The Quinney College of Natural Resources at USU invites you to join our communications team (Public Relations Specialist II). We are seeking an experienced candidate with strong writing and organizations skills to coordinate internal communication and recruiting efforts. Occasional remote work may be considered, but the bulk of tasks must be completed in-office. A less-than-full-time position may be considered depending on preference.

We seek a Postdoctoral Fellow II in Quantitative Population Ecology in the Utah State University Department of Wildland Resources. This is a two- to three-year position studying the population trends and management of waterbirds in the Great Salt Lake. The goals of the project are: 1) to determine the effects of changing water, habitat, and food resources on population trends of waterbirds in the Great Salt Lake; and 2) to evaluate dynamic and adaptive management strategies for waterbirds across spatiotemporal scales. The successful candidate will use long-term survey data collected by the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Program from 1997-current across 24 survey units with the lake, and remote sensing tools to understand water and habitat change. The focus of the...

The Department of Wildland Resources in the S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University seeks applicants for an Assistant Professor / Extension Specialist in Human-Wildlife Interactions. Key areas of expertise include human-wildlife conflicts, urban-wildland interface, urban wildlife ecology, wildlife damage management, wetland ecology, and similar focuses within wildlife management and conservation. This tenure-track, 12-month position is based at the USU main campus in Logan. The position is 85% Extension, 10% Teaching and 5% Service. The teaching component is expected to consist of an undergraduate level course with a focus in wildlife damage management, human-wildlife conflict resolution, human dimensions of wildlife or...

The Department of Wildland Resources and the Utah Forest Restoration Institute at Utah State University seek applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track Assistant Professor position in forest health and restoration. The position consists of 50% research, 40% teaching, and 10% service.   The appointed faculty member will join and contribute to the mission of the Utah Forest Restoration Institute (UFRI) at Utah State University, a new entity that is being built as a hub to advance forest restoration science and management, to train the next generation of...

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 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 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) (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 (