Employment & Opportunities

Assistant Professor in Environmental Geoscience - Dalhousie University

The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences in the Faculty of Science at Dalhousie University invites applications for a tenure stream position in Environmental Geoscience at the Assistant Professor level. The applicant must demonstrate a record of outstanding research in fields bridging Earth surface processes, human activities, and the Environment. Examples include, but are not limited to, water resources, soil and surface processes, low temperature geochemistry, and biogeochemistry. Candidates are especially welcome who investigate terrestrial and freshwater environmental change related to anthropogenic drivers, including climate change. We encourage candidates whose research integrates field-based surveys and application of numerical modelling of earth system processes. Expertise in geospatial modelling is a benefit.

The successful candidate will contribute to an innovative, interdisciplinary environment and will be expected to cooperate and work with other researchers, drawing on and building research strengths and capacity, ideally in alignment with Dalhousie’s Research and Innovation Strategic Direction, and the Strategic Plan for the Faculty of Science.

Dalhousie University is committed to fostering a collegial culture grounded in diversity and inclusiveness. In keeping with the principles of employment equity and with the aim to correct historic underrepresentation, this position is restricted to candidates who self-identify in one or more of the following groups: Indigenous persons, racially visible persons, women, persons with a disability, and persons of minority sexual orientation and/or gender identity. All such qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Required Qualifications: Ph.D. in the field closely related to Environmental Geoscience. Eligible applicants must demonstrate exceptional research excellence and productivity, the ability to attain external grant funding for their research program and have a strong interest and aptitude for the teaching and mentoring of students. The successful candidate will be a successful early career scientist in Environmental Geosciences and will have demonstrated ability or potential to lead multidisciplinary research teams and establish world-class graduate programme.

Additional Qualifications Desired: Post-doctoral experience, a strong track record of scholarly publications in highly regarded peer-reviewed journals, a history of securing funding to conduct research, employment of cutting-edge field and data analytical methods, and ability to provide quality mentoring and teaching to undergraduate and graduate students.

Responsibilities: The successful applicant will: develop and maintain a rigorous, externally funded research program in science research and mentor graduate students; teach introductory and higher-level courses in areas that bridge core Environmental Science with Environmental Geoscience; ability to teach geospatial modelling is a benefit; and provide inter‐mural and extra-mural service to the University.

Application Instructions: Submit the following information via Dalhousie University’s PeopleAdmin system:

• a cover letter outlining qualifications for the position;
• a curriculum vitae;
• a maximum two-page document describing the candidate’s proposed research program;
• a one-page statement describing teaching philosophy and teaching interests; and
• the contact information for at least three referees with knowledge of your work and/or recognized expertise in your discipline. Letters of reference will be solicited by the Search Committee for short-listed candidates and should not be sent with the initial application.

Assessment of applications will begin on 7th November 2022 and continue until a suitable candidate is found. The appointment will be effective 1st July 2023 or as negotiated. For more details, please click here.

Postdoctoral Fellow in Coupled Biological/Chemical/Physical Ocean Modelling - Susan Allen's Group, UBC EOAS

Susan Allen's group is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow in the field of coupled biological/chemical/physical ocean modelling. The successful applicant will conduct research into the interplay of oxygen stressors in a diverse coastal environment at time scales from seasonal to decadal. They will work as part of our research group developing and using SalishSeaCast (salishsea.eos.ubc.ca/nemo), a coupled numerical model, based on the NEMO model, of the Salish Sea.

The position is for one-year, renewable for a second and third year and preferred start dates are Dec 2022-Feb 2023. Details and application here.

Call for TA applications for MDS and BAIT 580A, 2022W T2 - UBC

We are now accepting applications for TAships with the UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) program and related course BAIT 580A in 2022 Term 2 (January 2023 to April 2023). Please complete and submit the form if you are interested.

The soft deadline to apply is Oct 21 2022. The Term 2 course offerings span machine learning, data visualization, collaborative software development, cloud computing, and more. (If you want to know the exact courses, check out courses from blocks 4, 5, and 6 here.) With the MDS schedule, it is possible to TA for only portions of the term, which may be appealing to those who are not available for the entire term.

If you have any questions about this (or anything related) please do not hesitate to email Betty Zhao at  .

News & Events

MASc Thesis Defense: Frances Jones 

Title: Measuring Enhanced Carbon Dioxide Exchange between the Atmosphere and Mine Waste Derived from Ultramafic Hosted Mineral Deposits

Date & Time: Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 12:30 pm

Location: ESB 2025

UBC, Lectures in Modern Chemistry, October 4th- Dr. Becky Alexander

LMC will be held in Chemistry B250 on October 4th from 12:45 – 2:00 pm. Coffee and doughnuts will be served. The speaker will be Professor Becky Alexander from the University of Washington. 

Title: A Tale of Two Sulfur Sources

Abstract: Sulfur containing aerosols in the atmosphere have a cooling effect on climate and are an important component of air pollution. The magnitude of the cooling effect of sulfur aerosol on climate is dependent upon the abundance of natural sulfur containing aerosol, which is one of the largest uncertainties in estimates of anthropogenic drivers of climate change. We utilize sulfur isotopes of sulfate aerosol and concentrations of sulfate and methane sulfonic acid (MSA) in a Greenland ice core over the last 800 years to quantify the relative importance of the main sources natural sulfur aerosols, volcanoes and marine phytoplankton. We show that natural sources of sulfur are underestimated in climate models, implying overestimated anthropogenic aerosol cooling. We hypothesize that most of this underestimate is due to the absence of hydrogen sulfide in chemistry-climate models and in volcanic emissions inventories. We also show that anthropogenic emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) have affected the atmospheric oxidation of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) emitted from marine phytoplankton over the Industrial era driving recent trends in biogenic sulfur aerosol.

UBC Future Water Community Invitation

We invite you to join UBC Future Waters, a venue for researchers across UBC to be involved in an interdisciplinary approach to water research.

What is FW? Researchers across UBC are advocating for water as a human right, learning the technical details of treating mine effluent and investigating societal impacts of gender roles in water collection. However, we realize that most water-related issues require a multidisciplinary approach. UBC FW facilitates collaboration and community connections for students and faculty, all around the topic of water. If your studies are water-related, we'd love for you to join us. For 2022-23, we will focus on sharing opportunities through the WaterLIST.

Who should join? UBC researchers, grad/ undergrad students, post-docs and anyone interested in water, from all departments across UBC.

How to join? To join, send an email to   with the words “subscribe water-ubc” in the body (visit the FW website for more info).

Check out the UBC Future Water website for more info, or email Karl at . Those interested in joining the WEST Conference 2023 organizing committee should also reach out to Karl.