Mar. 5, 2025 — Some parts of Hawai'i are sinking faster than others. That discovery also highlights that as sea level rises, the infrastructure, businesses, and communities in these low-lying ...

Physical oceanography is the study of the physics of marine systems. It includes the distribution of temperature and salinity, water mass formation and movement, ocean currents, interior and ...

In November 2024, our team of scientists, students, and engineers from the Multiscale Ocean Dynamics (MOD) group at UC San ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego works to understand and protect the planet and find solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges. Humankind faces catastrophic changes in ...

Given that the weather phenomenon can override others such as El Niño and La Niña, researchers at the Scripps Institution of ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography joins the rest of UC San Diego in celebrating Women’s History Month 2025, including ...

Our group's research focuses on the transport and fate of sediment, particulate organic matter, nutrients, and other material in coastal ocean environments. Waipaoa River plume entering the Pacific ...

Chris Algar’s group is interested in how microbes mediate the biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nutrients, such as nitrogen, in the marine environment. In particular, they investigate how these ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography recently released an RFP to shipyards to build the organizations innovative hydrogen ...

Students have the opportunity to collaborate with leading experts, to conduct fieldwork around the globe, to experience research at sea, and to participate in basic and advanced classes in all the sub ...

ATOC offers a Master’s and Ph.D. degree in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Students wishing to specialize in the Oceanography track will enroll in courses that satisfy the core curriculum ...