Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean about 1,000 miles off the coast of Ecuador, a fault line on the seafloor has been ...

Maira Mendez recently completed her bachelor’s degree in geosciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

Innovators from UC San Diego are prepared to present their commercially-promising, environmentally-focused technologies at the 14th annual Triton Sustainability Challenge, the university’s ...

Fernando Gonzalez is an early professional with a strong determination to explore the various avenues for structural change within higher education. As a UC San Diego alum and San Diego native, ...

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, ...

Quantitative descriptions of processes fundamental to the Earth, often focusing on modeling and inverse theory.

The study of earthquakes, the propagation of seismic waves, and Earth's internal structure.

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

The study of the origin and history of the solar system, planets and natural satellites, interplanetary dust and interstellar medium, lunar samples, meteors, and meteorites, asteroids, comets, craters ...

Studying the tectonic forces within the Earth give rise to continents, ocean basins, mountain ranges, earthquake belts, and most volcanoes, along with the resulting deformation of geological ...