Jobs:Job-00211
Start reviewing process: 24 September 2020
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Position: Postdoc position
Start reviewing process: 24 September 2020
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Many coastal regions of the world have entered a critical period when multiple pressures threaten water security, defined as the capacity of society to safeguard adequate, sustainable quantities of high-quality water. In Delaware, threats to water security relate primarily to water quality rather than quantity and arise largely due to human behavior-whether from excess nutrients from agriculture and households, increased salinity due to groundwater pumping and sea-level rise, or degradation of ecological systems from an expanding human footprint. Thus, improving water security is fundamentally about making better decisions, based on clear scientific understanding, reliable methods and models for predicting future outcomes, improved technologies, and evidence-based policies and programs that cost-effectively invoke positive behavioral change. This project aims to assess major threats to Delaware’s water quality and to develop viable technological and policy solutions for meeting the challenges imposed by them. In Delaware and across the globe, threats to water security negatively affect human health, ecosystem function, and critical economic sectors, such as tourism or agriculture.
Newark, Delaware offers a moderate cost of living, and is ideally situated on the mid-Atlantic coast, about halfway between New York and Washington, DC.
The University of Delaware holds diversity, equity, and inclusion as important values. We view diversity broadly, including but not limited to an individual's race, age, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, disability status, beliefs, and culture, as well as how those identities intersect. Supporting diversity in our faculty, student body, and staff, as well as valuing and respecting diversity in our teaching, research, and service represent important priorities that contribute to the strength of our community. We encourage the open exchange of ideas from a variety of viewpoints in an environment of respect, collaboration, and fairness. We promote the principles of equity and inclusion through recruitment and retention, graduate training, research, service and teaching, as well as through open and productive dialogue.
