Lehigh University
*Note: This position has been filled. Lehigh's Library and Technology Services (LTS) offers a two-year fellowship for a scholar who will serve the research data needs of researchers in the sciences, with a particular focus on Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) and Lehigh's Environmental Initiative. The Fellow will join the LTS support team for the College of Arts and Sciences, which includes librarians, computing consultants, and an instructional technologist, and will also work closely with Lehigh's Web and GIS specialist and with members of the LTS High Performance Computing Team.
Elements of the fellowship include:
- Collaborate with LTS and faculty colleagues in developing campus infrastructure for long-term data management in the sciences
- Investigate and assess data management needs of researchers in the EES department and related disciplines
- Work with library colleagues to establish connections between research data and the new campus institutional repository
- Work toward establishing models and workflows for data plans required for federal grants
- Develop expertise in curation; explore metadata schema appropriate to data generated in Earth and Environmental Sciences and other disciplines associated with Lehigh's Environmental Initiative
- Develop instructional sessions for faculty and graduate students on research data management and curation
- Collaborate with faculty to develop a program to encourage use of Lehigh's research data through outreach to the scholarly and larger community.
Requirements:
- PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences or similar discipline, with doctoral research involving work with large databases
- Experience with data visualization tools and programs
- Experience working with a range of data streams; examples might include numerical, rock samples, water samples, maps, etc.
About Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Environmental Initiative: Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) is Lehigh's home for Geosciences, Ecology, and Environmental Science. The Department has systematically developed research foci in the solid Earth and tectonics, surface processes, climate and paleoclimate, and ecosystems broadly defined.
Created to foster collaborative envrionmental research across departments and colleges at Lehigh, the Environmental Initiative brings together the core departments of Earth and Environmental Science and Civil and Environmental Engineering with individual faculty members affiliated with Social Science departments and the College of Education. The cornerstone of the initiative is the STEPS building, which opened in August 2010, and is designed to facilitate collaborative learning and eliminate boundaries between the classroom and the lab.
About Library and Technology Services: Lehigh's Library and Technology Services (LTS) delivers computing, library, media, instructional technology, faculty development, and distance education services. This collaborative environment affords a unique opportunity to experiment with sophisticated information technologies and to develop pedagogical expertise to enhance teaching, learning, and research. Lehigh is a partner institution in the Kuali OLE online library project and has recently completed a CLIR Hidden Collections grant. The Libraries engage with faculty and the community in the creation of a range of digital library projects.
About Lehigh University: Founded in 1865, Lehigh University is a private institution with over 4,500 undergraduates and 2,000 graduate students. Lehigh is a premier residential research university, ranked in the top tier of national research universities each year. Lehigh University's picturesque 1,600-acre wooded campus is located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (pop. 75,000), in the center of the Lehigh Valley (pop. 600,000+), conveniently located near New York City (75 miles) and Philadelphia (50 miles).
Lehigh University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status. Comprehensive benefits including partner benefits.