Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 1992 09:17:59 AKD
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From:         "(john yarie)" <jyarie@FOREST.LTER.ALASKA.EDU>
Subject:      Position opening

Position Announcement

Assistant/Associate Professor
GIS in Natural Resources







Applications are invited for the position of Assistant/Associate
Professor of GIS in Natural Resources, School of Agriculture and Land
Resources Management and the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment
Station, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

This is a full-time (12-month), tenure-track position with an
appointent of 60 percent research, 30 percent teaching, and 10
percent public service. A Ph.D. in one of the following areas:
Geography, Forestry, Landscape Ecology, Natural Resources
Management, Spatial Statistics, or a related field is required.
Candidates must have a specialization in spatial analysis utilizing
GIS technology and a demonstrated ability to investigate problems
related to global change, natural resource management, or basic
ecological principles applied to landscape level questions.

Candidate must demonstrate the ability and desire to plan, conduct,
and publish basic and applied research. Candidate must also
demonstrate the ability and desire to teach two undergraduate
courses in GIS, and develop graduate-level courses and graduate
research programs, over time. The Candidate should anticipate direct
interaction with resource management agencies within the state.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks offers a multitude of existing
research programs and potential new opportunities dealing with the circumpolar
 environment. Existing programs include the NSF-funded
Taiga Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program which emphasizes
the successional ecology of the boreal forest; an expanding
biodiversity and natural areas program; programs dealing with
land and forest management in interior Alaska and programs that
relate to multiple resource management problems faced within
the state. The combination of remote sensing and GIS is invaluable
because of the size of the state and the difficulty of direct
access to much of the land base.

The School of Agriculture and Land Resource Management at the
University of Alaska Fairbanks has an undergraduate GIS teaching
facility which includes both Sun workstations and 386-PC's
all connected to the campus wide fiber optic network. The campus
also has internet connections which provides access to the rest
of the world. The research facilities include additional Sun
workstations and file servers which have access to an ever expanding
statewide database and to the SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)
facility in the Geophysical Institute. Current software for
GIS and image processing includes ARC/INFO Ver 6.0.1, GRASS ver 4.0,
OSUmap, ERMapper ver 3.1, LAS ver 5.0.

The University of Alaska system serves approximately 35,000 full and
part-time students statewide. The Fairbanks campus is the
land-grant institution, founded in 1917, which is the primary
residential institution in the state and provides broad educational
opportunities for nearly 5,000 students. The Fairbanks campus is
also the state's center for research, both basic and applied,
which emphasizes high-latitude and Alaskan problems in such areas
as natural resources management, marine science, geophysics,
biology, environmental science, engineering, and northern
agriculture. UAF further serves as a cultural and information
center for interior Alaska serving a local community of approxi-
mately 75,000. The campus is located only four miles from the
downtown Fairbanks business district and is easily accessible via
the international airport, railroad and highway systems.

The School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management with the
associated Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station is the
state's center for research, education and public service in natural
resources. The educational programs include baccalaureate degrees
in natural resources management with options in agriculture and
forestry and master's degrees in natural resources management and
such interdisciplinary areas as forestry, agronomy, animal nutrition,
horticulture, and vocational agriculture. Facilities at the Fairbanks
campus and a research center in the Matanuska Valley north of
Anchorage provide offices, laboratories, and field sites to support
research programs throughout the state.

Application closing date is November 1, 1992. Send resume, all
university transcripts, a one-page statement of your research
interests and your ability to meet the responsibilities of the
position and have three letters of support sent to:


Lori Schommer
CES/SALRM Personnel Contact
Room 110, Arctic Health Research Bldg.
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-0100
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