News and Advising Updates
Will be updated as new info arrives.
2025-2026 Academic Year
News
- We welcomed two new ATSC core professors last year: Dr. Tianjia (Tina) Liu and Dr. Marysa Lague, both in the UBC Dept. of Geography. See their brief biosketches at https://atsc.eoas.ubc.ca/2-profs/ .
- Info about which of the the following ATSC-relevant Geography (GEOS & GEOG) courses will be offered during the 2025-2026 academic year will be updated soon:
- GEOS_V 200 Atmos. Environments. cross-listed with APBI 244
- GEOS_V 300 Microscale Weather & Clim.
- GEOS_V 309 Field course.
- GEOS_V 370 Advanced Geographic Info Systems (GIS).
- GEOS_V 373 Intro Remote Sensing.
- GEOS_V 400 Global Change Science.
- GEOS_V 401 Urban Meteorology.
- GEOS_V 402 Air Pollution Meteorology.
- GEOG_V 312 Climate Change: Sci. & Society.
- ATSC_V 313 Renewable Energy Meteorology. This hybrid course (i.e., fully online, except for the final exam) is offered in BOTH Fall and January terms.
- MECH_V 411 Air Pollution, Technology and Society is indeed open to ATSC majors (and all BSc majors) who 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 Prof. Naomi Zimmerman know.) There is limited seats, so don't wait until December to try to sign up for it.
ATSC Advising Updates
- Here is the teaching plan for ATSC-related courses for the upcoming academic year, as of 14 May 2025 :
- 2025-2026:
- ATSC_V 113 (Fall, Spring & Summer, all online*) - Weather Science for Sailing, Flying & Snow Sports.
- ATSC_V 201 (Fall) - Meteorology of Storms
- ATSC_V 313 (Fall & Spr online*) - Renewable Energy Meteorology
- ATSC_V 404 (Spr)- Atmos. Dynamics
- ATSC_V 405 (Spr) - Cloud Physics
- ATSC_V 409 (Spr) - Numerical techniques
- ATSC_V 413 (Fall) - Forest Fire Weather & Climate
- ATSC_V 448 (Fall) Capstone course
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- Other relevant non-ATSC courses include (but are not limited to):
- EOSC_V 211 - Computer Methods in EOAS (but if you already know python, then don't take)
- EOSC_V 250 - Fields and Fluxes (very mathematical)
- CHEM_V 302 - Atmos. Environ. Chemistry
- EOSC_V 340 - Global Climate Change
- EOSC_V 410 (Fall) - Geoscientific data analysis
- EOSC_V 440 - Physical Climate Modeling
- MECH_V 411 - Air Pollution, Technology & Society
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- (*note that all "online" courses have an in-person, written final exam.)
- Updates to this teaching plan will be posted here (under construction).
Acceptable alternatives to GEOS_V 402 Air Pollution Meteorology are
- MECH_V 411 Air Pollution, Technology and Society (see info above), or
- CHEM_V 302 Atmospheric Environmental Chemistry, or
ATSC_V 405 Cloud Physics and Chemistry. is offered every 2nd year. The next offering by Prof. Phil Austin is scheduled for January 2026.
PHYS_V 314 Fluids has not been offered for many years. For ATSC Honours students, acceptable alternatives are
- MECH_V 280 Intro to Fluid Mechanics or
- CIVL_V 215 Fluid Mechanics 1.
- Caution: these alternatives are NOT upper-level courses.
GEOG_V 312: We asked Science advising to allow GEOG 312, Climate Change: Science and Society to be counted against the arts requirement, so that students could get credit for both GEOG 312 and EOSC 340: Global Climate Change, since there is essentially no overlap in material, and GEOG 312 places a heavy emphasis on policy/society topics.