College Instructor/Herbarium

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PositionTitle:College Instructor/Herbarium

Employee Classification:LC Faculty NT 12m

College/Division:Agricultural,Consumer and Env Sci Col

Department:302000-ANIMAL AND RANGE SCIENCES

Internal or External Search:External - Open to all applicants

Location:Las Cruces

Offsite Location (if applicable):

Target Hourly/Salary Rate: Commensurate on education and experience

Appointment Full-time Equivalency: 1.0

Exempt or Non-Exempt: Exempt

Summary:We are searching for a dynamic individual for the curation and management of the NMSU Herbarium Museum

Classification Summary: To provide premier programs to those we serve by focusing on education, research, and outreach.

Classification Standard Duties: Manage and develop NMSU's revitalized herbarium, a 130-year old center of plant research and education, and the state's most historically valuable museum of plant biodiversity.

Required Education, Experience, Certification/License, Equivalency M.S. degree in a botany-related discipline that includes coursework in plant taxonomy/systematics, floristics, natural resource management, and species conservation. Minimum of 5 years of museum curatorial experience working in an herbarium. . Experience writing successful grant proposals on projects focused on improving herbarium infrastructure and on conducting original specimen-based plant research. Proven publication record of scientific research related to plants, including topics specifically related to the flora of New Mexico. Expertise with modern herbarium curatorial best-practices, specimen digitization, field work, plant sample collection, and archival museum preservation methods. Proficiency using the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. Experience or ability to work with large datasets, big data analysis, and the Specify-branded collection database management software (in use in the NMSU Herbarium). Experience delivering plant- and specimen-based outreach programs to a wide variety of stakeholders in New Mexico. Supervisory experience working with students, interns, staff, and volunteers. Experience administering herbarium museum accounts, budget oversight, and related fiscal matters.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Broad knowledge of plant biology, botany, range ecology, and especially New Mexico plant biodiversity. Expertise with modern herbarium curatorial best-practices and collection and preservation techniques. Knowledge of herbarium curation and collection management. Ability to teach and engage a wide variety of audiences with plant science and related STEM subjects. Knowledge of constructing and analyzing large plant data sets. Ability to manage large-scale digitization. .

Job Duties and Responsibilities The NMSU Herbarium College Instructor position is unique at NMSU and provides very broad educational impacts beyond the ANRS Department. Major responsibilities are the curation and management of the NMSU Herbarium Museum, a 130-year-old center of plant education and research (https://herbarium.nmsu.edu/index.html).

The position requires strong commitments to: 1) safeguard the legacy and prestige of the NMSU Herbarium; 2) ensure future strategic growth of the collections; 3) increase herbarium visitation and public usage of its vast botanical resources; 4) conduct and promote specimen-based research; 5) seek out new funding opportun ties; and 6) raise awareness about the value and importance of herbaria and other biodiversity museums and collections at NMSU and more broadly in society.

Teaching a wide variety of stakeholders about topics including botany, plant ecology, rangeland plant communities, the flora of New Mexico, and natural resource management. Improving the scientific value, accessibility, and functionality of the herbarium through better specimen curation, collection management, and museum administration. Strengthening the universitys capacity to engage and retain students while promoting their post-graduation opportunities and professional success. Securing new external funding for diverse, multidisciplinary projects focused on the creation of novel botanical research, on the strategic growth of the collection with respect to coverage and its historical strengths, and on improving the physical and digital infrastructure of the herbarium. Expanding the collaborative network of the herbarium to create new initiatives and partnerships across NMSU that include more departments, colleges, extension groups, academic programs/curricula, and research units. Elevating herbarium research and creativity via emerging scientific fields with research projects focused on improving the knowledge, application, and management of the 4,500 plant species forming the flora of New Mexico. Increasing offerings in outreach programs to further promote plant education, herbarium visitation, and collection usage throughout the community. Foster collaborations and participate in activities and on research teams that support the work of the Center of Excellence in Food and Sustainable Agriculture (CESFAS)

As a kind of natural history museum, the herbarium holds collections of more than 120,000 unique, irreplaceable, plant specimens, a library of 5,000+ botanical items, and an extensive assortment of plant germplasm samples. Each year, the collection grows by ca. 2,000 accessions. Founded in 1890, the herbarium still has the largest and most valuable set of historical plant collections from New Mexico in the world. Open to the public on weekdays, the herbarium currently receives about 1,200 in-person visitors annually, while hundreds more visit the herbarium virtually and benefit from its recently digitized online resources each year (https://specify.nmsu.edu/specify/). These invaluable plant materials are used in many ANRS, ACES and AandS disciplines to teach students, promote research, and carry out public outreach on various subjects such as agriculture, plant species conservation, rangeland management and restoration, molecular biology, taxonomy/systematics, phytochemistry, plant community ecology, anthropology/sociology, archaeology, history, geography, etc. Outside of ANRS, the herbarium has collaborative projects with departments including FWCE, PES, EPPWS, AXED, BIOL, GEOG, SOC, HIST and ART. In addition, the herbarium has strong connections with other curators and collection managers in the seven other museums and natural history repositories located on the NMSU main campus (Entomology Collection, Vertebrate Collection, Library Archives and Special Collections, University Museum, Art Museum, Zuhl Museum). The herbarium has an established track record of benefiting a wide variety of NMSU research centers and programs across campus such as the ACES extension groups (NM-CES), Agricultural Experimental Station, College Assistance Migrant Program, Chili Pepper Institute, Jornada Experimental Range, Molecular Biology and Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Grad