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Earth System Science & Engineerig (ESSE)

ESSE is a joint program between AOSS and the Department of Geological Sciences because of the interconnectivity between the areas of study. As an ESSE student, you'll begin to understand the interactions among all Earth system components while gaining in-depth knowledge in one of three concentrations: Climate Physics, Meteorology or Space Weather.As a College of Engineering student, with the required 128 credits, you'll earn a BSE in Earth System Science & Engineering.

 

You'll learn with faculty who continually push the science, recognizing that the Earth, the planets and the solar system don't exist in isolation.

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How do the parts of the whole affect each other? Do solar flares from the Sun have an impact on global warming? How do our activities affect both the Earth's physical and social systems? How do we measure these changes? These and other questions are explored everyday by faculty and ESSE students.

The proud history of the disciplines has yielded a department honored for its work and ready to educate new generations of scientists and engineers prepared for the future in the University of Michigan tradition: The Leaders and the Best.



How is AOSS involved in ESSE activities?

AOSS faculty and students describe and explain phenomena in the atmospheres of the sun, Earth,planets and the space in-between. The world of AOSS faculty includes space science and engineering projects on Earth, Mars, Saturn, Mercury and a comet. And it can be your world,too, as an AOSS ESSE student.

 

The choice is yours.

The Universe is waiting.

 

For more information about these and other projects, visit:

 

AOSS Atmospheric Science

AOSS Planetary & Space Sciences

Space Physics Research Laboratory

 

 

 Air Quality Laboratory

Focusing on the transport and fate of pollutants in the environment

Atmospheric Chemistry & Climate Modeling Group

Focusing on atmospheric radiative and chemical processes

Center for Space Environment Modeling

Focusing on developing models to describe and predict hazardous conditions in space weather

Global Change Laboratory

Focusing on monitoring relevant atmospheric variables

Microwave Geophysics Group

Focusing on improving models and instruments for near-term climate and weather prediction

PROPHET: Program for Research on Oxidants: PHotochemistry, Emissions and Transport

Focusing on biosphere-atmosphere interactions

Remote Sensing Group

Develops microwave sensors, calibration methodologies and geophysical retrieval inversion algorithms for remote sensing of the Earth's environment from orbiting platforms


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The ESSE program meets National Weather Service qualification standards for meteorology positions.

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