Assistant or Associate Professor at WSU

Hiring Organization: Washington State University
Employment type: Full-Time
Job Location: Pullman, WA
Application Due Date: November 30, 2023

Job duties for both ranks

Develop an externally-funded and internationally recognized research program
Publish research in high-impact, peer-reviewed outlets
Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in topics related to forest management and planning, silviculture, wildland fire, and possibly specialty courses in their specific area of interest
Recruit and mentor M.S. and Ph.D. students
Work in a collegial and collaborative manner with other faculty, staff, and students from a wide range of disciplines, cultures, and academic backgrounds
Engage service activity within the SOE and the university, and within the candidate’s discipline.

Required Qualifications for Assistant Professor rank

Earned doctorate in field emphasizing forestry, forest ecology, or natural resource management at time of hire.
Demonstrated ability or potential to successfully teach and mentor students at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Record of research accomplishment, demonstrated by peer-reviewed publications.
Demonstrated ability or potential to establish an externally funded research program.
Demonstrated ability or potential to support, mentor, and educate individuals identifying with historically underserved or minoritized groups and contribute to WSU’s diversity, equity, and inclusion goals in research, teaching, mentoring, and/or service

Required Qualifications for Associate Professor rank

Earned doctorate in field emphasizing forestry, forest ecology, or natural resource management.
At least six (6) years of services as an Assistant Professor or equivalent.
Evidence of teaching excellence in undergraduate courses, and the potential for, or evidence of teaching excellence in graduate courses in natural resource sciences.
Demonstrated ability or potential to support, mentor, and educate individuals identifying with historically underserved or minoritized groups and contribute to WSU’s diversity, equity, and inclusion goals in research, teaching, mentoring, and/or service
Established record of peer-reviewed publications and a record of receiving grant funding as a PI and/or co-PI.

Preferred Qualifications for all ranks

Familiarity or expertise with forest planning tools, including software for optimization of forest management and operations while taking into account environmental or habitat constraints, or remote sensing or other technological approaches that may inform forest planning.
Experience in real-world forest management settings.
Ability to incorporate aspects of research into overarching management systems for addressing complex, contemporary forest management challenges is ideal. These challenges include conservation of threatened and endangered species, restoration of desirable historic fire regimes or behaviors, watershed restoration, and increasing the economic utility of forest materials.

Program Description

The Forest Ecology and Management Program within the School of the Environment at WSU offers an undergraduate major in Forest Ecology and Management, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Sciences and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Environmental and Natural Resources Sciences. Specialties within the Forest Ecology and Management Program include Ecophysiology, Dendrochronology, Remote Sensing, Wildfire Ecology and Management, and Disturbance Ecology. An essential aspect of the mission of the Forest Ecology and Management Program at WSU is providing undergraduate students with a hands-on and a foundational scientific understanding on managing the forests and ecosystems around us.

The School of the Environment supports the current and future mission of Washington State University as a major land-grant research institution. Our teaching, research, and outreach advance understanding of the Earth’s complex and dynamic physical, structural, biogeochemical, ecological and biological systems, as well as the impacts of land use and climate change. Our ~38 faculty, ~100 graduate students, and ~500 undergraduates work together from multiple campuses across Washington state on a broad range of issues, ranging from Earth formation and evolution to present-day processes among Earth’s diverse environments. The SoE brings together undergraduate science majors in Earth Science, Environmental and Ecosystem Science, Forest Ecology and Management, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Sciences, and offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Geology and Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences.

WSU is a Tier I research institution with campuses unified across Washington state. Located in the homelands of the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) Tribe and Palus people, and on traditional Cowlitz, Umatilla, and Yakama Nation lands, among others, WSU acknowledges the complications of regional and national history and their intersection with higher education. We work to increase the inclusion and success of historically underrepresented or marginalized students, staff, and faculty. We are committed to excellence through diversity and faculty-friendly policy action, and to cultivating a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive departmental culture. Persons who meet the required qualifications and are of intersectional identities spanning complexes of race, gender, orientation, mental and physical ability, previous employment, and life experience are encouraged to apply.