Course Syllabuses
This is a collection of Scripps course syllabuses. The syllabuses are archived by the academic year. Each syllabus is listed under the format ([term offered] [instructor]). Please note that not all courses are taught on an annual basis.
For course descriptions, either click on the course number or visit the UCSD Catalog.
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| Course | Course Title | 2021-22 | 2020-21 | 2019-20 |
| SIO 1 | The Planets | WI20 Pommier | ||
| SIO 3 | Life in the Oceans | WI20 Aburto-Oropeza | ||
| SIO 10 | The Earth | SP22 Borsa | SP20 Borsa | |
| SIO 12 | History of the Earth and Evolution | FA21 Peach | ||
| SIO 15 | Natural Disasters | WI22 Laske | FA20 Laske | FA19 Laske |
| SIO 16 | Geology of the National Parks | SP22 Gee | SP21 Gee | SP20 Gee |
| SIO 20 | The Atmosphere | WI22 J. Norris | WI21 Wall | WI20 J. Norris |
| SIO 25 | Climate Change and Society | WI22 Teranes | WI21 Teranes | WI20 Teranes |
| SIO 30 | The Oceans | FA21 MacKinnon & Castillo | FA20 Castillo & MacKinnon | |
| SIO 35 | Water | |||
| SIO 40 | Life and Climate on Earth | FA21 Barbeau | FA20 Barbeau | |
| SIO 45 | Volcanoes | WI22 Cook | WI21 Cook | WI20 Cook |
| SIO 50 | Introduction to Earth and Environmental Sciences | FA21 Cook / SP22 Cook | FA20 Cook / SP21 Cook | SP20 Cook |
| SIO 60 | Experiences in Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences | FA21 Ricke & Lucas | ||
| SIO 65 | Geosciences Seminar | WI22 Teranes | ||
| SIO 75 | Geological History of Earth | SP22 Chin & R. Norris | ||
| SIO 87 | First-year Seminars | FA21 Gerwick / FA21 Cook / SP22 Moore | FA20 Gilbert / WI21 Cook / SP21 Lutsko | WI20 Sandin |
| SIO 90 | Undergraduate Seminar | FA20 Bowman | ||
| SIO 100 | Introduction to Field Methods | FA21 Norris & Gee | WI21 R. Norris & Chin | |
| SIO 101 | California Coastal Oceanography | |||
| SIO 102 | Introduction to Geochemistry | WI22 Day | ||
| SIO 103 | Introduction to Geophysics | FA21 Parnell-Turner | FA20 Parnell-Turner | WI20 Parnell-Turner & C. Constable |
| SIO 104 | Paleobiology and History of Life | |||
| SIO 105 | Sedimentology and Stratigraphy | FA21 Driscoll | ||
| SIO 106 | Introduction to Hydrogeology | FA19 Brown & Willenbring | ||
| SIO 108 | Introduction to Paleoclimatology | FA21 Teranes | ||
| SIO 109 | Bending Curve: Climate Change | SP20 Ramanathan & Forman | ||
| SIO 110 | Introduction to GIS and GPS for Scientists | FA21 Batchelor | ||
| SIO 111 | Introduction to Ocean Waves | WI22 Feddersen | SP21 Feddersen | SP20 Salmon & Becker |
| SIO 113 | Introduction to Computational Earth Science | SP21 May | SP20 Tauxe | |
| SIO 115 | Ice and the Climate System | |||
| SIO 116 | Climate Change & Global Health | WI22 Benmarhnia | WI20 Benmarhnia | |
| SIO 117 | The Physical Basis of Global Warming | FA21 Keeling | ||
| SIO 119 | Physics and Chemistry of the Oceans | WI21 Andersson & Send | WI20 Gille/Andersson | |
| SIO 120 | Introduction to Mineralogy | WI22 Cook | WI21 Cook | WI20 Cook |
| SIO 121 | Biology of the Cryosphere | |||
| SIO 122 | Ecological Development Biology | |||
| SIO 123 | Microbial Environmental Systems Biology | |||
| SIO 124 | Marine Natural Products | WI22 Jensen | WI20 Jensen | |
