Curators teach in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. The Institute conducts theoretical and experimental research in climate, planetary atmospheres, and astrophysics. The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences has one MA-only program, a dualmaster's degree program with the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, described in the next section. An undergraduate major in one or more of the natural sciences. One college year, with high record, of chemistry, mathematics, and physics.
Additional competence is required for graduate work in certain branches.