The ocean has been absorbing carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions at an increasing rate since 1990, while the net uptake ...

Luca Centurioni is a physical oceanographer at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in physical oceanography from the University of ...

The study of the multiple ways that humans and society interact with the environment with disparate impacts as well as practical, inclusive approaches to address those impacts. Potential graduate ...

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 ...

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 ...

The study of the effects of climate changes on human health, particularly from an epidemiological perspective. Potential graduate students interested in this topic may want to apply for the Climate, ...

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 ...

Develops models and analyzes observations to understand the microphysical and chemical evolution of aerosol particles in the atmosphere. CAICE is a Center for Chemical Innovation focused on the ...

The study of the interactions between the oceans and land and the processes that shape coastal features and transport sediment and other materials near coastlines. Specializing in estuarine and ...

The Marine Vertebrate Collection maintains approximately 2 million alcohol-preserved specimens in over 120,000 lots, representing more than 5,600 species of fishes. Since its beginnings in the 1940s, ...

Scripps Oceanography researchers work in a variety of fields in biology, earth science, and oceans and atmospheric science. Select any of the topics below for a sampling of researchers in that field, ...

El Niño is a climate pattern that is declared when monthly sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean are measured above normal, for at least five consecutive ...