| SIO 125 | Biomechanics of Marine Life | SP22 Taylor | SP21 Taylor | SP20 Taylor |
| SIO 126 | Marine Microbiology | WI22 Palenik | WI21 Palenik | WI20 Palenik |
| SIO 127 | Marine Molecular Ecology | SP22 Burton | SP20 Burton | |
| SIO 128 | Microbial Life in Extreme Environments | SP20 Bartlett | ||
| SIO 131 | Parasitology | SP22 Hechinger | ||
| SIO 132 | Introduction to Marine Biology | FA20 Hechinger & Kacev | ||
| SIO 133 | Marine Mammal Biology | SP20 Baumann-Pickering & Kacev | ||
| SIO 134 | Introduction to Biological Oceanography | WI21 Barton | WI20 Barton | |
| SIO 135 | Satellite Remote Sensing | SP21 Fricker & Sandwell | SP20 Sandwell & Fricker | |
| SIO 136 | Marine Biology Laboratory | |||
| SIO 137 | Ecosystems and Fisheries | FA19 Choy | ||
| SIO 138 | The Coral Reef Environment | |||
| SIO 139 | Current Research in Marine Biology | WI20 Palenik | ||
| SIO 141 | Chemical Principles of Marine Systems | |||
| SIO 143 | Ocean Acidification | SP22 Andersson | SP21 Andersson | WI20 Andersson |
| SIO 144 | Introduction to Isotope Geochemistry | WI22 Day & Severinghaus | WI20 Castillo & Severinghaus | |
| SIO 147 | Applications of Phylogenetics | WI21 Rouse | ||
| SIO 152 | Petrology and Petrography | SP21 Chin | SP20 Chin | |
| SIO 155 | Whole Earth Geochemistry | |||
| SIO 160 | Introduction to Tectonics | SP21 Fialko | SP20 Stegman | |
| SIO 161 | Seismology | WI22 Fan | ||
| SIO 162 | Structural Geology | SP21 Brown | ||
| SIO 164 | Introduction to Marine Archeology | |||
| SIO 166 | Introduction to Environmental Archaeology | SP20 d'Alpoim Guedes | ||
| SIO 167 | Introduction to Geoarcheology | |||
| SIO 170 | Introduction to Volcanology | FA21 Cook | FA20 Cook | |
| SIO 171 | Introduction to Physical Oceanography | FA21 Rudnick | FA20 Rudnick | |
| SIO 172 | Introduction to Atmospheric Science | WI22 Evan | WI21 Evan | WI20 Evan |
| SIO 173 |
Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Climate |
SP22 Xie & Lutsko | SP21 Eisenman & Xie | |
| SIO 174 |
Chemistry of the Ocean and Atmosphere |
SP22 Severinghaus & Russell | SP21 Russell & Severinghaus | SP20 Russell & Dickson |
| SIO 175 | Analysis of Oceanic and Atmospheric Data | FA21 Merrifield | ||
| SIO 176 |
Observational Physical Oceanography |
SP20 Straneo | ||
| SIO 177 | Fluid Mechanics | FA21 Becker | FA20 Becker | FA19 Becker |
| SIO 178 | Geophyiscal Fluid Dynamics | WI21 Becker | WI21 Becker | WI20 Becker |
| SIO 179 | Ocean Instruments and Sensors | SP22 Martz | ||
| SIO 180 | Communicating Science to Informal Audiences | WI21 Paulenich | ||
| SIO 181 | Marine Biochemistry | SP22 Tresguerres & Harter | SP21 Tresguerres | SP20 Tresguerres |
| SIO 182 | Environmental and Exploration Geophysics | SP20 S. Constable | ||
| SIO 183 | Phycology: Marine Plant Biology | WI22 Smith | ||
| SIO 184 | Marine Invertebrates | WI22 Rouse | SP20 Rouse | |
| SIO 187 | Statistical Methods in Marine Biology | |||
| SIO 188 | Biology of Fishes | SP21 Hastings | WI20 Hastings | |
| SIO 189 | Pollution, Environment and Health | FA19 Hamdoun | ||
| SIO 190 | Special Topics in Earth Sciences | WI21 Becker | ||
| SIOC 201 | Geological Record of Climate Change | |||
| SIOC 202A | Fundamentals of Wave Physics | |||
