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Atmospheric and Geological Sciences

The Atmospheric and Geological Sciences Department at SUNY Oswego offers students a wide range of unique and practical experiences that result in our graduates successfully finding diverse employment and acceptance to graduate schools after graduation.

Our students learn best from hands-on experience, and as a result, our students are regularly outside collecting data, making analyses and tackling real-life problems. The proximity to a diversity of world-class rock exposures and the regularity of exceptional meteorological conditions, combined with faculty highly active in research and eager to involve students, makes the undergraduate experience through this department one-of-a-kind. We believe that a strong classical background in the discipline combined with strong faculty student relationships make SUNY Oswego the ideal place to get a degree in this field.

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Student Meteorology

Yesterday's weather over Lake Ontario, as seen from SUNY Oswego. This footage is updated daily. While aesthetically pleasing, timelapses of weather systems also have pedagogical value. 

Department News

SUNY Oswego storm-chasing students pause (from a safe distance) with a supercell near Tahoka, Texas

SUNY Oswego storm-chasing students study twisters across Tornado Alley

Tom White and Zoe Bush, who just earned their meteorology degrees in May, look over data from their research with Climavision related to gap-filling radar

Meteorology students research radar use for better weather forecasting

Students and instructors from SUNY Oswego’s storm-chasing class caught a lot of severe weather when traveling through the area on May 29. (Sarah Gryskewicz photo)

Storm-chasing SUNY Oswego students dodge tornadoes in northwest Texas