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This position will use cutting-edge tools to monitor, model and visualize water storage, fluxes, and consumptive evaporative water use across multiple scales to understand and educate on the impacts of federal, state, and farm level water management decisions on water availability, supply, and demand as well as the effects of global environmental challenges, such as climate change, urbanization, land use change, and population growth at the urban and rural interfaces.

This position will also be responsible for teaching and research related to satellite-based remote sensing of consumptive water use and/or advanced mesh sensor networks, ultimately maximizing crop yield by minimizing water-related stress and disease. The successful candidate will have expertise in sensor design, deployment (e.g. eddy covariance flux towers), seamless communication for sharing reliable datasets wirelessly for Information and Communication technology-based research activities, such as unmanned aircraft system, ground robots, and smart farm applications. Located in the Idaho Water Center (Boise), it is expected that this position will work closely with federal, state, and local governmental agencies responsible for water quantity and quality management, protection and permitting in Idaho waterways.  

This position is expected to play an active role in undergraduate and graduate level student recruitment and maintain an active graduate student training program primarily funded through competitive grants.  The position will teach distance learning laboratories and short courses that complement existing courses as well as an upper level water resources management course training students in the use of remotely sensed derived products and sensor networks for increasing water management from field to regional scales.  The class would focus on the integration of point-based and regional approaches for tackling and management water in complex systems (e.g. Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer).  These courses will support SWS, Water Resources (WR), Hydrogeology programs and can be part of the online WR and Soils PSM programs. 

Required qualifications
-PhD in Agricultural Engineering, Soil and Water Science, or related field
-Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills 
-Demonstrated knowledge of the principles hydrologic cycling, plant water use, evapotranspiration, computer modeling and remotely sensed data.  
-Demonstrated ability to work in interdisciplinary teams that include researchers and extension personnel.  Record of competitive grant success commensurate with career level.

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