| SIOC 202B | Fundamentals of Wave Physics | SP21 Hildebrand & Stramski | SP21 Stramski & Hildebrand | SP20 Hildebrand & Kuperman |
| SIOC 203A | Introduction to Applied Mathematics I | FA21 Llewellyn Smith | ||
| SIOC 203B | Introduction to Applied Mathematics II | WI22 Llewellyn Smith | WI21 Llewellyn Smith | WI20 Llewellyn Smith |
| SIOC 203C | Introduction to Applied Mathematics III | |||
| SIOC 204 | Acoustics | |||
| SIOC 205 | Estuarine and Coastal Processes | SP20 Giddings | ||
| SIOC 207A | Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing | FA21 Meyer | FA20 Meyer | |
| SIOC 207B | Digital Signal Processing I | |||
| SIOC 207C | Digital Signal Processing II | |||
| SIOC 207D | Array Processing | |||
| SIOC 208 | Seminar in Applied Ocean Sciences | |||
| SIOC 209 | Special Topics: Fall Quarter | |||
| SIOC 209 | Special Topics: Winter Quarter | |||
| SIOC 209 | Special Topics: Spring Quarter | SP22 Levy | ||
| SIOC 210 | Physical Oceanography | FA20 Purkey & Talley | ||
| SIOC 211A | Ocean Waves I | WI22 MacKinnon | WI20 Feddersen | |
| SIOC 211B | Ocean Waves II | |||
| SIOC 212A | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics I | WI22 Eisenman | WI21 Eisenman | WI20 Eisenman |
| SIOC 212B | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics II | SP22 Cessi | SP21 Cessi | SP20 Cessi |
| SIOC 213 | Turbulence and Mixing | |||
| SIOC 214A | Introduction to Fluid Mechanics | FA21 Salmon | ||
| SIOC 214B | Environmental Fluid Dynamics | |||
| SIOC 216 | Introduction to the Physics of Complex Systems | |||
| SIOC 217A | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences I | FA21 Russell | FA20 Russell | FA19 Russell |
| SIOC 217B | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences II | WI22 Norris | WI21 Xie | WI20 Xie |
| SIOC 217C | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences III | SP22 Lutsko | SP21 Lutsko | SP20 Ramanathan & Lutsko |
| SIOC 217D | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences IV | WI22 Russell / Keeling | ||
| SIOC 218A | Observational Methods | |||
| SIOC 218B | Practical Methods at Sea | |||
| SIOC 219 | Special Topics in Physical Oceanography: Fall Quarter | |||
| SIOC 219 | Special Topics in Physical Oceanography: Winter Quarter | WI22 MacKinnon & Young | ||
| SIOC 219 | Special Topics in Physical Oceanography: Spring Quarter | |||
| SIOC 219 | Observational Oceanography Seminar | FA21 Talley | ||
| SIOC 220 | Observations of Large-Scale Ocean Circulation | SP21 Talley | SP20 Talley | |
| SIOC 221A | Analysis of Physical Oceanographic Data (A) | FA21 Gille | FA20 Gille | FA 19 Gille |
| SIOC 221B | Analysis of Physical Oceanographic Data (B) | WI22 Rudnick | WI20 Merrifield & Rudnick | |
| SIOC 221C | Data Analysis Laboratory | FA21 Alford | FA20 Alford | FA19 Alford |
| SIOC 223 | Proposal Writing | WI20 Alford & Send | ||
| SIOC 224 | Numerical Modeling of the Climate System | SP22 Eisenman | SP20 Eisenman | |
| SIOC 225 | Ice Sheet-Ocean Interactions | WI20 Straneo | ||
| SIOC 235 | Ocean Atmosphere Interaction | SP22 Xie | SP20 Xie | |
| SIOC 237A | Introduction to Ocean Optics | SP21 Stramski | ||
| Ocean Color Remote Sensing | SP22 Stramski | |||
| SIOC 241 | Advanced Signal Processing | WI20 Kuperman | ||
