University of Georgia Job Opportunities
Assistant/Associate Professor of Natural Capital and Supply Chain Modeling
This is a 9-month tenure track appointment with expected research, teaching, and professional service responsibilities at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia (UGA). This position will focus on the development of theories, methods, and applications that combine economics, operations research, and biometrics to natural capital opportunities available to forest landowners and issues related to the forest-based supply chain involving products, services, and markets within the southern United States. The candidate will help address the challenges of forest landowners to increase profitability, to improve sustainability, and transition to the next generation of forest-based products and services. The candidate will engage with academia, industry, and non-governmental organizations to: (a) investigate opportunities for forest landowners to capitalize on natural capital income opportunities and associated income streams, and (b) investigate broader supply chain issues through research on and modeling of the wood supply system of the southern United States. The candidate would ideally be or become an expert on emerging markets for small and large public and private landowners alike and be capable of applying innovative empirical methods for addressing economic issues of importance to southern forest landowners that involve the production of carbon, water, timber, electricity (solar), wind, mitigation banking, easements, and other ecosystem goods and services. The candidate is expected to collaborate with faculty associated with the Harley Langdale Jr. Center for Forest Business (CFB), Plantation Management Research Cooperative (PMRC), and others across campus.
The candidate will teach an undergraduate and graduate course focused on natural capital. Coursework delivery will be a combination of in-person, hybrid, and/or online. The advisement of undergraduate students and Masters of Forest Resources (MFR) non-thesis master’s students is expected. The establishment and continued support of an active, externally funded graduate research program supporting MS and PhD students in natural capital and supply chain modeling is also expected. The candidate will engage in professional service by actively assisting or leading scientific societies, engaging in the peer review process, and providing service to the Warnell School and UGA committees. This position is part of a cluster hire in the general area of sustainable forestry. There will be an opportunity to collaborate with new hires in sustainable forestry, advanced forest biomaterials, and precision forestry. For more information on these related opportunities, follow this link: https://warnell.uga.edu/careers.
Assistant/Associate Professor of Sustainability Sciences
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Sustainability Sciences at the Assistant or Associate Professor level with research, instruction, and university and professional service expectations as part of a 9-month appointment. Successful candidates will be part of the Forestry and Forest Biology faculty groups but will potentially cut across multiple disciplines, and will be expected to establish interdisciplinary collaborations in teaching and research with faculty in the Warnell School and across campus. Multiple centers and institutes in Warnell and across campus provide excellent foundations for these collaborations including the Center for Forest Business, the UGA Office of Sustainability, the Center for Integrative Conservation Research, the Climate and Society Initiative, and more. Individuals with expertise in the following academic areas relative to forest and natural resource management are encouraged to apply: sustainable forest management, forest certification, ecosystem services, carbon accounting, bioenergy, nature-based climate solutions, policy analysis, or sustainable development.
Research responsibilities include development of an externally funded, nationally/internationally recognized program of scholarship on themes relevant to sustainability sciences, defined as use-inspired sciences focused on meeting present and future needs while protecting the earth’s life support systems. Teaching duties include undergraduate and graduate student advising and teaching courses on sustainable forest management, sustainable development, research proposal development, or other relevant topics. Coursework delivery will be a combination of in-person, hybrid, and/or online. Professional service includes serving on School/University committees and actively participating in professional/scientific societies. This position is part of a cluster hire in the general area of sustainable forestry. There will be an opportunity to collaborate with new hires in sustainability, forest biomaterials, and precision forestry. For more information on these opportunities, follow this link: https://warnell.uga.edu/careers.
