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Part‑Time Academic Postings ‑ Earth Sciences

Posted by Earth Sciences on September 15, 2017 in Job Postings

POSTING DATE:  15 September, 2017

APPLICATION DEADLINE:  25 September, 2017

POSITION:  Part-Time Academic for ERTH 3401.03 – Hydrogeology for the 2017/2018 Winter term.  The course runs from January 8th to April 10th, 2018.

DEPARTMENT/LOCATION:  Department of Earth Sciences, Halifax Campus

PAY RATE:  In accordance with CUPE Agreement Local 3912

WORK ASSIGNMENT:  The instructor will be responsible for the delivery of course content, for holding office hours and for evaluation of students.  This is a lecture and laboratory-based course.  Detailed class description is as follows:  This course examines the space-time characteristics of groundwater quantity and quality. It includes physical processes occurring in natural groundwater systems and the governing relations for flow and transport; emphasizing Darcy's Law, steady state, and transient flow. It provides an overview of groundwater resource development, evaluation, contamination, and groundwater remediation.

REQUIREMENTS OF POSITION:  Graduate degree in Earth Sciences or equivalent with relevant expertise and teaching experience.  

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE ABOVE POSITION, PLEASE APPLY IN WRITING BY THE APPLICATION DEADLINE TO:

Norma Keeping
Department of Earth Sciences
Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University
norma.keeping@dal.ca

All offers of employment as a part-time academic are conditional upon sufficient student enrolment in the course and approval by the University.

Dalhousie University is an Employment Equity/Affirmative Action employer.

The University encourages applications from qualified Aboriginal peoples, people with a disability, racially visible persons, and women.