Atmospheric Sciences

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The Atmospheric Science Program, jointly sponsored by the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences and the Department of Geography, conducts teaching and research in atmospheric science. It is an interdisciplinary programme, with faculty members coming from not only these two departments, but also from Agricultural Sciences, Chemistry, and Applied Science, with research covering boundary layer meteorology, atmospheric chemistry and air pollution, climate and climate variability, weather and climate prediction, cloud physics, atmosphere-ocean interactions, geophysical fluid dynamics, and interactions between the atmosphere and land (especially vegetation and soil).

Sample skill sets

Junior Students

  • Assist with Geologic mapping, including making cross sections and stratigraphic sections
  • Students are knowledgeable about field safety
  • Assist in petrographic analysis (thin section identification of common rocks & minerals)
  • Providing field assistance during drilling
  • Mineral inventories
  • Assisting with core logging
  • Plotting data using computer software
  • Recording and measuring river and stream stage and flows

Senior Students

  • Collecting groundwater-level information
  • Collecting and preserving water samples
  • Elementary well testing
  • Testing fill material for compaction and moisture during road construction

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Musqueam First Nation land acknowledegement

We honour xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam) on whose ancestral, unceded territory UBC Vancouver is situated. UBC Science is committed to building meaningful relationships with Indigenous peoples so we can advance Reconciliation and ensure traditional ways of knowing enrich our teaching and research.

Learn more: Musqueam First Nation

UBC Science Co-op

Chem/Phys
170-6221 University Boulevard V6T 1Z1
604 822 9677
science.coop@ubc.ca

Faculty of Science

Office of the Dean, Earth Sciences Building
2178–2207 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada
V6T 1Z4
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