Prospective Graduate Students

Our program will provide students an interdisciplinary learning environment that will offer the knowledge, critical thinking, and scientific research skills necessary to tackle present and future environmental problems. As a graduate student in the School of Environmental Science, you will join a community of passionate and like-minded researchers who strive to solve the most pressing environmental issues of our time. Our research areas can be divided into two areas:

• Physical Sciences:
  • Arctic science, carbon cycling, climatic controls on landscape evolution, climate change, coastal marine science, earth system science, (eco)geomorphology, environmental change over the Holocene, extreme events (storms, tsunamis, earthquakes), fluvial geomorphology, ocean acidification, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, paleoceanography, physics of sediment transport, post-wildfire environments, resource management, river dynamics, sedimentology, water security, watershed-scale sediment dynamics
• Ecological Sciences:
  • Anthropogenic stressors, community ecology, ecosystem functioning, environmental data (statistical) analysis, marine and terrestrial species at risk, meta-ecosystem ecology, modelling

Program Profile:

• Mentorship-based, in-person research training
• All students complete 30 units of graduate courses which include:
  
  • 1 Research Methods Course 
  • 1 Research Seminar Course 
  • 2 Elective Courses 
  • Master thesis 
•  Students will complete in 2 years
  
• Funding could be available, depending on the supervisor
  

Applications will open in May 2025 for Fall 2025 (domestic students) and Spring 2026 (domestic and international students). Sign up below to receive updates on the launch of our program.