Back to Listings Academic Professional Track (Non-Tenure): Instructional Assistant Professor in Coastal Geography Marine and Coastal Environmental Science Location Galveston, Texas Open Date 4/20/2026 Position ID 181618 Description The Department of Marine & Coastal Environmental Science (MCES) in the College of Marine Sciences & Maritime Studies at Texas A&M University located on the Galveston campus invites
applications for a full-time, non-tenure accruing academic professional track position 5-month academic appointment beginning on January 1, 2027, with a 9-month academic appointment thereafter. Applicants will be considered for the faculty title of Instructional Assistant Professor. We encourage applications from outstanding candidates who are passionate about teaching undergraduate courses in human-environment
geography, with an emphasis on disaster science and/or geography of the world's oceans and coasts. Candidates that can use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in their teaching are preferred. The successful candidate will be expected to teach undergraduate and/or graduate courses, which may include Marine Geography, courses in human and/or regional geography of disasters, and other courses based on departmental need
and candidate interest (e.g., Intro to GIS, Geomorphology, Remote Sensing). The candidate will support MCES degree programs in Marine Sciences (MARS) and Coastal Resilience and Environmental Science (CRES) and is expected to grow the department's instructional capacity in geography and disaster science. Academic Professional Track faculty are typically expected to teach 9 credit hours (typically 3 courses) per long
semester (spring and fall), along with service contributions to the department, college, university and profession. Academic Professional Track (APT) faculty are full and valued members of the professorial community at the College of Marine Sciences and Maritime Studies. APT faculty work under nine-month contracts, with the expectation of renewal dependent upon effective undergraduate and/or graduate teaching and
service to the College, University, and/or professional community. APT contracts offer multi-year appointments after promotion, and a promotion ladder is available for those who choose teaching as their career. MCES is an interdisciplinary department with faculty research and teaching efforts transecting natural, social, and applied scientific problems focused on the coastal zone, but broader research interests span
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