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Climate Science Dual-Title Ph.D. Program

Geography Ph.D. students are eligible to apply for entry into the Climate Science Dual-Title Ph.D. program. This program allows  Geography graduate students to apply climate science perspectives and methodologies within a geographic context.

Climate-related GEOG courses offered at PSU:

GEOG 410: Climatic Change and Variability

*GEOG 412W: Climatic Change and Variability (Writing-Intensive)

GEOG 414: Principles and Applications in Landscape Ecology

*GEOG 417: Satellite Climatology

GEOG 430: Human Use of Environment

GEOG 431: Geography of Water Resources

GEOG 434: Politics of the Environment

GEOG 436: Ecology, Economy, and Environment

*GEOG 438W: Human Dimensions of Global Warming

GEOG 462: Advanced Observation of Earth and Its Environment

*GEOG 464: Advanced Spatial Analysis

GEOG 465: Advanced Geographic Information Systems Modeling

*GEOG 510: Seminar in Physical Geography

GEOG 530: Human-Environment Seminar

 

An asterisk (*) indicates courses which satisfy the Dual Title requirements. Refer to the Climate Science Dual-Title Handbook for more information, available for download from the Dual-Title Webpage.

Climate-related METEO courses offered at PSU:

*METEO 421: Atmospheric Dynamics

*METEO 422: Advanced Atmospheric Dynamics

METEO 431: Atmospheric Thermodynamics

*METEO 436: Radiation and Climate

*METEO 451: Introduction to Physical Oceanography

METEO 469: From Meteorology to Mitigation: Understanding Global Warming

*METEO 470: Climate Dynamics

*METEO 473: Application of Computers to Meteorology

METEO 486: Pennsylvania Climate Studies

*METEO 515: Practical Statistics for Atmospheric Sciences

*METEO 521: Dynamical Meteorology

*METEO 523: Modeling the Climate System

*METEO 527: Data Assimilation

*METEO 532: Chemistry of the Atmosphere

*METEO 535: Radiative Transfer

*METEO 551: Physical Oceanography

METEO 556: The Atmospheric Boundary Layer

*METEO 561: Global Carbon Cycle

*METEO 563: Bioclimatology

*METEO 570: Climate System Dynamics

*METEO 575: Climate Dynamics Seminar

METEO 591: Development and Ethics in the Atmospheric Sciences

 

An asterisk (*) indicates courses which satisfy the Dual Title requirements. Refer to the Climate Science Dual-Title Handbook for more information, available for download from the Dual-Title Webpage.

Climate-related courses offered from other departments at PSU:

*GEOSC 405: Hydropedology

*GEOSC 410: Marine Biogeochemistry

*GEOSC 419: The Organic Geochemistry of Natural Waters and Sediments

*ANTH 432: Environmental Archaeology

*GEOSC 450: Risk Analysis in the Earth Sciences

*CE 461: Water-resource Engineering

*CE 475: Water Quality Chemistry

*GEOSC 502: Evolution of the Biosphere

*CE 555: Groundwater Hydrology: Modeling and Analysis

*CE 561: Surface Hydrology

*FOR 565: GIS Based Socio-Ecological Landscape Analysis

GEOSC 587: Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences

 

An asterisk (*) indicates courses which satisfy the Dual Title requirements. Refer to the Climate Science Dual-Title Handbook for more information, available for download from the Dual-Title Webpage.

Useful Links:

https://nsidc.org/

https://arcticwwf.org/work/climate/

https://gradschool.psu.edu/

 

Helpful Information:

A range of instruments are available for use in field experiments and classroom use. These include:

  • thermometers
  • sling psychrometers
  • IR thermometers
  • wind meters
  • solar radiometer