Course Syllabi
This is a collection of Scripps course syllabi. The syllabi are archived by the academic year. Each syllabus is saved 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.
To view a tentative listing of Scripps courses for the 2019-20 academic year, please visit https://scripps.ucsd.edu/education/courses.
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| Course | Course Title | 2019-20 | 2018-19 | 2017-18 |
| SIO 1 | The Planets | WI20 Pommier | WI19 Pommier | WI18 Pommier |
| SIO 3 | Life in the Oceans | WI20 Aburto-Oropeza | WI19 Aburto | |
| SIO 10 | The Earth | SP19 Borsa | SP18 Borsa | |
| SIO 12 | History of the Earth and Evolution | |||
| SIO 15 | Natural Disasters | FA19 Laske | FA18 Laske | FA17 Laske |
| SIO 16 | Geology of the National Parks | SP18 Gee | ||
| SIO 20 | The Atmosphere | WI20 J. Norris | WI19 Norris, J. | WI18 Norris, J. |
| SIO 25 | Climate Change and Society | WI20 Teranes | WI19 Teranes | WI18 Teranes |
| SIO 30 | The Oceans | FA19 Castillo/Holland/Send | S117 Inman / FA17 Castillo | |
| SIO 35 | Water | |||
| SIO 40 | Life and Climate on Earth | FA17 Barbeau | ||
| SIO 45 | Volcanoes | WI20 Cook | WI19 Cook | S117 Cook / WI18 Cook |
| SIO 50 | Introduction to Earth and Environmental Sciences | |||
| SIO 60 | Experiences in Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences | FA18 Lucas/Ricke | FA17 Lucas/Vanos | |
| SIO 87 | Freshman Seminar | WI20 Sandin | FA18 Norris, J. | |
| SIO 90 | Undergraduate Seminar | FA17 Harada | ||
| SIO 96 | Frontiers in Earth Sciences | |||
| SIO 100 | Introduction to Field Methods | |||
| SIO 101 | California Coastal Oceanography | |||
| SIO 102 | Introduction to Geochemistry | WI19 Kastner | WI18 Castillo/Day | |
| SIO 103 | Introduction to Geophysics | WI20 Parnell-Turner/C. Constable | WI19 Masters | |
| SIO 104 | Paleobiology and History of Life | |||
| SIO 105 | Sedimentology and Stratigraphy | |||
| SIO 106 | Introduction to Hydrogeology | FA19 Brown/Willenbring | ||
| SIO 108 | Introduction to Paleoclimatology | FA17 Teranes | ||
| SIO 109 | Bending Curve: Climate Change | WI17_Ramanathan/Forman | ||
| SIO 110 | Introduction to GIS and GPS for Scientists | WI18 Minster | ||
| SIO 111 | Introduction to Ocean Waves | |||
| SIO 113 | Introduction to Computational Earth Science | WI19 Tauxe | WI18 Tauxe | |
| SIO 114 | Analysis of Environmental Justice | |||
| SIO 115 | Ice and the Climate System | WI19 Fricker | ||
| SIO 116 | Climate Change & Global Health | WI20 Benmarhnia | WI18 Benmarhnia | |
| SIO 117 | The Physical Basis of Global Warming | |||
| SIO 119 | Physics and Chemistry of the Oceans | WI20 Gille/Andersson | WI19 Gille | WI18 Gille/Andersson |
| SIO 120 | Introduction to Mineralogy | WI20 Cook | WI19 Cook | WI18 Cook |
| SIO 121 | Biology of the Cryosphere | SP18 Bowman | ||
| SIO 122 | Ecological Development Biology | |||
| SIO 123 | Microbial Environmental Systems Biology | |||
| SIO 124 | Marine Natural Products | WI20 Jensen | SP18 Jensen | |
| SIO 125 | Biomechanics of Marine Life | |||
| SIO 126 | Marine Microbiology | WI20 Palenik | WI19 Palenik | WI18 Palenik |
| SIO 126L | Marine Microbiology Laboratory | |||
| SIO 127 | Marine Molecular Ecology | SP19 Burton | SP18 Burton | |
