Agrilife Research
Postdoctoral Research Associate
College Station, TX · Contract
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About the role
- 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.
- Failure to provide all job application data or a complete resume could result in an invalid submission and a rejected application.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement a spatially explicit methodology for characterizing and prioritizing private working lands based on flood mitigation potential and land‑conversion 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.
- Support facilitation of community workshops with landowners, conservation partners, and local decision‑makers to co‑produce knowledge and identify conservation pathways.
- Contribute to the development of a decision‑support toolkit, including interactive maps, a dichotomous key for land evaluation, success‑story dashboards, and decision‑pathway tools for conservation opportunities.
Nice to have
- Experience with survey design methodologies and software.
- Strong quantitative and mixed‑methods skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent communication skills and public engagement experience.
- Experience with ecosystem services modeling or flood‑risk assessment.
- Knowledge of conservation easements, open‑space valuation, or land‑stewardship programs relevant to Texas working lands.
- Experience collaborating with multi‑stakeholder teams (e.g., land trusts, Extension, state agencies).
- Position Funding: This position is grant funded and availability is contingent on grant funding.
Compensation
- 12-15 days of annual paid holidays
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance with Texas A&M AgriLife contributing to employee health and basic life premiums
- Up to eight hours of paid sick leave and at least eight hours of paid vacation each month
- Automatic enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas
- Employee Wellness Initiative for Texas A&M AgriLife
- Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory
Company info
- Click here to learn more about how you can be a part of AgriLife and make a difference in the world!
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