Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
The Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (MEAS) covers a broad range of disciplines with one overarching goal: a deeper understanding of the Earth’s environment. MEAS takes an interdisciplinary, integrated systems-based approach to studying our planet’s air, earth and water. This interdisciplinary viewpoint is particularly important today, in light of accelerating global changes and increasing corporate and public interest in environmental health and the stewardship of our natural resources. Addressing these complex issues requires more than narrow training in a single discipline. MEAS graduates can be equipped for tasks as diverse as improving severe storm forecasting; assessing the potential effects of oil exploration and mining; modeling global climate trends or coastal flooding; understanding the transport of air pollutants from industrial centers, remote satellite observation of our planet's surface; or devising plans to minimize erosion, harmful algal blooms and the pollution of our streams, lakes and estuaries.
MEAS offers:
- Degrees and minors in meteorology, geology, marine sciences, and natural resources
- Minors in meteorology, geology, and marine sciences
- Semester at CMAST, an opportunity to spend a spring semester on the shore of Bogue Sound, in Morehead City
- A departmental honors program in which participants receive enhanced coverage of academic material and are involved in research.
- Opportunities for undergraduate research, cooperative education, and Internships
- Award –winning facilities that include state of the art classrooms, teaching laboratories, computing facilities, and research
- Partnerships with the State Climate Office and the National Weather Service, which are housed on NC State’s Centennial Campus
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Contact
Campus mailing address:
Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
Campus Box 8208,
NC State University Raleigh,
NC 27695-8208
Physical Address:
Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
2800 Faucette Dr.
Rm. 1125 Jordan Hall
NC State University
Raleigh, NC 27695
Program contact:
Maggie Puryear,
Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs
mwpollar@ncsu.edu
919.513.1093
Faculty
Department Head
- L. A. Owen
Director of Graduate Programs
- V. Aneja, Co-Director
- L. Leithold, Co-Director
Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs
- M. Puryear
Director, CMAST
- D.B. Eggleston, Professor
Director, NC-CICS-Asheville
- O. Brown, Research Professor
Professors
- V.P. Aneja
- D. Bohnenstiehl
- D. DeMaster
- D.B. Eggleston
- D.P. Genereux
- P.J. Harries, Dean, Graduate School, Professor-MEAS
- R. He, Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Professor
- G.M. Lackmann
- E.L. Leithold
- J. Levine
- P. Liu
- D.A. McConnell
- N. Meskhidze
- H. Mitasova
- L. A. Owen, Department Head
- M.D. Parker
- M. Petters
- W.A. Robinson
- W.J. Showers
- L. Xie
- S.E. Yuter, Distinguished Professor
Research Professors
- O. Brown
- K.E. Kunkel
- C.R. Philbrick
Professor Emeriti
- S.P. Arya
- T. Clark
- J.M. Davis
- R. Fodor
- J.C. Fountain
- J. Hibbard
- T. S. Hopkins
- D.L. Kamykowski
- L.J. Langfelder
- L.J. Pietrafesa
- S. Raman
- F. Semazzi
- C. Welby
- T.G. Wolcott
Adjunct Professor Emeritus
- D.A. Russell
Associate Professors
- A.R. Aiyyer
- P. Byrne
- C. L. Osburn
- A. Schnetzer
- K.W. Wegmann
Research Associate Professors
- C.J. Thomas
Associate Professor Emeriti
- C.E. Knowles
- A.J. Riordan
- P.T. Shaw
- E.F. Stoddard
- D.L. Wolcott
Assistant Professors
- C. Arendt
- S.P. Bishop
- E. Hyland
- S. Larson
- R. Paerl
Research Assistant Professors
- J. Zambon
Senior Research Scholar
- M. Miller
Adjunct Professors
- S. Bulusu
- B. Colle
- D. Easterling
- B. Eder
- P. Hamilton
- R.S. Harmon
- D. Kingsmill
- E. Koster
- S.T. Rao
- S. Yu
- Y. Zhang
Adjunct Associate Professors
- W. H. Battye
- J. M. Dahl
- B. Kosovic
- A. I. Newell
- J. Rudek
- S. White
Adjunct Assistant Professors
- G.W. Bell
- M. Brennan
- L. Daniel
- S.H. Ensign
- B. Henderson
- N. Kang
- H. Liu
- S.B. Phillips
- B. Puckett
- B.A. Schaeffer
- J. A. Stanley
- R.C. Tacker
Lecturers
- C. Congreve
- R. Mera
Plans
- Geology (BS)
- Geology (Minor)
- Marine Science (Minor)
- Marine Sciences (BS): Biological Oceanography Concentration
- Marine Sciences (BS): Chemistry Concentration
- Marine Sciences (BS): Geology Concentration
- Marine Sciences (BS): Meteorology Concentration
- Marine Sciences (BS): Physics Concentration
- Meteorology (BS)
- Meteorology (BS): Marine Sciences Concentration
- Meteorology (Minor)
- Natural Resources (BS): Marine and Coastal Concentration