Graduate students are central to the Program's scholarly and scientific community; their research and teaching contributions are central to our mission.
Overall, these goals are reflected in the graduate program's broad programmatic objectives:
- To bring graduate students rapidly and fully into the collegial, scholarly, scientific, and teaching life of the Geography Department, the ASP, and the University
- To provide a common foundation for graduate research in atmospheric sciences
- To provide a variety of courses to meet student research and training needs, and to support student efforts to find relevant courses outside the department
- To offer opportunities for students to become familiar with current research within the atmospheric sciences;
- To encourage students to engage in academic research presentations and critique
- To support as far as possible the financial needs of graduate students through a variety of teaching and research assistantships, fellowships, and other mechanisms.
The ASP is designed to develop outstanding thinkers and to lay the foundation for rewarding careers. OSU Geography/Atmospheric Sciences has a long history of preparing students for diverse jobs in academia/education, government, the private sector, and non-profits. Master's graduates in particular have found that their intellectual and technical training in our department leads to fulfilling careers in multiple fields.
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