I would like to welcome you to the South-East Region of the Alaska Section. Please "surf" through our information resources on the World Wide Web (WWW). Our meetings are held September through March and our annual state meeting is held in April of each year. The south-east region membership includes faculty, staff, and students of the University of Alaska Juneau, federal and state government, and private industry water-resource professionals. We hope you can come and bring a colleague!
Applications are solicited for a tenure track assistant professor with a nine month, full-time appointment in the Faculty of Math and Science beginning August 1998. Applicants with a background and research interest in the role of fluids in surface and near surface crustal environments are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants for this position should have a Ph.D. in geology or related field. Courses taught by the applicant are part of a curriculum leading to a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Science. The successful candidate will be expected to teach an introductory hydrology course, participate in advising students with their senior theses and internship work, and team teach a senior level environmental science seminar. The applicant must be able to advise undergraduates in research programs in at least one of the following areas; groundwater or fluvial hydrology, glaciology, paleoenvironmental studies, the impacts of mining on fluvial and groundwater systems, and the effects of increased urbanization and tourism on a temperate rainforest environment, watershed management, etc. Opportunities exist for grant-funded research during the summer months. Cooperative agreements with researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus are encouraged. The University of Alaska Southeast is a regional campus in the University of Alaska system with an enrollment of approximately 700 full-time and 1100 part-time students during the Fall Semester 1997. The environmental Science Degree Program was approved in spring of 1997 by the University of Alaska Board of Regents and has begun accepting majors during Fall 97 semester. The science and mathematics degrees offered at the Juneau Campus include B.S. in Environmental Science, B.S. in Biology, B.S. in Biology with Marine Biology emphasis, and a Bachelor of Liberal Arts with emphasis in mathematics. There are presently ten members of the Science and Mathematics Faculty on the Juneau Campus and an additional 4 members on the Sitka and Ketchikan satellite campuses.
Interested persons should send a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, transcripts, abstract of current research, one page summary of teaching philosophy and 3 letters of recommendation to:
Closing date is January 16, 1998
Personnel Office
University of Alaska Southeast
11120 Glacier Highway
Juneau, Alaska 99801-8675
1998-99 South-East Region Brown-Bag Meetings
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