Prospective Students and Researchers

We tackle a wide range of interdisciplinary ocean & environmental science questions (download pdf current_projects_doney_2024_09 and see Research Webpage). In many cases, we  primarily use computational methods; students often do a fair amount of data analysis, remote sensing, and numerical modeling work. There are also possibilities of participating in field work in conjunction with a computational research project.

The Environmental Sciences Departments as a webpage on the application process for prospective graduate students

A good place to start in developing some computational skills and background is a book that we developed for a hands-on graduate course in the MIT/WHOI Oceanography Joint Program (taught in Matlab):

Glover, D.M., W.J. Jenkins, and S.C. Doney, 2011: Modeling Methods for Marine Science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 592 pp., www.cambridge.org/glover ISBN-13: 9780521867832

Classes

EVSC 1010 Introduction to Environmental Sciences
Spring 2025 & 2024
Lower-division survey course covering four major disciplines: geology, hydrology, atmospheric science and ecology

EVSC 1080 Resources & Environment
Fall 2024 & 2022 (co-instructor in Fall 2022 with Dr. Joy Ferenbaugh)
Scheduled for Fall 2025
Lower-division course covering the environmental impacts of human resource demands (food, water, and energy); topics range from acid rain and smog to climate change

EVSC 2850 Polar Environments co-taught with Prof. Lauren Simkins
Spring 2022, 2021, 2020 & 2019 (listed as EVSC 2559 in 2019 & 2020)
Lower-division course covering cold, ice-dominated polar environments of the Arctic and Antarctic covering: cryosphere (glaciers, ice-sheets, sea-ice, snow, permafrost, and hydrates); polar ecosystems, biodiversity and natural resources; polar-related cultural, economic, and national security issues

EVSC 4066/7066 Changing Global Carbon Cycle
Fall 2021 & 2019, Spring 2018  (taught as EVSC 4559/7559 in Spring 2018)
Upper-division and graduate courses covering natural processes controlling the global carbon cycle and human perturbations including fossil fuel use, agriculture and land-use change, atmospheric build-up, and land biosphere and ocean uptake

EVSC 4559/7559 Climate Resilience co-taught with Prof. Karen McGlathery
Fall 2019
Upper-division and graduate courses covering vulnerabilities, resilience, and solutions for land coastal systems

EVSC 4991 The Theory and Practice of Biodiversity Conservation co-taught with EVSC and Law faculty
Spring 2025 & 2024
Capstone upper-division class for students in conservation specialization; uses case studies to examine natural science, economic, political and legal frames for conservation decisions

EVSC 4559/7559 Marine Biogeochemistry
Fall 2018
Upper-division and graduate courses covering physical oceanography, seawater composition and chemistry, stable and radioactive isotopes, box and advection-diffusion models, marine biological pump, air-sea gas exchange, particle fluxes and sediments, and ocean history and climate

EVSC 4559/7559 Coastal Resilience co-taught with Prof. Karen McGlathery
Fall 2018
Upper-division and graduate courses covering vulnerabilities, resilience, and solutions for coastal systems; topics include sea-level rise and flooding, nutrient pollution, climate change, and ocean acidification

EVSC 5060 Coastal Oceanography co-taught with Prof. Matt Reidenbach
Spring 2021 & 2019
Interdisciplinary upper-division and graduate course covering physical, ecological and biogeochemical processes occurring along coastlines and within coastal ecosystems.

EVEC 5559 Marine Microbiome
Spring 2022
Upper-division and graduate course covering marine microbiology, ecology and biogeochemistry