The Utah Forest Restoration Institute (UFRI) in the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources (QCNR) at Utah State University (USU) is seeking a dynamic and motivated Program Manager to help lead our efforts to serve as a hub for forest restoration in Utah. The Program Manager will:• Oversee the programmatic, operational, administrative, fiscal, and human resources management of UFRI.• Represent UFRI to external constituencies, fostering collaboration with state, federal, and local partners.• Provide hands-on leadership and guidance to ensure UFRI’s...

The Department of Social Work at Utah State University (USU) invites applications for a tenure-track, nine-month, appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor. Located at the USU flagship campus in Logan, Utah, this position is part of department, college, and university wide clusters of searches designed to foster interdisciplinary scholarship and creative activity, and to increase curricular and research coverage of areas that reinforce USU’s institutional priorities as a land-grant, public service university.    The Department of Social Work at USU is invested in promoting the health and wellbeing of vulnerable communities in ways that are strengths-based, empowering, and inclusive. We...

The Department of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University (USU) invites applications for a full-time (12-month), tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor in water quality management. The position's responsibilities will be distributed as follows: 60% extension, 30% teaching, and 10% university/professional service. The position will be based at USU’s main campus in Logan, Utah, with a start date of August 2025. We are seeking candidates who will develop and lead a statewide extension program focused on water quality management and collaborate with diverse stakeholders. The position may also involve applied research in support of the extension program. Potential areas of research and outreach include, but are not limited to:

The S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources (QCNR) at Utah State University (USU) invites applications for the Janet Quinney Lawson Endowed Chair in Colorado River Studies.  The successful candidate will also serve as Director of the Center for Colorado River Studies and as faculty in a research, teaching and outreach role in one of the college’s three departments (Environment and Society, Watershed Sciences, and Wildland Resources). The tenure-track position is part of an institutional effort to expand capacity and outreach in issues critical to the Colorado River Basin.    The faculty rank for the position is open. We welcome applications from scientists, scholars or policy-makers with a Ph.D. in any relevant...

The Program Coordinator II position assists the Director in development and coordination of the day-to-day operational and administrative functions of the Ecology Center, including the graduate degree programs in Ecology and in Climate Adaptation Science, which are offered through 6 departments in 3 colleges and currently enroll about 130 students. The position serves as principal liaison between graduate students, faculty, staff, and Ecology-Center-affiliated departments and colleges. They assist the Director with development, analysis, and implementation of the Center's strategic plan; coordinate and create reports for All-Hands and other stakeholder meetings. Duties include but are not limited to management of the Ecology Center website; marketing/advertising of...

The Environmental Biogeochemistry and Paleolimnology Lab at Utah State University is seeking a full-time laboratory technician.  Our group researches the effect of climate change and direct anthropogenic disturbances on aquatic and other terrestrial ecosystems. We analyze water, sediment, soil, organisms, and atmospheric dust samples for elemental composition (https://janicebrahney.weebly.com). This position is for an NSF-supported project examining the composition of dust fall through canopies. The technician may also assist with other projects and work with associated faculty and their students in the Quinney College of Natural Resources who...

The Department of Political Science at Utah State University invites applications for a tenure-track, academic-year position at the rank of Assistant Professor of Political Science beginning August 2025. Candidates should have research interests in the areas of health or education politics and policy. Application review will begin October 15, 2024 and will continue until the position is filled.     This hire is part of a broader cluster initiative examining health and educational disparities across the College of Humanities & Social Sciences, the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, and the Quinney College of Natural Resources. This collaboration seeks to expand and enhance...

The Department of Environment and Society (ENVS) at Utah State University (USU) invites applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor with expertise in the human dimensions of natural resources or conservation social sciences. Possible areas of focus could include environmental decision making, environmental perceptions and behaviors, natural resource management and decision-making, or related themes. We welcome applications from those working across an array of natural resource management contexts. Teaching expectations will include a combination of online and in-person courses that contribute to the department’s curriculum. This tenure-track, full-time academic-year (nine-month) position is based at the USU main campus in Logan. The emphasis for the...

The Department of Environment and Society (ENVS) (https://qcnr.usu.edu/envs/), in the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources (QCNR) (https://qcnr.usu.edu/) at Utah State University (USU), invites applications for a broadly trained scholar in public lands management/natural resource governance as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are especially interested in candidates who are excited to build a robust online and hybrid teaching portfolio from the Moab Campus. We are also interested in candidates capable of supporting the evolution of the Recreation Resource Management degree within ENVS. This full-time (nine-month)...

We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join a multi-institution project focused on improving our ability to understand, predict, and manage above- and below-ground carbon stocks. This work, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS), will be applied to capturing carbon dynamics across space and time in dryland ecosystems of the western U.S. and around the world. This will include the characterization of carbon stocks for key groups of NRCS Ecological Sites and the integration of carbon storage and sequestration into associated State and Transition Model (STM) frameworks (

The Postdoctoral Fellow II will join a multi-institution NSF project focused on predicting the effects of climate change and variability on population dynamics of the invasive annual grass Bromus tectorum across western North America (https://bromecast.wixsite.com/home). Our goal is to determine the relative value of data on genetic variability, physiological tolerances, demographic rates, and interspecific interactions for ecological forecasting at the regional scale. The project combines genetic sequencing with four intensive common garden experiments and over forty less intensive distributed experiments. This position, in Peter Adler's lab at Utah State University (

The Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State University is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow I to assist a team of researchers to better understand how fire might impact erosion and debris flows, including impacts to transportation corridors. The Postdoctoral Fellow will mainly assist by predicting fire severity to improve post-wildfire sedimentation risk models. The position is intended to be for one year, with renewal for a second year contingent on performance and funding.