Program Overview

Program Overview

The Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (Thesis) is a research-intensive program offered by the Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences in the Faculty of Science. The program's objective is to equip students with skills in original thinking, data collection, and scientific communication to either continue their studies or pursue professional opportunities.

Program Description

The program is one of the only ones in Canada that includes both atmospheric and oceanic sciences. Students benefit from a low professor-to-student ratio and access to state-of-the-art computing, remote sensing, and atmospheric chemistry laboratory equipment. The program allows considerable flexibility for choice research topics, and gives students both a strong classroom knowledge of the subject as well as the opportunity to choose from a variety of thesis research projects.

Unique Program Features

• The program is one of the only ones in Canada that includes both atmospheric and oceanic sciences;
• Students benefit from a low professor-to-student ratio and access to state-of-the-art computing, remote sensing, and atmospheric chemistry laboratory equipment;
• The program allows considerable flexibility for choice research topics, and gives students both a strong classroom knowledge of the subject as well as the opportunity to choose from a variety of thesis research projects;
• The Department has close ties with Environment & Climate Change Canada's numerical weather prediction centre in Dorval, Quebec;
• Graduates may continue their education or transition into the workforce working, for example, with Environment & Climate Change Canada as research associates or weather forecasters.

University-Level Admission Requirements

• An eligible Bachelor's degree with a minimum 3.0 GPA out of a possible 4.0 GPA
• English-language proficiency

Available Intakes

• Fall

Application Deadlines

Intake | Applications Open | Application Deadline - International | Application Deadline - Domestic (Canadian, Permanent Resident of Canada)
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FALL | September 15 | January 15 | February 28
WINTER | N/A | N/A | N/A
SUMMER | N/A | N/A | N/A

Research Areas

The program focuses on the following research areas:

• meteorology
• atmospheric science
• oceanic science
• physical oceanography
• weather
• climate science
• climate change
• atmospheric chemistry
• sea ice
• numerical modelling.