Job Title
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Agency
Texas A&M Agrilife Research
Department
Rangeland, Wildlife & Fisheries Management
Proposed Minimum Salary
$5,000.00 monthly
Job Location
College Station, Texas
Job Type
Staff
Job Description
Texas A&M AgriLife is comprised of the following Texas A&M University System members:
As thenation'slargestmostcomprehensive agriculture program, Texas A&M AgriLife brings together a college and four state agencies focused on agriculture and life sciences within The Texas A&M University System.With over 5,000 employees and a presence in every county across the state, Texas A&M AgriLife is uniquely positioned to improve lives, environments and the Texas economy through education, research, extension and service.
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PositionInformation
Responsibilities:
Research (Primary Role)
- Develop and implement a spatially explicit methodology for characterizing and prioritizing private working lands based on flood mitigation potential and landconversion risk.
- Support creation of a Texas Coastal Prairie value-risk prioritization map to guide conservation investments.
- Design, administer, and analyze a landowner survey grounded in Protection Motivation Theory and participatory GIS (PPGIS) to assess landowner perceptions, values, and willingness to engage in conservation programs.
- Key role in helping ensure the effective translation of prioritization maps into on-the-ground stewardship, restoration, and conservation outcomes.
Extension & Outreach (Secondary Role)
- Support facilitation of community workshops with landowners, conservation partners, and local decisionmakers to coproduce knowledge and identify conservation pathways.
- Contribute to the development of a decisionsupport toolkit, including interactive maps, a dichotomous key for land evaluation, successstory dashboards, and decisionpathway tools for conservation opportunities.
- Assist in delivering trainthetrainer workshops for conservation leaders using toolkit resources and project findings.
Required Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in natural resources, geography, ecology, environmental science, agricultural economics, or a closely related field.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with survey design methodologies and software.
- Strong quantitative and mixedmethods skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent communication skills and public engagement experience.
- Experience with ecosystem services modeling or floodrisk assessment.
- Familiarity with rural or private landowner engagement, survey design, or communitybased research.
- Knowledge of conservation easements, openspace valuation, or landstewardship programs relevant to Texas working lands.
- Experience collaborating with multistakeholder teams (e.g., land trusts, Extension, state agencies).
Position Funding: This position is grant funded and availability is contingent on grant funding.
Why Work at Texas A&M AgriLife?
When you choose toworkfor Texas A&M AgriLife, you become part of an organization that is an established leader in agriculture and life sciences with a wide range of capabilities to meet the needs of our statewide, national, and international constituents.
In addition, Texas A&M AgriLife offers a comprehensive benefit packageincluding the following:
Health, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurancewith Texas A&M AgriLife contributing to employee health and basic life premiums
Applications received by Texas A&MAgriLifemust either have all job application data entered or a resume attached. Failure to provide all job application data or a complete resume could result in an invalid submission and a rejected application. We encourage all applicants to upload a resume or use a LinkedIn profile to prepopulate the online application.Any questions, please contact Dr. Gerard Kyle @ Gerard.Kyle@ag.tamu.edu.
Certifications/additional documentation
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