NOTICE OF HERPETOLOGY POSITION
POSITION AVAILABLE:  Tenure-track Assistant Curator of Herpetology and Assistant Professor of Biology, Sam Noble Museum and Department of Biology, the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.
SALARY:  Negotiable (12-month appointment).  NOTE:  1.00 FTE of the salary line item will be in the museum and tenure will be in the Department of Biology.
BEGINNING DATE:  (1 July 2013)
RESPONSIBILITIES:  The curator's responsibilities include four areas:  (1) developing and maintaining a program of externally funded scholarly research in herpetology; (2) overseeing care and obtaining support for a collection of more than 50,000 specimens; (3) exhibit development and support, including obtaining or collaborating to obtain external funds to assist with exhibits; and (4) museum-related outreach activities (service). Curators and professors engage in original funded research in their discipline and make research results available to the scientific community and public through publications in quality journals and participation at annual society meetings or symposia.  Curators assure adequate care of the collection, including preservation and conservation, maintaining records, identifying and cataloging specimens, supervising preparators and assistants, expanding the collections, and developing long-range plans for collection maintenance and development.  A full-time collection manager is funded in this collection, and a rotating graduate assistant appointment is assigned to the collection. Faculty curators interpret their discipline to students and the public through displays, public programs, and academic activities as graduate student supervisors and instructors of one course per year (one-half the department teaching load). Ph.D., teaching experience, and field and museum research experience in herpetology are required.  Research must have a collection base, although diverse fields of study are acceptable (e.g., systematics, biogeography, evolutionary biology, coevolution). We seek a person who in time will become a leading authority in their field of study.
GENERAL INFORMATION:  The Sam Noble Museum is an organized research unit of the University of Oklahoma. The present facility is one of the finest university museums in the world. The museum has an outstanding curatorial, collections, exhibits, and support staff that serves the museum's mission from research to preservation to education at all levels. The Department of Biology is a leading academic department in the university. Both units seek an individual to complement or expand upon programs in organismal biology and evolutionary biology.
APPLICATIONS:  Send cover letter, curriculum vitae, summary of experience and goals, representative pdf reprint examples, and names, addresses, and telephone numbers of references to (electronic applications preferred): Dr. Michael A. Mares, Director, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>  Attn. Herpetology Search Committee. [Street address] Sam Noble Museum, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, Oklahoma, 73072-7029. Visit us at http://snomnh.ou.edu.
CLOSING DATE:  Screening of candidates will begin 1 October 2012 and continue until the position is filled.



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