Assistant Professor - Landscape-based Approaches to Climate Resilience

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Posted: 14-Jun-25

Location: Ithaca, New York

Type: Full-time

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Internal Number: 3-98082

Assistant Professor - Landscape-based Approaches to Climate Resilience

Faculty Position Available

Assistant Professor

Cohort Hire: Creating a Climate-Resilient Future

Focus: Landscape-based Approaches to Climate Resilience

Department of Landscape Architecture, Cornell University

Position : Assistant Professor, Tenure-track.

Location : Ithaca, NY. The academic home for this position is the Department of Landscape Architecture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, housed on the Ithaca campus of Cornell University.

The Department of Landscape Architecture is seeking a highly collaborative Assistant Professor to broaden and deepen our understanding of landscape-based approaches to climate resilience. Our new colleague will join a cross-college Cohort Faculty Hire in Creating a Climate-Resilient Future.

This hiring cohort will advance the CALS Transdisciplinary Moonshot in Creating a Climate Resilient Future . Research in the cohort will unite existing transdisciplinary strengths at Cornell with critical new competencies to help navigate transitions to climate-resilient futures in three interdependent domains: renewable energy, sustainable cities, and agri-food systems. In addition to this advertised hire, the cohort includes recent or concurrent hires as a geo-spatial analyst, an environmental engineer, a socioecologist, and a risk communication scholar within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

We are seeking applications for a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track position in Landscape-based Approaches to Climate Resilience at the assistant professor level. We seek a colleague whose research investigates the efficacy of ecologically based design strategies and technologies, and nature-based solutions to propose new ways for bringing their biophysical and sociocultural benefits to cities and landscapes. The successful candidate will have expertise in and instruct courses related to any of the following areas: the design of urban environments for benefits such as climate adaptation, soil remediation, carbon sequestration, shoreline stabilization, heat island mitigation, urban agricultural optimization, health and psychological benefits, and/or the social or cultural implications of resilience. Research could involve design of new strategies and technologies in the built environment and natural systems, the complexities of ownership both public and private, questions of spatial and climate justice and/or the potential to incentivize and catalyze their adoption within communities. The candidate has the potential to contribute to and advance the campus as a 'living laboratory' for piloting cutting-edge landscape interventions that contribute to environmental and cultural sustainability. In keeping with expected responsibility distributions in Landscape Architecture, this new hire would have a 70% teaching/30% research effort split and would contribute to existing courses and design studios as well as new coursework related to their expertise.

Outstanding research scholarship is expected, as is excellence in and commitment to teaching, translation of knowledge, and advising and inclusive mentoring of students. We seek colleagues with a record demonstrating success and promise across all these areas, and who will be supported by and contribute to a vibrant culture of inclusive excellence at Cornell. As such, candidates are expected to engage in service and leadership activities within their department, the college and university, and relevant professional societies. We welcome candidates who understand the barriers facing women and other marginalized identities who are underrepresented in the classroom and in higher education careers, and who have experience in equity and inclusion with respect to teaching, mentoring, research, outreach, life experiences, or service towards building an equitable and diverse scholarly environment.

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This position has an effort split of 70% teaching and 30% research.

Qualifications : A Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture is required. An MLA and/or Ph.D. in a similar field would be considered. Interdisciplinary experience in practice or research, and/or design studio teaching experience is preferred.

Applications received by January 15, 2025 will be given full consideration. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Inquiries may be directed to:

Search chair: Professor Jamie Vanucchi

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14850

CALS hiring range for this position is:

Assistant Professor: $90,000 - $130,000

Cornell University offers a competitive salary and benefits package. Support for start-up costs will be available. Salary is commensurate with experience.

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is a pioneer of purpose-driven science and Cornell University's second largest college. We work across disciplines to tackle the challenges of our time through world-renowned research, education, and outreach. The questions we probe and the answers we seek focus on three overlapping concerns: We believe that achieving next-generation scientific breakthroughs requires an understanding of the world's complex, interlocking systems. We believe that access to nutritious food and a healthy environment is a fundamental human right. We believe that ensuring a prosperous global future depends on the ability to support local people and communities everywhere. By working in and across multiple scientific areas, CALS can address challenges and opportunities of the greatest relevance, here in New York, across the nation, and around the world.

Cornell's regional and global presence includes state-wide Cornell Cooperative Extension programs and offices in all counties and boroughs, global partnerships with institutions and communities engaged in life-changing research and education, the medical college's campuses on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and Doha, Qatar, and the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island in the heart of New York City.

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The hiring rate of pay for the successful candidate will be determined considering the following criteria:

• Prior relevant work or industry experience.

• Education level to the extent education is relevant to the position.

• Academic Discipline

• Unique applicable skills.

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2024-11-15