natural Resources and Environmental
Conservation). The John W. Starr Memorial Forest and </span><a href="https://www.msufoundation.com/s/811/foundation/interior.aspx?sid=811&gid=1&pgid=1379"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1155CC">Bulldog Forest</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">
properties are near the University and used for teaching, research and demonstration activities. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Mississippi State University:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> Mississippi State University is a Carnegie Very High Research Activity (R1) institution, a National Center for Excellence for the
Federal Aviation Administration, and a land grant university that includes the Mississippi State University Extension Service and various facilities and research centers, such as the Forest and Wildlife Research Center,
</span><a href="http://www.gri.msstate.edu/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1155CC">Geosystems Research Institute</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">,
</span><a href="http://www.hpc.msstate.edu/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1155CC">High Performance Computing Collaboratory</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">, and
</span><a href="http://www.raspet.msstate.edu/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1155CC">Raspet Flight Research Laboratory</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">. The
</span><a href="http://www.msstate.edu/web/about"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#1155CC">University</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> is located in beautiful Starkville, Mississippi. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Application Procedure</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">: Screening of applicants will begin January 5, 2022 and continue until a suitable applicant is found. Applications must be made through
the Mississippi State University Employment opportunities website via the following link:
</span><a href="https://explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/en-us/job/503381/assistant-or-associate-professor"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">https://explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/en-us/job/503381/assistant-or-associate-professor</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">.
Applicants should also send (in a single pdf) a letter of application; CV; copies of unofficial transcripts (for all degrees); statements of 1) research, 2) teaching and mentoring, and 3) diversity, equity and inclusion (1 page each); and complete contact
information for three professional references to:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Dr. Heidi Renninger (heidi.renninger@msstate.edu)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Chair, Spatial Technologies in Forestry and Natural Resources</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Department of Forestry</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Mississippi State University</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Mississippi State, MS 39762-9681</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Mississippi State University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion,</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">national origin, gender, age, disability or veteran status</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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