| SIOC 251 | Radiation in the Atmosphere | SP21 Evan | ||
| SIOC 261 | Nearshore Physical Oceanography | SP20 Feddersen | ||
| SIOC 267 | Biogeochemistry | SP22 Keeling & Severinghaus | SP21 Severinghaus | |
| SIOC 293 | Ocean and Atmosphere Processes and Climate | WI20 Eddebbar | ||
| SIOC 296 | Special Topics: Climate Science & Policy Forum | |||
| SIOG 221 | Plate Tectonics in Practice | SP22 Parnell-Turner | ||
| SIOG 222 |
Introduction to Industry Seismic Reflection Methods and Applications |
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| SIOG 223A | Geophysical Data Analysis I | FA21 Morzfeld | FA20 Morzfeld | |
| SIOG 223B | Geophysical Data Analysis II | WI22 Agnew | SP21 Agnew | SP20 Agnew |
| SIOG 224 | Internal Constitution of the Earth | WI21 Laske & Stegman | WI20 Stegman | |
| SIOG 225 | Physics of Earth Materials | FA21 Fialko | FA20 Fialko | |
| SIOG 227A | Introduction to Seismology | WI22 Shearer | FA19 Shearer | |
| SIOG 227B | Advanced Seismology I | SP22 Shearer | ||
| SIOG 228 | Research Seminar | FA21 E Allen |
FA20 E. Allen / WI21 Barbeau | WI20 Kacev |
| SIOG 229 | Fundamentals of Gravity and Geodesy | WI21 Borsa & C. Constable | WI20 Borsa & C. Constable | |
| SIOG 230 | Introduction to Inverse Theory | SP21 C. Constable | ||
| SIOG 231 | Geomagnetism and Electromagnetism | |||
| SIOG 232 | Ethical and Professional Science | SP21 S. Constable & C. Constable | SP20 C. Constable & S. Constable | |
| SIOG 233 | Introduction to Computing at SIO | WI22 Shearer | ||
| SIOG 234 | Geodynamics | FA20 Sandwell | ||
| SIOG 236 | Satellite Remote Sensing | SP21 Fricker & Sandwell | SP20 Sandwell & Fricker | |
| SIOG 237 | Space Geodesy Seminar | WI21 Fialko | WI20 Xu, Sandwell, & Bock | |
| SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics: Fall Quarter | |||
| SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics: Winter Quarter | WI22 Morzfeld / WI22 May | ||
| SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics: Spring Quarter | SP22 Morzfeld / SP22 Fialko | SP21 Morzfeld | |
| SIOG 240 | Marine Geology | FA20 Charles & Gee | ||
| SIOG 242 | Geochronologic Methods and Applications | WI20 Willenbring | ||
| SIOG 249 | Special Topics in Marine Geology | |||
| SIOG 251 | Whole Earth Geochemistry | |||
| SIOG 252A | Introduction to Isotope Geochemistry | WI22 Day & Severinghaus | WI20 Castillo & Severinghaus | |
| SIOG 253 | Interactions of Oceanic Plates and the California Margin | FA19 Lonsdale & Castillo | ||
| SIOG 255 | Paleobiology and History of Life | |||
| SIOG 260 | Marine Chemistry | WI20 Dickson & Barbeau | WI20 Barbeau & Diaz | |
| SIOG 261 | Introduction to Rheology of Solid Earth | WI20 Pommier | ||
| SIOG 263 | Aqueous Chemistry | |||
| SIOG 268 | Seminar in Geochemistry and Marine Chemistry | WI21 Diaz | WI20 Aluwihare | |
| SIOG 269 | Special Topics in Marine Chemistry: Fall Quarter | FA21 Diaz | ||
| SIOG 269 | Special Topics in Marine Chemistry: Winter Quarter | WI22 Aarons | WI20 Martz | |
| SIOG 269 | Special Topics in Marine Chemistry: Spring Quarter | SP22 Choy & Aarons | ||
| SIOG 270 | The Archeology of Climate Change | WI20 Rivera-Collazo | ||
| SIOG 275 | Paleoethnobotany | |||
| SIOB 218 | Ocean & Coastal Law and Policy | FA21 Murray | ||
