Texas A&M University at Galveston is an ocean-oriented branch campus of Texas A&M University which educates nearly 2,300 undergraduate and graduate students in a unique blend of marine and maritime programs, including majors in science, business, engineering, liberal arts, and transportation.
It is driving the development of the blue economy in the Gulf Coast Region and is a critical contributor to Texas A&M’s sea-grant portion of Texas A&M’s rare land-, sea-, space-grant mission with nearly $10 million in research expenditures. Texas A&M-Galveston is also home to the Texas A&M Maritime Academy, one of seven in the US and the only academy integrated into a Tier 1 academic institution, which trains over 400 cadets annually for maritime service and employment around the world. Texas A&M-Galveston is ideally located in Galveston, Texas on the Gulf Coast where is it surrounded by the industry, environment and programs essential to fulfilling its special-purpose mission.
The Department of Marine Biology at Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position with a 9-month academic appointment beginning August 1, 2024. Applicants will be considered for the faculty title of Assistant Professor.
This person will study the community or ecosystem ecology of coastal or marine environments by practicing, in part, interdisciplinary research, especially projects within the Blue Economy framework (https://www.tamug.edu/AcademicAffairs/StrategicPlan.html) (as stated in TAMUG's 2020-2025 Strategic Plan). This position will complement the strong base of organismal expertise in the department, with potential to collaborate with many faculty in the Departments of Marine Biology (MARB) and Marine and Coastal Environmental Science. The successful candidate will enhance the teaching and research missions of the department and university. Potential specialties include, but are not limited to, fundamental research in community and/or ecosystem ecology that addresses climate change, ecosystem management, human impacts, or other applied ecology topics.
The successful candidate will be expected to 1) develop an extramurally-funded and productive research program that is sustainable and identifiable to the person filling this position, which will eventually become internationally recognized. While maintaining a distinctive research program, the person filling this position will also practice interdisciplinary research. The program will support undergraduate research scholars, graduate students, and postdocs, in addition to being well-connected with other programs within MARB, across TAMUG and with the main campus. 2) Teach in the department’s undergraduate curricula and offer a graduate class specific to the person’s expertise with a teaching load of one course per semester (fall, spring). Potential undergraduate courses may include, but are not limited to, Conservation Biology, Marine Ecology, and Coastal Plant Ecology. 3) Provide service to MARB department in the form of committee memberships, while remaining engaged with discipline-specific scientific societies.
Qualifications
Required qualifications: PhD in biology, ecology, marine biology, marine science, biological oceanography or related fields
Preferred qualifications: postdoctoral or other related job experience; and a strong publication record.
