Tenure track job in Rural Development in the Global South @_SLU

Associate Senior Lecturer in Rural Development of the Global South at the Department of Urban and Rural Development The Department of Urban and Rural development is seeking an Associate Senior Lecturer in Rural Development of the Global South. The appointment will be at the Division of Rural Development, at the Department of Urban and Rural Development, Uppsala. The subject rural development is organizationally placed at the Department of Urban and Rural Development, Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). The Department consist of four divisions; rural development, landscape architecture, environmental communication and agrarian history. In addition; the Department hosts the Center for Nature Interpretation …

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Substitute GIS Assistant Professor Position Open at @Hunter_College

The Department of Geography at the Hunter College of the City University of New York, located in the heart of New York City’s Upper East Side, invites applications for a one year appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Geographic Information Science, beginning August, 2016. The successful candidate must have a strong commitment to both undergraduate and graduate teaching and be prepared to teach graduate level Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Introduction to Geographic Information Science; combined graduate and undergraduate level Advanced GeoInformatics and a special topics course in the candidate’s area of focus (for a total of …

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Travel Stipends to attend the 2016 Earth Educators’ Rendezvous #EER

Call for Participants for GeoNeeds Workshop at the 2016 Earth Educator Rendezvous July 18-22, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin http://serc.carleton.edu/earth_rendezvous/2016/overview.html As part of the NSF-funded GeoNeeds project, funding is available to support approximately 20 participants (faculty and college administrators) to attend the 2016 Earth Educators’ Rendezvous (EER, http://serc.carleton.edu)This event will include the GeoNeeds 2-day workshop on increasing diversity in the Earth Sciences. The goal of the GeoNeeds project is to extend instruction in the Earth Sciences at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) or at institutions that serve a significant population of students from Under Represented Minorities (URMs; including 2 year colleges). We hope that you …

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Research & Writing fellowship with The Natural History Museum

Not An Alternative (NAA) is seeking a Fellow to assist with research and writing projects associated with our ongoing project The Natural History Museum –a mobile and pop-up museum that highlights the socio-political forces that shape nature, yet are excluded from traditional museums. The museum’s primary subject of study is the fossil fuel ecosystem–characterized by a complex set of interrelated feedback loops encompassing energy, politics, society, economics, and culture. We turn an anthropological gaze on traditional natural history museums as ideological habitats within this ecosystem. The Research & Writing Fellow will help to compile a sort of “people’s history of natural …

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New Diversity Environmental Fellows Program for Graduate Students

The School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan has launched the Environmental Fellowship Program (EFP). This unique program aims to diversify the environmental and conservation philanthropic sector by supporting the career aspirations of graduate students from traditionally underrepresented groups. The program’s goal is to help develop the careers of a new generation of leaders and decision-makers in environmental philanthropy. Fellows are placed in a 12-week paid internship with a philanthropic organization or NGO. Partner foundations and organizations include, but are not limited to, the Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) and their member organizations. These valuable internship opportunities expose students …

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Spring 2016 Colloquium Schedule

Get the Spring 2016 Colloquium Poster Here   February 04, 2016 5:30 PM WAYNE POWELL – Brooklyn College & The Graduate Center “Geoarchaeological Investigations of Bronze Age Tin Mining and Metallurgy in the Central Balkans.” February 11, 2016 5:30 PM SIMON SPRINGER – University of Victoria “Earth Writing” February 18, 2016 5:30 PM JENNIFER CHERRIER – Brooklyn College “Pollutants in Coastal Waters: Inputs, Impacts and Solutions” February 25, 2016 5:30 PM PETER GROFFMAN – Brooklyn College “Terrestrial Denitrification: A Tale of Misery, Woe and the frontiers of Environmental Science” March 03, 2016 5:30 PM PETER KELEMEN – Columbia University “Emulating …

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