LEAP'S EDUCATION REACH
LEAP’s research and areas of focus are reflected in a broad range of courses and programs with which LEAP researchers are affiliated, both at Columbia University and at LEAP’s partner institutions.
Relevant Courses + Educational Resources
Columbia University has multiple undergraduate majors and minors related to LEAP’s mission. Many LEAP senior personnel are affiliated with these programs and LEAP has established contacts with program directors of these programs.
- BA in Climate System Science
- BA in Earth Science
- BA in Environmental Science
- BA in Climate and Sustainability
- Minor in Climate System Science
- Minor in Earth and Environmental Science
- BS in Earth and Environmental Engineering
- Minor in Earth and Environmental Engineering
- BS in Computer Science
- BS in Informational Science
- BA in Statistics
- Minor in Statistics
Earth System Sciences – University of California at Irvine
Applied Computational Physics – City University of New York
Columbia University has graduate programs related to LEAP’s mission. Multiple LEAP senior personnel are affiliated with these programs and LEAP has established contacts with program directors of these programs.
- Doctoral programs in Earth and Environmental Science
- PhD in Earth and Environmental Engineering
- MS in Earth and Environmental Engineering
- PhD in Computer Science
- MS in Computer Science
- PhD in Statistics
- MA in Statistics
- MS in Climate
- MA in Climate and Society
University of California at Irvine
- PhD in Earth System Science
- MS program in AI for Science
Teachers College, Columbia University
LEAP Courses at Columbia University
- Machine Learning (ML) for Environmental Engineering & Science
- Machine Learning (ML) for Climate Science & Environmental Sustainability
- Idealized Models of Climate Processes
- Humans and the Carbon Cycle
LEAP collaborates with introductory courses in Computer Science and Machine Learning at Columbia for research and education integration
- Computing in Context (Computer Science)
- AI in Context (interdepartmental)
- Advanced Machine Learning (Statistics)
- Applied Data Science (Statistics)
University of California at Irvine
- Data Analysis for Earth Sciences
University of California at San Diego
- Data Science Programming
- Deep Learning
- The Practice and Application of Data Science
City University of New York
- An Introduction to the Physics of Natural Disasters
- Fluid Mechanics
- Environmental Economics
LEAP’s courses at Columbia University:
- Climate Prediction Challenges with Machine Learning
- Special Topics in Earth + Environmental Engineering: Readings in Climate Data Science
- Research Computing in Earth & Environmental Sciences
LEAP collaborates with Columbia Business School’s Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change on their climate related electives.
University of California at Irvine:
- Deep Generative Models (featuring a module on “GenAI for Climate”)
Teachers College, Columbia University:
- AI & The Environment
- Climate Change, Society and Education
University of California at San Diego:
- Generative AI
- AI Seminar
- Deep Learning for Environmental Science
New York University:
- Data-driven Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Climate Dynamics
- Machine Learning for Climate Change
City University of New York:
- Machine Learning in Physics and Astronomy
- Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
LEAP:
City University of New York:
- LEAP: Momentum Bootcamp
- LEAP: Summer Institute for K-12 teachers
- Open Climate Curriculum Initiative led by Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change at Columbia Business School
- Climatematch Academy: with whom LEAP shares open-source education and free access to LEAP Pangeo
- Generative Modeling Summer School (Nice, France, 2025)
- Rising Stars in Data Science
- YouTube collections of fundamental courses in Data Science and Statistics (Fernandez-Granda)