| SIOB 242A | Marine Biotechnology I: Tools and Methods | FA20 - Gilbert & Hamdoun | ||
| SIOB 242B | Marine Biotechnology II: Applications | WI20 Jensen & Moore | WI20 Jensen & Moore | |
| SIOB 242C | Marine Biotechnology III: Intro to Bioinformatics | |||
| SIOB 243 | Marine Paleoecology | |||
| SIOB 262 | Marine Chemical Biology Seminar | FA21 Jensen / WI 22 Moore | FA20 Jensen | WI20 Moore / FA19 Jensen / SP20 Gerwick |
| SIOB 264 | Biosynthesis of Marine Natural Products | SP22 Moore | SP20 Moore / Gerwick | |
| SIOB 265 | Marine Chemical Ecology | WI21 Jensen | ||
| SIOB 270 | Pelagic Ecology | SP22 Petrik & A Allen | WI20 Ohman & Allen | |
| SIOB 271 | Marine Zooplankton | |||
| SIOB 272 | Advanced Statistical Techniques | WI22 Sandin | WI21 Sandin | WI20 Sandin |
| SIOB 273 | Professional Ethics in Science | |||
| SIOB 274 | Natural History Below the Tides | |||
| SIOB 275A | Benthic Ecology | WI20 Leichter | ||
| SIOB 276 | Quantitative Theory of Populations and Communities | FA20 Sugihara | ||
| SIOB 276L | Quantitative Ecology Project Lab | SP20 Sugihara | ||
| SIOB 277 | Deep-Sea Biology | WI22 Choy & Levin | FA19 Levin & Choy | |
| SIOB 278 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: Fall Quarter | |||
| SIOB 278 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: Winter Quarter | WI22 Burton | WI21 Burton | |
| SIOB 278 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: Spring Quarter | SP21 Jensen | SP20 Ohman | |
| SIOB 280 | Biological Oceanography | FA21 Levin & Allen | ||
| SIOB 281 | Environmental Physiology and Biochemistry of Marine Organisms | SP20 Tresguerres | ||
| SIOB 282 | Phytoplankton Diversity | SP21 Palenik | ||
| SIOB 283 | Phycology: Marine Plant Biology | |||
| SIOB 284 | Marine Invertebrates | WI22 Rouse | ||
| SIOB 285 | Physical-Biological Interactions | |||
| SIOB 286 | Topics in Marine Science, Economics and Policy | WI21 Sandin | WI20 Mesnick | |
| SIOB 289 | Pollution, Environment, and Health | |||
| SIOB 291 | Biology Graduate Research Presentations | WI22 E Allen / SP22 Sandin | WI21 Gilbert | WI20 E. Allen / SP20 Semmens |
| SIOB 292 | Communicating Science to Informal Audiences | WI19 Paulenich | ||
| SIOB 294 | Biology of Fishes | SP21 Hastings | WI20 Hastings | |
| SIOB 296 | Special Topics in Marine Biology: Fall Quarter | FA21 Brazier | ||
| SIOB 296 | Special Topics in Marine Biology: Winter Quarter | WI22 Archer / WI22 Batchelor | WI21 Archer | WI20 Archer |
| SIOB 296 | Special Topics in Marine Biology: Spring Quarter | SP22 Semmens | ||
| SIO 295S | Introduction to Marine Biodiversity and Conservation—Seminar | |||
| SIO 295LS | Introduction to Marine Biodiversity and Conservation—Lab | |||
| MBC 258 | Marine Conservation and Communication Practicum 1 | FA21 Murray | ||
| ESYS 90 | Undergraduate Seminar | FA21 Teranes | ||
| ESYS 101 | Environmental Biology | FA21 Diaz & Taylor | ||
| ESYS 102 | The Solid and Fluid Earth | WI22 Aarons | ||
| ESYS 103 | Environmental Challenges: Science and Solutions | SP21 Teranes | ||
| ESYS 187A | Senior Internship Project | F21 Teranes | ||
| ESYS 187B | Senior Internship Project II | WI22 Teranes | ||
| CCS 102 | Research Perspectives on Climate Change | FA21 Puritty |