Job Opportunities
Department of Geographical Sciences Jobs
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Job Roundup
11/1/26-
Assistant Professor, Natural Hazards Modeling, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Deadline: Jan. 16, 2027.
Associate/Full Professor Geography and Environmental Sustainability - Physical Geography, Director of CASC, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Review begins Dec. 1.
10/17/26-10/31/26
Assistant Professor of Geography, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Review begins Nov. 12.
Manager | Geospatial Scientist, Keller Science Action Center, Chicago. Review begins Nov. 16.
Assistant Professor, Health Geography and GIS, Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences, University of Idaho-Moscow. First consideration deadline: Nov. 9
10/1/26-10/16/26
Assistant Professor, GIScience, University of South Carolina-Columbia. Review begins Nov. 1.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong, China. Deadline: Oct. 31
Assistant Professor of Geography, Geography and the Environment, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa. Review will begin Nov. 1.
9/9/26-9/30/26
Data Scientist, District Department of Transportation (DDOT), Washington, D.C. Deadline: Sept. 28
Assistant or Associate Professor of Sustainability & Environmental Studies, Denison University, Granville, Ohio. Deadline: Oct. 12
Assistant/Associate Teaching Professor in Geospatial Analytics, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Deadline: Oct. 15
Associate or Full Professor in Air pollution & Climate Change Impacts and Policy, Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute, Aglandjia, Cyprus. Deadline: Oct. 31
Assistant Professor in Sustainability Science, Department of Geomatics and Environment, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada. Deadline: Nov. 16
8/21/26-9/8/26
Assistant Professor of Physical Geography, Cal State Fullerton, California. Deadline: Nov. 1, 2026
Assistant Professor of Criminology - GIS and Spatial Analysis, California State University, Pomona. Deadline: Sept. 30.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Forest Remote Sensing and Climate Risk Assessment at Mgeo, Lund University, Sweden. Deadline: Sept. 27.
8/6/26-8/20/26
Geographer or Physical Scientist, USGS-Earth Resource Observation and Science, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Deadline: Sept. 1.
Geographer (Recent Graduate), U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters, Suitland, Maryland. Deadline: Aug. 25
7/14/26-8/5/26
Assistant Professor in Climate Research and Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Deadline: Aug. 31.
Assistant Professor in Impacts of Global Environmental Change, University of California, Berkeley. Deadline: Oct. 2.
Assistant Professor in Climate Science, Stanford University, California. Deadline: Nov. 1.
6/4/26-7/13/2026
GIS Technician, American Fork City, Utah. Apply now.
Research Associate or Scientist in Agricultural Economics and Remote Sensing, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with a priority deadline of July 30.
5/9/26-6/3/2026
Senior GIS Solutions Engineer, Tepa Companies, Remote. Apply now.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Deadline: July 6.
4/15/26-5/8/26
Postdoc in Long-Wavelength Radar for Forest Disturbance Monitoring, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Deadline: June 12.
Geospatial Information Librarian at University of California, Riverside. Apply by June 1.
Cartographer at NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland. Apply by May 5.
3/16/26-4/15/26
Senior Data Scientist, District Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. Apply by April 28.
Postdoctoral Associate in Advanced Sensemaking, Rice University, Houston , Texas. Apply now.
3/1/26-3/15/26
Postdoc in Satellite Remote Sensing and Land-Use Modeling of Grassland Management, Aarhus University, Denmark. Deadline: April 10.
Director of Research and Development, Center for Geospatial Information Technology, Virginia Tech., Arlington, VA. Deadline: March 17.
GIS Analyst, Department of Transportation, Baltimore, MD. Deadline: March 14.
Postdoctoral Associate, Community-Centered Physical AI for Smart Urban Management, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. Application review begins March 25.
Postdoctoral Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Peking University, China. Deadline: April 10.
2/14/26-2/28/26
Assistant Professor in Forest Systems, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. Application review begins March 30.
Data Scientist II – AI for RF/Remote Sensing, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Seattle or Richland, WA. Deadline: Feb. 27.
Chief Data Scientist V – GEOINT Domain, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA. Deadline: March 6.
Senior Data Scientist IV – GEOINT, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA. Deadline: March 6.
Data Scientist III – GEOINT, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA. Deadline: March 6.
1/27/26-2/13/26
Western Virginia Recovery Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy, Lexington, Virginia. Apply now.
GIS Analyst, Santa Barbara County, CA. Deadline: Feb. 5.
1/5/26-1/26/26
GIS Specialist, Center for Biological Diversity, Tucson, Arizona (Hybrid). Apply now.
Enterprise Geospatial Intern, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC. Apply now.
GIS Technician, HACU National Internship Program, Beltsville, MD. Apply now.
GIS Analyst, Masego, Fully Remote. Apply now.