This September, UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography invites the community to join in celebrating a milestone: ...

A new review paper led by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography warns that the rapid loss of oxygen from the ocean and other aquatic ecosystems is pushing Earth toward an ...

An enormous but poorly understood region of the global ocean—referred to as the abyssal benthic boundary layer—lies a few meters above the seafloor and has only been sampled a handful of times. A ...

The new report, authored by Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists, advances science and transparency in flood ...

Physical oceanography examines the motions, structure and energy exchanges that govern the ocean’s role in Earth’s climate and marine ecosystems. At its core are the wind-driven surface currents that ...

Description: Introduces descriptive and dynamical physical oceanography, focusing on the nature and dynamics of ocean currents and their role in the distribution of heat and other aspects of ocean ...

Satellite Oceanography involves use of Satellite Remote Sensing for studying ocean circulation and climate change utilizing both active microwave sensors (altimeters, scatterometers, imagers) and ...