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POSTING DATE: January 8, 2021
CLOSING DATE: January 13, 2021
POSITION: Teaching Assistant for ENVS/ ERTH 3601. Global Biogeochemical Cycles: the science of global change. (1 45-hour TA)
RATE OF PAY: According to the CUPE Agreement
DEPARTMENT/LOCATION:  Earth and Environmental Sciences

WORK ASSIGNMENT: The teaching assistant will lead undergraduate students in tutorial sessions covering a variety of topics in biogeochemistry and global biogeochemical cycles, and in processes relating to atmospheric, lithospheric, terrestrial, hydrologic, and oceanic systems. The TA will grade assignments. The TA will also help in organizational items related to the course.

REQUIREMENTS OF POSITION:  Successful applicants must be graduate or professional students at Dalhousie University, in a field related to biogeochemistry and biogeochemical cycles or with undergraduate education in a field related to biogeochemistry and biogeochemical cycles. The TA must have first year chemistry. The TA must be reliable, energetic, and enthusiastic about the tutorial topics, and comfortable in facilitating the discussion of undergraduate students about recently published journal articles in the field.

Applications must include a covering letter and a résumé or curriculum vitae with two references. Applications should be sent by email to:

Shannon Sterling
Environmental Science
Faculty of Science
Dalhousie University
shannon.sterling@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 committed to fostering a collegial culture grounded in diversity and inclusiveness. The university encourages applications from Aboriginal people, persons with a disability, racially visible persons, women, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and all candidates who would contribute to the diversity of our community.