Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering - Hydrology and Hydroinformatics Research - Professor - 525012

Department
Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Rank
Professor

Position Summary
The Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) and the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama invite applications for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at all ranks, including Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor levels, in areas related specifically to water research. Applicants applying to this particular posting should be seeking to apply for a position at the rank of Professor.

The following areas of research expertise are to be emphasized in this search:

• Large-scale hydrologic observation and modeling using high-performance and cloud computing, artificial intelligence, or remote sensing and advancing the prediction and forecasting of streamflow, floods, drought, and water quality.

• Hydroinformatics, including advancement of geospatial data management, visualization, and analytics, web app tools, and open-source geospatial technologies for applied hydrology and water resources engineering applications.

Detailed Position Information
The Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) and the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama invite applications for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at all ranks, including Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor levels, rank in areas related specifically to water research. Applicants applying to this particular posting should be seeking to apply for a position at the rank of Professor.

Candidates with prestigious achievements in their field and exceptional national and international reputations will be eligible for consideration for significant endowment support through appointment as an Endowed Shelby Distinguished Professor (https://provost.ua.edu/shelby-endowment/).

The University of Alabama has positioned itself as an international leader in the broad spectrum of critical water challenges and issues facing society today and well into the future. UA is the home to a variety of organizations and units that focus on water-related research including the Alabama Water Institute, the National Water Center, the Global Water Security Center, and the NOAA Cooperative Institute on Research to Operations in Hydrology. While all of these water-related institutes and research centers engage faculty from across The University of Alabama, the UA College of Engineering and its departments and faculty play a central and pivotal role in virtually all aspects of this expansive water research enterprise. As a result, there are tremendous opportunities at The University of Alabama in its various engineering departments and programs for new and established faculty members to join our constantly growing efforts in this exciting, impactful, and critical area.

Of particular interest in this search are candidates with research interests in hydrology and water resources engineering relevant to civil and environmental engineering and closely aligned with the Alabama Water Institute (AWI) and the Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH) (https://ciroh.ua.edu). To best align with CIROH and its mission, candidates should possess expertise in one of the following research themes: (1) large-scale hydrologic modeling, hydroinformatics, hydrologic information systems, artificial intelligence in hydrologic forecasting, water data science and analytics, remote sensing and water observing technologies, and applications of hydrologic forecasting in planning, design, and operations and/or (2) hydroinformatics, including advancement of geospatial data management, visualization, and analytics, web app tools, and open-source geospatial technologies for applied hydrology and water resources engineering applications.

The CCEE department and College consider teaching, research, and service as the three critical and complimentary portions of their overall mission. Candidates must demonstrate a clear potential to successfully develop, lead, mentor, and extramurally fund a highly productive research group with significant scholarly impact in a focus area with long term potential to further build upon the rapid rise and great success of the CCEE department and the College. An ability to collaborate with existing faculty in the key focus areas both within the CCEE department and the College, as well as potential colleagues across the campus, is also highly desirable. See https://cce.eng.ua.edu/ for more information.

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