the Centre for Marine Studies was created in 1963, later renamed Oceanographical Institute. Under the leadership of Dr Max J. Dunbar, the Institute was managing Master and Doctorate programs in physical oceanography, and marine biology. In 1987, the Institute because the McGill department of Oceanography. In January 1992, the Meteorology department became the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences when the Oceanography department merged with it. Since its creation, the department has been a Canadian leader in the training of many distinguished atmospheric scientists. McGill has awarded over 230 M.Sc. degrees and more than 80 Ph.D. degrees in this field. Programs The department offers a BSc degree, with courses in atmospheric dynamics, thermodynamics and chemistry, in cloud physics, in climatology and general oceanography. The students maybe follow training toward research, a teaching, or operational meteorologist. The department offers one year certificates for students coming from other departments, like physics, to pursue M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs in meteorology and oceanography. In M.Sc. and Ph.D., the speciality are: Atmospheric chemistry Dynamics of climates and paleoclimates Physical meteorology physique and cloud physics Atmospheric dynamics and synoptic scale meteorology Data analysis and numerical weather predictions Convection and other severe weather Fluid dynamics and turbulence Physical oceanography Weather radar and remote sensing of precipitation See also Burnside Hall J.S. Marshall Radar Observatory Weather radar External links Official website References Meteorological research institutes S