Assistant Professor  Environmental Soil Scientist

Requisition ID: 2024-8540

of Openings: 1

Location: US-UT-Logan Category: Faculty Position Type: Benefited Full-Time Job Classification: Faculty College: College of Agriculture and Applied Sc Department: Plants Soils and Climate Advertised Salary: Commensurate with experience, plus excellent benefits.

Overview The Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, seeks dynamic applicants with outstanding teaching and applied research experience for a 9-month, tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor (70% teaching, 25% research, 5% service). This primary teaching role will focus on Western calcareous soils, as well as bridging fundamentals in soil science with applied and interdisciplinary fields to find solutions to contemporary environmental and agricultural challenges.

The successful applicant will be expected to build on the long history of soil science excellence at Utah State University (USU) by developing an impactful program that helps train the next generation of soil scientists. Annual teaching responsibilities include: 1) the fundamentals of soil science course, taught with an applied lens; 2) a course on reclamation and urban soils; and 3) one additional course related to their expertise that engages students with regional and/or advanced topics in soil science. The teaching formats will be both in-person and remote delivery to meet the needs of students across the USU system.

Utah State University invites environmental soil scientists with a passion for teaching and conducting applied science in a changing landscape. Land use in Utah has a rich history, from mining to industry and agriculture, and sits on a unique geological and climatological backdrop that creates a diversity of soils and growing regions, resource limitations, and environmental challenges, particularly as the population rapidly increases. This affords plentiful research opportunities and collaborations within and across disciplines, as well as with federal agencies, such as the US Bureau of Land Management and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Applied research programs may address a wide variety of topics ranging from climate change and water scarcity to reclamation of contaminated and salt-affected soils, soil health and fertility, urban soil safety, and sustainable ecosystems and landscapes within arid/semi-arid environments. The Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate presents many collaborative opportunities within the department, as well as through longstanding relationships across the departments of Applied Economics; Biology; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning; Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences; Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences; and the statewide Cooperative Extension system. Related programs and resources at USU include the Center for Water Efficient Landscaping; Institute for Land, Water, and Air; Utah Climate Center; Utah Agricultural Experiment Station; and AggieAir Remote Sensing. Soil science students are active on the USU Soils Team, as well as in professional internships.

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