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The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) in Syracuse, NY is building a faculty cluster in the Tree and Ecosystem Restoration Program (TERP). This cluster will enhance SUNY ESF's leadership role in addressing tree and ecosystem restoration at state, national and international levels. We are hiring five tenure-track positions in three departments: Forest Biotechnologist & Director of TERP, Plant Tissue Culture and Transformation Biologist, and Restoration Ecologist in the Department of Environmental Biology; Plant Biochemist in the Department of Chemistry; and Arboriculturist/Urban Forester in the Department of Sustainable Resource Management. Successful candidates are expected to participate actively in this interdisciplinary cluster initiative. Full details on this cluster hire are available at www.esf.edu/HR/clusterhire. We invite applications for an academic-year (10 mo) tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Restoration Ecology. Individuals with strong interests in restoring forests in the northeastern United States and beyond through substantial participation in the ESF's Tree and Ecosystem Restoration Program (TERP), an expansion of the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project, are encouraged to apply. We seek a teacher-scholar strongly committed to both research and engaging students in the classroom and through mentorship at the undergraduate, MS, and PhD levels. The successful candidate will be expected to build an internationally recognized extramurally funded research program in forest restoration ecology. Research foci might include establishment and early management of natural or novel forest communities that maximize ecological function, are best adapted to climatic change, or are more resilient to a wide array of modern forest stressors. It is expected that the individual would have strong expertise with above and/or below ground macro and/or micro processes of terrestrial forest restoration; however, applicants with extensive forest wetland restoration experience will also be considered. It is anticipated that this individual, if interested, would have access to blight-resistant American chestnut and other genetically-modified tree species developed at ESF and approved for reintroduction. A strong interest in collaborative research within TERP, faculty in the Environmental Biology (EB) and Sustainable Resources Management departments, others across the College, and with external institutions is expected. The individual is expected to have a significant role in ESF's Restoration Science Center.
