News and Advising Updates

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2023-2024 Academic Year

News

• We are losing two ATSC core professors. Prof. Sara Knox is resigning from the UBC Geography Dept to move back to McGill Univ. Prof. Ian McKendry is retired from the UBC Geography Dept.
• GEOS 402 Air Pollution Meteorology will NOT be taught in the 2023-2024 academic year. The Geography dept is moving their students from GEOS 402 to GEOS 401.
• GEOS 401 Urban Meteorology will be taught. A new instructor is being arranged by Geography dept.
• ATSC 313 Renewable Energy Meteorology. This hybrid course (i.e., fully online, except for the final exam) is offered in BOTH Fall and January terms.
• New course ATSC 413 Forest-fire Weather and Climate will be offered for the first time this Fall 2023. Meeting times are Tue and Thur 9 - 11 am (i.e., 2 hours both days). ECCC has pre-approved this course as satisfying their Synoptics Meteorology requirement. See more info on the web page: https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/courses/atsc413/index.html
• MECH 411 Air Pollution, Technology and Society is indeed open to ATSC majors (and all BSc majors) that have the prerequisite. In spite of the fact it says it is restricted, you should be able to register for it. (If not, let the instructor Naomi Zimmerman know.) There is limited seats, so don't wait until December to try to sign up for it.

ATSC Advising Updates

• Acceptable alternatives to GEOS 402 Air Pollution Meteorology are
  • MECH 411 Air Pollution, Technology and Society (see info above), or
  • CHEM 302 Atmospheric Environmental Chemistry, or
  • ATSC 595D Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling
    (to register for this, contact Prof. Stull, because you can't just register yourself)
    https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/courses/atsc507/ADM/
• ATSC 405 Cloud Physics and Chemistry. Prof. Phil Austin asks that you email him if you are interested in taking this course. No days/times are listed because Prof. Austin will find a time that fits all of your schedules. He will teach it in January 2024 term.
• PHYS 314 Fluids has not been offered for many years. For ATSC Honours students, acceptable alternatives are
  • MECH 280 Intro to Fluid Mechanics or
  • CIVL 215 Fluid Mechanics 1.
  • Caution: these alternatives are NOT upper-level courses.