For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

Kris Wang is a fourth-year undergraduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, where he is studying geosciences with a focus on volcanology and igneous petrology.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has received a $15 million grant from the Fund for Science and Technology (FFST). This support will expand observational ...

A program focused on key storm systems, known as atmospheric rivers, that provides students with hands-on research experience ...

The study of the ecology of marine communities that live on or near the rocks and sediments of the ocean floor. (Crab photo courtesy biological oceanographer Lisa Levin.) CMBC promotes ...

CASPO is a research unit of Scripps Institution of Oceanography where scientists engage in a wide variety of scientific topics involving mainly the physical ocean-atmosphere system, but including many ...

Biochemical and physiological mechanisms of adaptation of organisms to the marine environment. Special emphasis is on biological responses to temperature, salinity, carbon dioxide, pH and bicarbonate ...

The study of the radiation, transmission, and scattering of sound, with particular emphasis on low-frequency sounds related to earth processes.

Tracking the flow of natural and manmade elements through the environment to better understand physical systems.

Collecting and processing data on the earth, oceans, and atmosphere using cameras, lasers, and a variety of electromagnetic sensors.

The primary area of research is air-sea interaction, including the topics of surface wave dynamics, air-sea fluxes, upper ocean turbulence, including Langmuir circulations, and the remote sensing of ...