S&T Opportunities

The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy Program Manager

The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy is seeking a highly skilled and energetic program manager. The person in this position will be the lead point of contact for ACCAP from both science and stakeholder communities in a dynamic and collaborative work environment. More information.

Bard Center for Environmental Policy Environmental Science - Visiting Scientist, Fall 2013

The Bard Center for Environmental Policy has an opening for a visiting scientist to teach a fall semester course in environmental science in our MS in Environmental Policy Program. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching. Ph.D preferred, ABD considered. For more information about the program, please visitwww.bard.edu/cep. To apply, please send cover letter, CV, writing sample (no more than 25 pp.), and names and contact information for three references. Click here to apply. Applications will be reviewed as received. Bard College is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome applications from those who contribute to our diversity.

Bard Center for Environmental Policy Climate and Climate Change Science - Visiting Environmental Scientist, Fall 2013

The Bard Center for Environmental Policy has an opening for a visiting Environmental Scientist to teach an annual fall semester course in climate and climate change science in our MS in Climate Science and Policy Program. For more information about the program, please visitwww.bard.edu/cep. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching. Ph.D preferred, ABD considered. To apply, please send cover letter, CV, writing sample (no more than 25 pp.), and names and contact information for three references. Click here to apply. Applications will be reviewed as received. Bard College is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome applications from those who contribute to our diversity.

Environmental Defense Fund Post-doc Fellowships

The Offices of the Chief Scientist and Chief Economist seek two recent Ph.D. recipients — one with expertise in environmental science, the other in environmental economics — for two-year High Meadows Post-Doctoral Fellowships. The Fellows will work collaboratively with other EDF scientists, economists, and program experts to help develop and advocate science-based, economically sound environmental policies. Each Fellow will work in a focus area, suited to their background and interests, from the range of EDF program work: climate, energy, oceans, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems, and human health. More information.

Paul Smith’s College of Arts and Sciences Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Paul Smith’s College of Arts and Sciences is seeking applicants for a full-time Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies. The School of Commercial, Applied and Liberal Arts is seeking qualified candidates who are effective teachers and researchers in Environmental Studies and related disciplines emphasizing the social sciences such as Political Ecology, Human Geography, Political Science, Social Ecology, Sociology, Ecological Economics, or some combination of these fields. More information.

Two-Year Position in Environmental Studies

The University of Minnesota, Morris seeks an individual committed to excellence in undergraduate education to fill a temporary, two-year position in environmental studies, beginning August 12, 2013. We are especially interested in applicants who have broad interdisciplinary training that spans the social sciences and humanities, including in environmental philosophy, and who can enhance our growing environmental studies major. Responsibilities include a six-course (24-credit) teaching load per year, including an introductory environmental problems and policy course, which is integral to both environmental studies and environmental science majors, and additional lower- and upper-division course in area(s) of expertise. Additional duties may include: advising undergraduates, pursuing a research program that may involve undergraduates, and sharing in the governance and advancement of the environmental studies program, the candidate’s home discipline, and the campus at large. More information.

Postdoc, Agrarian and Environmental Studies, The Hague (Netherlands)

The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) is a leading academic centre for international development studies, and a University Institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). It is one of the oldest institutes in this field, having been established in 1952 by Dutch universities and the Netherlands Ministry of Education as a postgraduate institute for research, education and capacity building. The institute offers a PhD in Development Studies, a 15.5-month MA in Development studies with five Majors, and several post-graduate Diploma courses. Students come from over 50-60 countries. The Staff Group Rural Development, Environment and Population Studies has a vacancy (1.0 FTE) for a Postdoctoral researcher (18 months) in the field of: Agrarian and Environmental Studies (AES). More information.

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