Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences: Geodata Science for Professionals Concentration, MS

Location(s): West Lafayette

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About the Program

The Geodata Science for Professionals (GDSP) is a non-thesis program. Students enrolled in the program can not receive teaching, research, or other graduate assistantships with fee remissions from Purdue by university regulation. Instead, students are anticipated to be supported by their employers, governments, endowed scholarships, or themselves the whole time in the program. We try to match our program fees and tuition to the Purdue standard Graduate/Professional tuition published by the Office of the Bursar, which is subject to change.

The program aims to train a highly competitive workforce that can harness geoscience (such as weather, climate, geophysical, and environmental) data for decision-support in public and private sectors. The program offers courses to professionals with a STEM background, and teaches analysis and computing methods with geoscience data, foundational geoscience content knowledge, and data-driven applications in geoscience applications complementary to the technical areas of data science. These technical areas include: statistical theories and models, statistical and machine-learning methods, algorithms for statistical and machine-learning methods as well as optimization, and computational systems for data analysis.

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Program Requirements

31 Credits Required

Required Courses (21 credits)

Data Science Core Courses (6 credits)

Choose two.

EAPS 50700 - Introduction To Analysis And Computing With Geoscience Data Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 50801 - Geographic Information Systems Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 51000 - Climate Time Series Analysis Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 51500 - Geodata Science Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 65700 - Geophysical Inverse Theory Credit Hours: 3.00

Foundational Core Courses (9 credits)

Choose three.

EAPS 50701 - Geospatial Data Analytics Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 52000 - Theory Of Climate Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 52100 - Atmospheric Chemistry Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 52300 - Radar Meteorology Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 52500 - Boundary Layer Meteorology Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 52600 - Introductory Geofluid Dynamics Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 52700 - Principles Of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 52900 - Modeling Ecosystems And Biogeochemical Cycles Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 53200 - Cloud And Precipitation Microphysics Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 53300 - Atmospheric Radiation Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 53600 - Introduction To General Circulation Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 53900 - Mesoscale Meteorology Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 55700 - Introduction To Seismology Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 57700 - Remote Sensing Of The Planets Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 58400 - Hydrogeology Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 59100 - Advanced Topics In Earth And Atmospheric Sciences Credit Hours: 0.00 to 18.00
Titles:
- Integr. Global System Modeling
- Isotope Hydrology
- Karst Geomorphology
- Stable Isotopes
- Physics and Mechanics of Earth Materials
- Planetary Habitability
EAPS 68000 - Contaminant Hydrogeology Credit Hours: 3.00
AAE 52300 - Introduction To Remote Sensing Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 57100 - Earthquake Engineering Credit Hours: 3.00

Applied Courses (6 credits)

Choose two.

AAE 57500 - Introduction To Satellite Navigation And Positioning Credit Hours: 3.00
ABE 65100 - Environmental Informatics Credit Hours: 3.00
AGRY 54500 - Remote Sensing Of Land Resources Credit Hours: 3.00
ASM 54000 - Geographic Information System Application Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 54900 - Computational Watershed Hydrology Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 53000 - Extreme Weather And Climate: Science And Risk Credit Hours: 3.00
EAPS 55900 - Topics In Seismology Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00
EAPS 59100 - Advanced Topics In Earth And Atmospheric Sciences Credit Hours: 0.00 to 18.00
Titles:
- Introduction to Reflection Seismology
- Environmental Data Model Assimilation
- Laboratory Analysis
- Space & Planetary Instrument
- Geospatial Modeling and Analysis
FNR 55800 - Remote Sensing Analysis And Applications Credit Hours: 3.00
ILS 59500 - Special Topics In Information And Data Science Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00
PHYS 56700 - Observational Techniques In Astronomy Credit Hours: 3.00

Computational and Statistical Electives (6 credits)

Choose two. Alternatively, students can take a CS, STAT, and MA Data Science course alongside an online, five-week module in Data Science Foundational Topics for 1 credit.

MA 52700 - Advanced Mathematics For Engineers And Physicists I Credit Hours: 3.00 or
MA 52800 - Advanced Mathematics For Engineers And Physicists II Credit Hours: 3.00
ECE 53800 - Digital Signal Processing I Credit Hours: 3.00
MA 51100 - Linear Algebra With Applications Credit Hours: 3.00
MA 59800 - Topics In Mathematics Credit Hours: 1.00 to 5.00 Title: Machine Learning and Uncertainty Quantification for Data Science
ME 57900 - Fourier Methods In Digital Signal Processing Credit Hours: 3.00
PHYS 58000 - Computational Physics Credit Hours: 3.00
STAT 51100 - Statistical Methods Credit Hours: 3.00
STAT 51200 - Applied Regression Analysis Credit Hours: 3.00
STAT 51300 - Statistical Quality Control Credit Hours: 3.00
STAT 51400 - Design Of Experiments Credit Hours: 3.00
STAT 51600 - Basic Probability And Applications Credit Hours: 3.00
STAT 51700 - Statistical Inference Credit Hours: 3.00
STAT 52700 - Introduction To Computing For Statistics Credit Hours: 3.00
STAT 69500 - Seminar In Mathematical Statistics Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00 Title: D&R with DeltaRho for Big Data & High Computational Complexity (cannot be taken with EAPS51500)

Internship (3 credits)

Students register in 3 credits of EAPS 59100 to fulfill the internship requirement, completed with a written MS Project Report for each internship. The credit hours can be broken into 1 credit of off-campus internship in a semester and 2 credits of written MS Project Report in the following semester.

Students are encouraged to seek internship opportunities through Purdue Office of Professional Development, Purdue Weather and Climate Risk Internship Program, and Purdue Data Mine “Data Science in Industry I and II”.

EAPS 59100 - Advanced Topics In Earth And Atmospheric Sciences Credit Hours: 0.00 to 18.00 (Credits: 3.00 total)

Seminar Course (1 credit)

Students are required to register for 1 credit of the GDS Seminar and orally present the results of their internship or applied research experience. This is in addition to their written MS Project Report.

EAPS 59100 - Advanced Topics In Earth And Atmospheric Sciences Credit Hours: 0.00 to 18.00 (Credit: 1.00 total)

Program Learning Outcomes

Students will:

GPA Requirements

Students are expected to maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0/4.0. Failure to do so will result in the student being identified as “Less Than Good Standing” in academic standing by the University. Students so identified will not be awarded a degree. A student remaining in “Low” academic standing for three consecutive semesters will be notified by the EAPS Graduate Committee to terminate their program.

The courses should generally be 500/600-level but a maximum of 6 credits at the 300/400-level are allowed. A maximum of 6 credits of independent study are allowable in the 18 credit minimum. Students must take a minimum of 9 credits of EAPS courses.

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