Giant kelp forests, an icon of the San Diego coastline, are in retreat as a result of climate change– Off the coast, water ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

A global network of robotic floats that measure the changing state of the ocean. Develops and implements coastal observatories, serves as a science and technical interface with local, state, and ...

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 ...