Notes from the Chair

In academic year 2018-19 our department adopted a strategic plan for research, teaching, and hiring. Our atmospheric science program had been established a few years before, but the faculty hiring was not yet complete, a wave of retirements had just begun that ultimately took more than one-third of our faculty, and we had just changed our name to Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. The five-year strategic plan aimed to maintain our core strengths across the geosciences, to build the atmospheric sciences program, and to recruit faculty in Earth sciences who filled our specific disciplinary gaps but who had research interests that intersected with three unifying themes: climate change, the ‘critical zone’, and Earth’s evolving crust.

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