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Graduate
Marine Sciences
PREREQUISITE
| SUBDISCIPLINES | FACULTY |
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Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at North Carolina
State University offers courses of study leading to the M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences with specializations
in Biological, Chemical, Geological, and Physical Oceanography. Since
its inception more than 65 MS and 35 PhD students have received their
degrees from the program. The following provides information on the
application procedure, student support, research grants, faculty,
and their area of expertise, subdiscipline descriptions, and course
offerings. If further information is required, please contact the
appropriate faculty member or the graduate administrator by writing
or calling (919) 515-7776. |
PREREQUISITE
Applicants
are expected to have completed their B.S. programs before entering
the M.S. program. An M.S. Degree is expected of applicants to the
Ph.D program. Students may apply before their previous degree has
been earned but must complete this work before entering the program.
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DESCRIPTION
OF SUBDISCIPLINES
| Biological
Oceanography |
 Students
in the biological area are supervised by the biological core
faculty in the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
and by faculty members, housed in other departments, who have
marine interests. Interdepartmental cooperation makes available
a considerable breadth of expertise to students of biological
oceanography. |
| Facilities
available for work in marine biology include in addition to
campus laboratories, the facilities of the National Marine Fisheries
Service Laboratory at Beaufort, the UNC Institute of Marine
Science at Morehead City, and the N.C. Marine Resource Centers
in Dare, Carteret, and New Hanover counties. Small boats are
available through several of these facilities; time on larger
vessels is available through the Duke University Marine Laboratory
in Beaufort. Staff members have also been involved in cooperative
studies using the facilities at the Smithsonian Environmental
Research Center, Edgewater, MD, on Chesapeake Bay. |
| Specialized
equipment available for biological research includes an automated
motion analyzer, temperature/light control incubators, electrophoresis
apparatus, video equipment, fluorescence microscope, digitizer
and electronics for radio-and ultrasonic tracking and telemetry,
gas and liquid chromatographs, CHNS analyzer, stable isotope
mass spectrometers, campus E.M. center, and nutrient autoanalyzers. |
Chemical
Oceanography |
| Graduate
studies in chemical oceanography provide students a fundamental
understanding of inorganic and organic chemical processes occurring
in estuarine, coastal and deep-sea environments. Topics discussed
in the various marine chemistry courses include biogeochemistry,
diagenesis, chemical sedimentology, the use of stable isotope
and radiochemical tracers in the marine environment, as well
as chemical transport across the air-sea and sediment-water
interfaces. The department has access to a coastal laboratory
in addition to the chemical and radiochemical laboratories on
main campus. Interactions with other oceanographic disciplines
enable students to receive a diverse education in the marine
sciences. |
Geological
Oceanography |
| Graduate
education at North Carolina State University provides an excellent
opportunity for students interested in geological oceanography.
Faculty members have active research interests in many areas
of the world ocean, as well as in North Carolina coastal waters.
