Asst. Professor Soil and Environmental Chemistry

The assistant professor will lead a nationally recognized soil and environmental chemistry research and education program, providing expertise across agronomic and natural environments. The core disciplinary expertise for this position is basic and applied aqueous and soil chemistry, including topics such as cycling of organic compounds, nutrients, and contaminants, chemical kinetics and carbon-mineral interactions, effects of environmental change, rhizosphere biogeochemistry, and soil health. In their research program the assistant professor will have the opportunity to harness existing departmental, college, and university strengths in agronomy, soils, hydrology, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, microbiology, land-atmosphere interactions, soil nutrient management, restoration ecology, invasive plants, entomology, computer and statistical sciences, and environmental modeling. The faculty member in this position will develop foundational and interdisciplinary courses for undergraduate and graduate students that combine the fundamentals of aqueous and soil chemistry with analytical techniques and data science. The position is essential to building future capacity in research and teaching and growing MS and PhD programs in Ecology and Environmental Sciences. Courses may include Aqueous & Environmental Geochemistry (LRES 555), Environmental Analytical Chemistry (ENSC 4XX/591-003, co-taught), and, importantly, sections of high enrollment ENSC courses, including Soils (ENSC 245), Soil Remediation (ENSC 460), LRES Capstone (ENSC 499R), or complementary (option block) courses in Applied Soil and Environmental Chemistry or Field Methods of Soil and Environmental Sampling and Analysis.