The Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (MEAS) at North Carolina State University is one of the largest interdisciplinary physical science departments in the nation. MEAS offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in Atmospheric Science/Meteorology, Geology, and Marine Science.

Dr. Gary Lackmann and his research team, with help from the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), learn how climate change might affect tropical storms. Read about their research and view a computer-animated model of Hurricane Katrina.

Paleontologist Dr. Julia Clarke, along with her postdoctoral researcher Daniel Ksepka and Peruvian collaborators, has discovered two extinct penguin species that once reached the Earth’s equatorial regions.

Read about Keren Cepero (MEAS grad student in atmospheric sciences) and her participation in the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP). Her focus is on trying to improve a flash floods forecast model.

MEAS' dinosaur research is once again featured in NC State's Scope Magazine, Fall Issue '07.

Dr. Mary Schweitzer's dinosaur discovery is ranked No. 10 of 2007 by Discover Magazine (January '08 issue).