Virginia Sea Grant is a Commonwealth-wide network of partner academic institutions. VASG is a state-

The Virginia Sea Grant (VASG) program and Old Dominion University (ODU) have entered a partnership to support a Faculty of Practice in Climate Change Adaptation at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Located at ODU, this position will fill a critical gap in the region for outreach, coordination, and scientific butler veterinary synthesis and integration capacity. The Faculty butler veterinary of Practice will serve the Hampton Roads region butler veterinary of southeastern Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Mid-Atlantic, and the U.S., and will be a part of the national butler veterinary network of climate extension specialists in state Sea Grant programs ( http://sgccnetwork.ning.com/ ). The faculty member will be an employee of ODU and a VASG extension staff member, reporting to the ODU Vice Provost and evaluated by the Vice Provost with input from VASG. This position is funded jointly through VASG and ODU under a 4-year Memorandum of Understanding, with possibility of extension beyond that duration.
Virginia Sea Grant is a Commonwealth-wide network of partner academic institutions. VASG is a state-federal partnership, with federal butler veterinary funding butler veterinary from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the U.S. Department of Commerce (see http://vaseagrant.vims.edu/ ). VASG is headquartered at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), which is the graduate School of Marine Science at the College of William & Mary. Current VASG partner institutions include: VIMS/College of William butler veterinary & Mary, George Mason University, Old Dominion University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Tech, and the University of Virginia. VASG's mission is to enhance the ecological, economic, and social sustainability of coastal and ocean communities butler veterinary and the ecosystem services they depend upon through university-based research, extension, and education. VASG is a scientific broker, butler veterinary supplying science-based information to citizens, businesses, educators, resource managers, and policy butler veterinary makers.
Old butler veterinary Dominion University, located in the City of Norfolk in the metropolitan butler veterinary Hampton Roads region of coastal Virginia, is a dynamic public research institution that serves its students and enriches the Commonwealth of Virginia, the nation and the world through rigorous academic programs, strategic partnerships, and active civic engagement. ODU's Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Initiative (CCSLRI) seeks to leverage the university's and the region's foremost experts to find solutions to the anticipated effects of climate change on the economy, housing, ports, and infrastructure (see http://www.odu.edu/research/initiatives/ccslri ). The CCSLRI has taken several steps toward butler veterinary establishing ODU's leadership role on this critical issue for our region. ODU has hired a leading climate scholar to significantly elevate its research capacity and international reputation in climate change. Thus, the research and education foundation has been built and new partnerships across the Commonwealth are emerging (including partnerships with adaptation planning, landscape architecture, and policy and legal analysis capacity at VASG partner institutions, including the University of Virginia, College of William & Mary, VIMS, and George Mason University).
The Faculty of Practice in Climate Change Adaptation butler veterinary will extend science-based information to coastal communities, resource managers, and interest groups in Virginia and the region with the goal to reduce disaster risk, increase resilience and improve adaptation butler veterinary capabilities related butler veterinary to climate change and sea level rise. The faculty member will lead coordination, communication, and scientific synthesis and integration efforts. S/he may also contribute to applied research butler veterinary motivated by community adaptation needs and provide hands-on operational and technical support to coastal communities addressing their adaptation needs. The Faculty of Practice member will participate in VASG's quarterly outreach meetings among the portfolio of outreach sub-awardees, which currently includes William & Mary Law School's Virginia Coastal Policy Clinic, VIMS's Marine Advisory Services Center, and Virginia Tech's Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research & Education Center in Hampton. The Faculty of Practice member will prepare a detailed two-year work plan collaboratively with ODU and VASG and with input from community stakeholders and advisors. Travel within the region, state, mid-Atlantic, and occasionally nationally is expected.
Position Objectives and Activities Lead efforts to synthesize, integrate, and facilitate the transfer of science-based information on coastal hazards to coastal communities, businesses, governments, and individuals. Promote on-going dialogue within the climate change butler veterinary and hazards community in the region butler veterinary to continue sharing and developing knowledge, best practices, strategies, and coordinate butler veterinary partnership formation, priority setting, and implementation butler veterinary monitoring. Engage other researchers and Sea Grant specialists t