Assistant/Associate Professor, Landscape-scale Working Lands Conservation

Job no

559271

Work type

Instructional Faculty – Tenured/Tenure-Track

Location

Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Campus

Categories

Unit 3 - CFA - California Faculty Association, Probationary, Full Time, Faculty - Agriculture

The Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences (NRES) Department in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, invites applications for a full-time, academic-year, tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor of Landscape-Scale Working Lands Conservation, starting approximately August 12, 2027. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Working lands, including forests, farms, and ranches, are key to advancing state-wide conservation, environmental management, and climate-adaptation goals. Consistent with Cal Poly’s polytechnic mission, the ideal candidate will show a strong interest and ability to prepare our students to serve as future leaders across the diverse organizations advancing landscape-scale conservation on working lands across California and beyond. The ideal candidate will bring innovative ways to expand the lower division core and complementary upper division courses in the Environmental Management and Protection major. The ability to link new courses to the Forest and Fire Sciences major would be considered a strength.

The teaching and scholarship area of the ideal candidate would broadly center on using biophysical approaches at a landscape-scale to address the suite of conservation and environmental management issues facing working lands in the western United States. Relevant areas of expertise may include, for example, biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation and resilience, water resource management, carbon management, or related fields that address conservation and productivity goals across multiple land uses and jurisdictions. Applicants with...