Ongoing projects provide students with extensive experience
in shipboard and field aspects of research, and land-based laboratories
provide facilities for analysis of samples and data. Coursework
covers the relevant aspects of geological oceanography--including
sedimentology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleooceanography,
sea-level, and climate change. Faculty members in adjacent fields
are anxious to interact with geological research, and help to
provide a well-rounded educational program. |
Physical
Oceanography and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics |
| The
goals of the physical oceanographer and geophysical fluid dynamicist
are to obtain a systematic description and understanding of
the character and motion of the ocean waters. This includes
the chemical and physical properties of seawater, as well as
the fundamental physical dynamical concepts essential to an
understanding of the oceans. A fully integrated approach of
field observations, laboratory studies and theoretical modeling
are needed to gain knowledge of the motion of the oceans. Currently
five faculty members are conducting research in physical oceanography
and geophysical fluid dynamics. Their interests include field
oriented research and theoretical studies of large-scale ocean
circulation, and coastal and estuarine dynamics. Facilities
for coastal and continental shelf research, as well as for activities
in such areas as the equatorial Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
and the Indian Ocean, are available through the State of North
Carolina, the Federal Government and cooperative efforts with
other oceanographic institutions worldwide. Oceanographic cruises
in which students participate and gain valuable field experience
occur on a regular basis to areas ranging from the coast of
North Carolina to the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and Arctic. |
| A
Quorum Communications Satellite HPRT Receive Stations and University
of Miami DSP Imaging Processing Software are utilized to obtain
realtime visible, infrared and ocean color imagery for the western
North Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Nova Scotia. Computational
facilities include a departmentally operated DEC Micro-VAX 3500
(VMS) and IBM R/S6000-530 (UNIX) computers and associated terminals,
workstations, and personal computers (IBM and Macintosh) and
laser printers. In addition, the department operates the "Facility
for Oceanographic and Atmospheric Modeling and Visualization
(FOAMv) which includes a 16-processor IBM Power Visualization
Server (a visualization supercomputer), IBM Visualization workstations,
a cluster of workstations for parallel computer modeling and
12 workstations configured in a research/teaching environment
for student use. |
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DEPARTMENTAL
FACULTY IN MARINE SCIENCE
| D.
Bohnenstiehl, PhD, Columbia University, 2002. Marine Geophysics; underwater acoustics; technology transfer; low frequency active sonar. (delwayne_bohnenstiehl@ncsu.edu) |
| D.
J. DeMaster, PhD, Yale University, 1979. Marine geochemistry
and radiochemistry in nearshore and deep-sea environments. (dave_demaster@ncsu.edu) |
| D.
B. Eggleston, PhD, College of William and Mary, 1991.
Experimental marine benthic ecology. Marine fisheries ecology.
(eggleston@ncsu.edu) |
| R.
He, PhD, University of South Florida, 2002.
Physical oceanography. Coastal and estuarine circulation dynamics; numerical modeling and data assimilation; bio-physical interaction; coastal ocean observing system.
(rhe@ncsu.edu) |
| G.
S. Janowitz, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1967. Dynamics
of internal gravity and Rossby waves, geophysical fluid mechanics
and numerical modeling. (janowitz@ncsu.edu) |
| D.
Kamykowski, PhD, University of California at San Diego,
1973. Effects of physical and chemical factors on planktonic
behavior, physiology and natural distribution. (dan_kamykowski@ncsu.edu) |
| E.
L. Leithold, PhD, University of Washington, 1987. Nearshore
and shelf sedimentation and stratigraphy, sediment transport.
(leithold@ncsu.edu) |
| J.
P. Liu, PhD, College of Williams & Mary, 2001. Late
quaternary sea level change and ocean margin evolution; large
river deltaic deposits and sedimentary processes; Land-ocean
interactions; watershed and estuarine GIS modeling; geophysical
surveys (jpliu@ncsu.edu) |
| L.
J. Pietrafesa, PhD, University of Washington, 1973.
Estuarine and coastal processes and geophysical fluid dynamics.
(len_pietrafesa@ncsu.edu) |
| P.
T. Shaw, PhD, MIT--Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
1982. Theoretical and numerical modeling of ocean circulation.
Lagrangian study of deep-sea drifters. (pt_shaw@ncsu.edu) |
| W.
J. Showers, PhD, University of Hawaii, 1982. Stable
isotope geochemistry, paleoceanography, ground water pollution,
geochemistry of phosphates. (w_showers@ncsu.edu) |
| C.J.
Thomas, PhD, North Carolina State University, 1998.
Isotope geochemistry, biogeochemistry, animal-sediment interactions.
(cjthomas@unity.ncsu.edu) |
| T.
G. Wolcott, PhD, University of California at Berkeley,
1971. Physiological ecology of marine invertebrates, land crabs,
biotelemetry and instrumentation. (tom_wolcott@ncsu.edu) |
| L.
Xie, PhD, University of Miami 1992. Air-sea interaction
processes. (lian_xie@ncsu.edu) |
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