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Assistant Professor of Hazards & Environmental Geography (Tenure Track)
Old Dominion University


Date Posted Nov. 12, 2024
Title Assistant Professor of Hazards & Environmental Geography (Tenure Track)
University Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA, United States
Department POLITICAL SCI & GEOGRAPHY
Application Deadline Open until filled
Position Start Date Available immediately
 
 
  • Assistant Professor
  • Geography
    Environmental Policy
 
 
Assistant Professor of Geography specializing in Hazards & Environmental Geography to begin in Fall 2025. We seek a geographer to teach undergraduate and graduate courses on campus and online whose research addresses hazards, environmental policy, and human dimensions of climate change using innovative analytic methods such as AI. This Assistant Professor will also contribute to expanding offerings in hazards geography, environmental policy, and related applications using Geographic Information Sciences (GIS) and AI.

The position carries a teaching load of three courses per semester. This may include teaching courses in the Bachelor’s degrees in Geography, in the specialized majors in Environment & Resources, Emergency/Hazards Management, GIS, and Urban Geography, and/or in the certificate programs for Hazards & Emergency Management, Environmental Resources & Policy, GIS, and Spatial Analysis of Coastal Environments. The Department also offers offer a relevant concentration in Geospatial Analytics in the MS in Data Science & Analytics, contributes to the interdisciplinary undergraduate, Master's, and doctoral programs in International Studies, and is proposing a MS degree in Geospatial Science & Technology. Opportunities also exist to participate in ODU’s Institute for Coastal Adaptation & Resilience (ICAR), teach in the Spatial Analytics Instructional Laboratory, and collaborate with expanding schools of Public Health and Data Science.

About ODU: Old Dominion University, located in Norfolk, is Virginia's forward-focused public doctoral research university with more than 23,000 students, a top R1 research ranking, rigorous academics, an energetic residential community and initiatives that contribute $2.6 billion annually to Virginia's economy.

Old Dominion University was founded in 1930. In preparation for our centennial anniversary, the institution initiated the Centennial Cluster Initiative, a hiring program designed to hire interdisciplinary clusters of faculty around emerging themes. As the first step of that initiative, we seek to hire 25 scholars who can contribute to the university’s growing research and teaching portfolio in the area of artificial intelligence. Those scholars will be housed in departments across campus and work together on scholarly activities related to artificial intelligence.

 
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