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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Environment & Sustainability

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College of William & Mary

Williamsburg, VA (In Person)

Full-Time

Posted 3 weeks ago (Updated 2 weeks ago) • Actively hiring

Expires 7/17/2026

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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Environment & Sustainability College of William & Mary Williamsburg, VA, USA 🇺🇸 The Environment & Sustainability Program at William & Mary, a public university of the Commonwealth of Virginia, seeks applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow position that will begin August 10, 2026. The Mellon Environmental Postdoctoral Scholars (MEPS) program supports teaching, research, and advising in the Environment & Sustainability (ENSP) program (https://www.wm.edu/as/environment/mellon-postdoc/). We seek an individual with expertise in both field and computational methods to examine ecosystems. In this appointment, the postdoc will have substantial amounts of time to focus on their own research agenda. In addition, the postdoc will work with faculty mentors on a project on landscape disturbance and ecohydrology function. The successful applicant will also be required to organize ENSP 250, a 1-credit lecture series, in the Spring semester of their first year and design and teach a new 4-credit natural science with field lab course of their choosing in both the Fall and Spring semesters of their second year, and oversee a 1-credit discussion section of
ENSP 250
in the Spring of their second year.
Required Qualifications:
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in any Earth and environmental science discipline at the time appointment begins August 10, 2026. Teaching experience and enthusiasm for teaching at the undergraduate level relevant to environment and sustainability.
Preferred Qualifications:
Skills include programming (e.g., R, Python, Git, etc.), ecological modeling, field measurements in forest ecosystems, or computational methods to analyze and understand spatial data. Experience in one or more of the following disciplines/domains: ecosystem science, ecohydrology, watershed dynamics, geomorphology, or ecophysiology. Expired
POSITION TYPE
Postdoc
ORGANIZATION TYPE
University/Academia/Research/Think tank
EXPERIENCE-LEVEL
Not Specified
DEGREE REQUIRED
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