Assistant Professor in GIS/Remote Sensing

Nine month, tenure-track appointment, including teaching, research, and outreach. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. Summer salary may be available.

School of Forestry, Louisiana Tech University

Ruston, LA

Deadline: 2003/08/01

Position: Nine month, tenure-track appointment, includingteaching, research, and outreach. Salary commensurate withqualifications and experience. Summer salary may be available.

Qualifications: Applicants should have a PhD in forestryor natural resource management, or a related discipline, with aspecialization in GIS/GPS, photo interpretation or remote sensing.Candidates should have a working knowledge of ArcView and its modules,ArcInfo and ERDAS as well as digital image processing and GISintegration. Experience with Trimble GPS equipment and software(Pathfinder Office and Terra Sync) is required. Research interests
should be in the area of GIS/remote sensing with an emphasis on naturalresources. Interest in developing and maintaining DistanceEducation/Internet curriculum in Geographic Information Science isdesirable.

Responsibilities: Teaching (70%), Research (25%) and Service(5%). Teach introductory through advanced courses in GIS, PhotoInterpretation and Remote Sensing. Assist with instruction in GPS/GISintegration. Assist lab supervisor with GIS/remote sensing hardware andsoftware maintenance and upgrades. Maintain Distance Education/Internetcurriculum in Geographic Information Science. Seek funding to developand maintain research mission of the Spatial Data Laboratory.

General Information: The Spatial Data Laboratory at LouisianaTech University is housed, maintained and licensed in the School ofForestry. The School of Forestry, which offers Bachelors of Sciencedegrees in Forestry (BSF) and in Wildlife Conservation (BS), has 11faculty and 150 undergraduate students and is accredited by the Societyof American Foresters. The School is in the College of Applied andNatural Science which has 74 faculty, 34 staff and 1660 students.Louisiana Tech University, in Ruston, Louisiana, has an enrollment ofapproximately 11,000 students and is classified as a Doctoral IIinstitution by the Carnegie Foundation. Ruston, located in north central Louisiana, has apopulation of 23,000. For more information about the university see ourweb page at: www.latech.edu. Formore information about the Spatial Data Lab click the Research andTechnology Transfer sidebar on the university web page.

Application Procedures: Submit a cover letter summarizingteaching and research interests and philosophy; a detailed curriculumvita; a copy of undergraduate and graduate transcripts; and names,addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of at least four (4)references to: Dr. James Dyer, Chairperson Spatial Data Lab Search Committee,School of Forestry, Louisiana Tech University, PO Box 10138, Ruston, LA71272-0045; Voice (318)257-4457; FAX (318)257-5061; Email jdyer@latech.edu.

Deadline: Review of applications will begin August 1, 2003 andcontinue until the position is filled, with September 1, 2003 as theanticipated starting date.

Louisiana Tech University, a member of the University of LouisianaSystem, is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer andencourages the application of women/minorities.

For more information, visit: gis-latech.pdf