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DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES
Tenure-track Faculty Positions
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences invites applications for two tenure-track appointments at the Assistant Professor level as the first stage of implementation of the Department's initiative in Global Change Science. The Department expects to fill multiple faculty positions over the next several years to develop an integrated, multidisciplinary research and teaching program on past, present, and future changes to Earth, with consideration including, but not limited to, climate, the land surface, the solid Earth, ecological systems, oceans and other water resources, and atmospheric chemistry.
The four focus areas of the initiative are: (1) current and future global change, (2) past global change, (3) surficial and environmental processes, and (4) geobiology and global change. The preference at this time will be for applicants whose research lies within or across areas (2)-(4). As examples, we encourage applicants:
- who develop and/or apply methods for decoding the archives of past global change and who develop theory for their interpretation;
- who conduct fieldwork and/or remote sensing to study physical processes at the Earth's surface and a quantitative assessment of their interaction with climate, tectonics, land use, and the biosphere;
- whose research involves the role of organisms in global change such as, for example, in biomineralization, weathering and soil formation, and biological oceanography. We are especially interested in applicants who use the laboratory methods of modern molecular biology and environmental genomics.
The initiative encourages collaboration with the Schools of Engineering, Medicine, and Public Health and with the Applied Physics Laboratory. Further information about the Department and other programs at Johns Hopkins may be found at www.jhu.edu/eps/.
Applicants should submit paper copies of a CV including publication list; a statement of research and teaching interests; and the names, addresses, and email addresses of at least three referees to:
Kristen Gaines
Faculty Search Committee
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
301 Olin Hall
3400 N Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Review of applications will begin February 15, 2008, and continue until the positions are filled.
Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer; minorities, women, and individuals with disabilities are actively encouraged to apply.
Postdoctoral Scholar in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Johns Hopkins University invites applications for the Morton K. Blaustein Postdoctoral Scholar in the Earth and Planetary Sciences.
We seek an outstanding individual with a recent Ph. D. from any area of the Earth and Planetary Sciences. The successful candidate will be free to pursue his/her independent research interests, but projects that complement our existing research programs will be given special consideration. Information on our department and its research activity can be found at http://www.jhu.edu/eps/
The duration of the fellowship is one year, with anticipated extension for a second year. The position carries a competitive salary and fringe benefits, includes an annual stipend for travel and research expenses, and eligibility to participate in Johns Hopkins University health plans.
Applications are due by February 15th, 2008. To apply, please send in paper format your curriculum vitae (with your email address), names and emails of three or more references, and brief research plan to:
Blaustein Postdoctoral Search Committee
c/o Kristen Gaines (kgaines@jhu.edu)
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD. 21218, USA
Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.
Dr. Peter Olson honored by American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences congratulates Dr. Peter Olson. Dr. Olson, a professor of geophysics and geophysical fluid dynamics who studies the dynamics of the Earth's interior, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was included in the 2005
class of Fellows and Honorary Foreign Members.
The men and women elected are leaders in scholarship,
business, the arts, and public affairs. The selection
of Fellows is a highly competitive process that recognizes
individuals who have made pre-eminent contributions
not only in their own disciplines, but also to society
at large. In the members of 2005 class, Academy continues
a tradition of honoring intellectual achievement,
leadership and creativity in all fields.
Joining Peter in the class of 2005 Fellows are Supreme
Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist; Nobel Prize-winning
physicist Eric Cornell of the University of Colorado;
Steven Squyres, leader of NASA’s Rover program for the
exploration of Mars; Academy Award-winning actor and
director Sidney Poitier; journalist Tom Brokaw; and 207
other Fellows and Honorary Foreign Members.
The Academy will induct this year’s new Fellows and Foreign
Honorary Members at a ceremony on October 8, at the Academy’s
headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Further information can be found at: