Climate Dynamics Doctoral Program

Overview

Our students learn about how the atmosphere, ocean, and land surface work together to determine the climate. In collaboration with internationally-known scientists, students conduct independent work to further our understanding of climate, how it varies, and how much of it we can predict. Tools in the program include cutting-edge climate models, sophisticated statistical techniques, and comprehensive data sets. Our graduates have gone on to work at top laboratories and universities.

The Climate Dynamics Program welcomes both full-time and part-time students. Many part-time students are professionals at Washington-area Federal laboratories where climate-related work is conducted.

The Climate Dynamics Program benefits from close ties with Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA), a laboratory dedicated to studying the predictability of climate. In the summer of 2013, COLA moved to George Mason University’s Fairfax Campus.

Further Information

What is Climate Dynamics?
Why a George Mason Climate Dynamics PhD?

Catalog Description with Degree Requirements
Student Path Through Program
Department Graduate Courses with Links to Syllabi
Climate and Weather Gateway

Admissions Information

Questions? Contact Barry Klinger, AOES Graduate Coordinator.