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 ...

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

Cryosphere and polar science study the frozen water part of the Earth system, ranging from the glaciers of Greenland to the ice sheets of the Antarctic. Antarctica photo by Jack Pan. Investigating ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

The Scripps O 2 Program measures changes in atmospheric oxygen levels from air samples collected at stations around the world. CAICE is a Center for Chemical Innovation focused on the fundamental ...

As a department of UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography offers degrees, minors and more than 45 undergraduate courses covering a breadth of earth and marine sciences on a variety of ...