Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER) 
Executive Director

The Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER) is seeking an exceptional individual with vision and dedication to develop further GLIER as an internationally recognized research institute fulfilling the University’s goal of achieving excellence in environmental science.

GLIER is a multi-disciplinary research group that addresses processes and responses related to multiple stressors in large lakes and their watersheds, through the application of environmental tracers. GLIER’s faculty specializes in environmental chemistry and chemical tracers, evolutionary and conservation genetics, and biological invasions. To learn more about GLIER, please visit us at www.uwindsor.ca/glier.

The Director will have strong administrative skills and will provide leadership in developing collaborative research programs and capacity for studies of large lake ecosystems. She/he will also administer the GLIER graduate program and research facilities and will be responsible for implementing GLIER’s five year research plan. The appointee will be cross-appointed to a relevant department within the university and shall have access to GLIER’s state-of-the-art labs including laboratories for trace organics and metals, environmental isotopes, applied molecular genetics and genomics, toxicology, ecology, GIS, analytical and aquatic geochemistry, and ESEM.

The successful candidate will have a PhD and an exceptional record of scholarship and outstanding skills in facilitating research and scholarship, both basic and applied, and will have the capacity to elicit support for research from private and public sources. In addition, the successful candidate will have the demonstrated ability to work collegially and communicate effectively within GLIER and the University community and with external partners. The initial appointment is for five years and is renewable for a second term. The Director will also hold a regular faculty appointment at an appropriate rank and will be expected to establish a well funded research program at GLIER. The ideal start date is January, 2010.

Candidates are invited to submit a letter of application, a detailed curriculum vitae, a research plan and three current letters of reference, forwarded by the referees. To ensure full consideration, complete applications and letters of reference should be submitted by September 25, 2009 to:

Dr. M. Cristescu, Chair of the Executive Director Search Committee
Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research
University of Windsor
Windsor ON N9B 3P4
E-mail: mcris@uwindsor.ca

The University of Windsor is committed to equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, women, and others who may contribute to further diversification.

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