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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in Remote Sensing in the Environment
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">30684BR</span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">Remote Sensing of the Environment
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">The Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">position with research and teaching expertise in remote sensing of the environment. The appointment will
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">be at the rank of assistant professor position and the successful applicant is expected to begin their
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">employment in Fall 2023. Candidates who have strong records of scholarship supported by extramural
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">funding and who have the proven capacity or clear potential to bring externally sponsored research to
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">Texas Tech University are encouraged to apply.
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">The successful applicant will build upon recent hires under the theme “Earth and Human Connections”
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">and demonstrate ability or potential to establish and sustain a strong academic program in Remote Sensing
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">of the Environment. The successful applicant will incorporate the study of human activities and their
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">impact on processes occurring on Earth’s surface and near-surface environments. Areas of research may
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">include human-environment interactions with an emphasis on environmental hazards and disasters, land
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">cover and monitoring land-use change on various spatiotemporal scales, linking to risk-mitigation,
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">resource-management strategies, vulnerability assessment, promoting measures that enhance resiliency
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">and sustainability, and the monitoring and modeling of natural and anthropogenic hazards. Climate
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">change will continue to shape our environment, and linking between science and society to promote
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">adaptation to environmental change is also an important consideration. Scientific methodologies in remote
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">sensing could be in conjunction with fieldwork, experimental work and/or data analytics. The successful
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">applicant is expected to contribute to teaching in the geography, GIST, geoscience, and environmental
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">science programs.
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">Applicants are encouraged to link to existing departmental strengths, which include programs of
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">research and teaching in atmospheric sciences, geography, geosciences and geophysics and complement
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">existing research areas including land-change science, geomorphology, and human-environment
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">interactions. Applicants must explain how they actively promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I)
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">efforts in support of their research, mentoring, teaching efforts: these are important to the department
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">and university, particularly as a Tier 1, minority-serving institution (MSI). Further, applicants should
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">demonstrate how they will contribute to excellence in education for undergraduate and graduate
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">students.
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">Other Information: The Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University offers B.S., B.A., M.S. and
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">Ph.D. programs in Atmospheric Science, Geology (with concentrations in Geophysics and Environmental
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">Sciences), and Geography, and offers a Graduate Certificate in GIST. The University is a Carnegie Tier 1
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">Minority Serving Institution (MSI), Texas Tech University is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), and
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">we seek candidates who have an ongoing commitment to serving our diverse >40,000 student population.
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">Applicants who demonstrate experience in mentoring and teaching minoritized students, leading grant-</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">funded research with minoritized colleagues and students, and proactively seeking opportunities to
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">engage with DE&I in the geosciences, will be prioritized. Service to the department, college, university,
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">and community is expected.
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">Applicants will be encouraged to leverage existing research infrastructure, and to build new resources
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">that enhance institutional capacity. The Department and University support intensive computational
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">infrastructure provided by the university High Performance Computing Center (HPCC); Texas Tech
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">maintains an Esri university site license providing access to the full suite of ArcGIS software for
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">instruction and research; and, an array of physical and computational resources
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D">ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in Remote Sensing in the Environment
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">Opportunities for collaboration exist through the Climate Center, Center for Geospatial Technology,
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">National Wind Institute, Water Resources Center, Health Science Center, Environmental Engineering
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">Group, USGS Water Science Center, National Weather Service (Lubbock), USDA-ARS, Departments of
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">Environmental Toxicology, Plant and Soil Sciences and Biological Sciences.
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">A Ph.D. in relevant or related disciplines at the time of appointment is required. For full consideration of
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">your application, completed applications should be submitted by January 1, 2023. Applications will be
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">continually evaluated until the position is filled.
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">A complete application package will include (a) letter of application, (b) curriculum vitae, and (c) three
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">equally important statements (2 pages each) that describe: 1) research experience and future goals,
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">including a 5-year plan for establishing and maintaining a recognized and well-funded research
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">program; 2) a plan for excellence in teaching that recognizes the value of self-reflective professional
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">development; and 3) a description of ongoing and expected future contributions to diversity, equity and
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">inclusion and how research, teaching, mentoring and professional service may foster and advance DEI
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">goals in the University and our communities.
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">These documents may be uploaded at http://www.texastech.edu/careers/ using the BR requisition
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">numbers 30684BR Assistant Professor – Remote Sensing of the Environment or via the quick link,
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">https://bit.ly/3rG08bg , this position. Questions should be emailed to Dr. Jeff Lee, Search Committee Chair
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">(jeff.lee@ttu.edu) or Dr. Callum Hetherington (Chair, Department of Geosciences,
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">callum.hetherington@ttu.edu). As an Equal Employment Opportunity Affirmative Action employer,
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">Texas Tech University is dedicated to the goal of building a diverse faculty committed to teaching and
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">working in a multicultural environment. We actively encourage applications from all those who can
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">contribute, through their research, teaching, and service, to the diversity and excellence of the academic
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">community at Texas Tech University. The university welcomes applications from minoritized candidates,
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1D1C1D">women, veterans, persons with disabilities, and dual-career couple</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D1C1D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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