Graduate student assistantships

Dr. Geerts’s research supports several graduate research assistantships (GAs). The GA stipend allows you to live comfortably as a student in Laramie. A GA includes the cost of tuition, fees, and health insurance. Our GA stipends are very competitive, and the stipend level depends on the student’s educational background, research experience, and progress made.

The primary research tools used by our group are the Wyoming Cloud Radar and King Air, but a range of resources is used, depending on the experiment, such as radiosondes, surface stations, scanning radars, profiling remote sensors, satellite data, and photogrammetric data. Even though the focus is on observations, we also use NWP model output and on occasion run our own WRF simulations.

Applications for the PhD track take precedence over MSc applications. Strong applicants with only a BSc degree may apply for admission at the PhD level. The most important application criteria are the GRE, any peer-reviewed publications, and the GPA (for US students). All students in the PhD track take a qualifying examination at the end of the first year, which emphasizes coursework. More details can be found on the Department’s pages.

The University of Wyoming is the only university in the state of Wyoming, and has only 11,000 students. Laramie is a small but vibrant college community with ready access to the Snowy Range and other ranges in the Rockies. Laramie can be quite cold in winter, being at 2200 m altitude. It has the dual advantage of being close to the metropolitan areas of the Colorado Front Range, but without the high cost of living, traffic jams, and the hustle & bustle of the Front Range.