| SIO 128 | Microbial Life in Extreme Environments | |||
| SIO 129 | Marine Chemical Ecology | |||
| SIO 131 | Parasitology | SP18 Hechinger | ||
| SIO 132 | Introduction to Marine Biology | |||
| SIO 133 | Marine Mammal Biology | SP18 Hildebrand/Ballance | ||
| SIO 134 | Introduction to Biological Oceanography | WI20 Barton | WI19 Barton | WI18 Landry/Barton |
| SIO 135 | Satellite Remote Sensing | SP19 Sandwell | SP18 Sandwell | |
| 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 | WI19 Palenik | WI18 Palenik |
| SIO 141 | Chemical Principles of Marine Systems | |||
| SIO 143 | Ocean Acidification | WI20 Andersson | SP19 Andersson | |
| SIO 144 | Introduction to Isotope Geochemistry | WI20 Castillo/Severinghaus | WI18 Castillo/Chin | |
| SIO 147 | Applications of Phylogenetics | WI18 Rouse | ||
| SIO 152 | Petrology and Petrography | SP18 Day | ||
| SIO 155 | Whole Earth Geochemistry | |||
| SIO 160 | Introduction to Tectonics | SP18 Fialko | ||
| SIO 162 | Structural Geology | |||
| SIO 164 | Introduction to Marine Archeology | WI19 Rivera | ||
| SIO 167 | Introduction to Geoarcheology | WI19 Rivera | ||
| SIO 170 | Introduction to Volcanology | |||
| SIO 170L | Introduction to Volcanology Field Experience | |||
| SIO 171 | Introduction to Physical Oceanography | FA18 Rudnick | ||
| SIO 172 | Introduction to Atmospheric Science | WI20 Evan | WI19 Evan | WI18 Evan |
| SIO 173 |
SIO 173: Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Climate |
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| SIO 174 |
Chemistry of the Ocean and Atmosphere |
SP19 Severinghaus | ||
| SIO 176 |
Observational Physical Oceanography |
SP19 Straneo | ||
| SIO 177 | Fluid Mechanics | FA19 Becker | FA18 Becker | |
| SIO 178 | Geophyiscal Fluid Dynamics | WI20 Becker | WI19 Becker | WI18 Becker |
| Marine Instramental Methods | WI19 Martz | |||
| SIO 180 | Communicating Science to Informal Audiences | WI19 Brandon | ||
| SIO 181 | Marine Biochemistry | SP19 Tresguerres | SP18 Treguerres | |
| SIO 182 | Environmental and Exploration Geophysics | SP19 Constable | ||
| SIO 183 | Phycology: Marine Plant Biology | WI18 Smith | ||
| SIO 184 | Marine Invertebrates | |||
| SIO 187 | Statistical Methods in Marine Biology | WI20 Kacev | WI18 Sandin | |
| SIO 188 | Biology of Fishes | WI20 Hastings | WI19 Hastings | WI18 Hasting |
| SIO 189 | Pollution, Environment and Health | FA19 Hamdoun | ||
| SIO 190 | Special Topics in Earth Sciences | |||
| SIO 192 | Senior Seminar in Scripps Institution of Oceanography | |||
| SIO 209 | Machine Learnig for Physical Applications | SP19 Gerstoft | ||
| SIOC 200A | Computational Ocean Acoustics and Signal Processing I | |||
| SIOC 200B | Computational Ocean Acoustics and Signal Processing II | |||
| SIOC 200C | Computational Ocean Acoustics and Signal Processing III | |||
| SIOC 201 | Geological Record of Climate Change | |||
| SIOC 202A | Fundamentals of Wave Physics | WI19 Stramski | WI18 Kuperman/ Feddersen | |
| SIOC 202B | Fundamentals of Wave Physics | SP18 Stramski/J. Hildebrand | ||
| SIOC 203A | Introduction to Applied Mathematics I | |||
| SIOC 203B | Introduction to Applied Mathematics II | WI20 Llewellyn Smith | WI19 Smith | |
| SIOC 203C | Introduction to Applied Mathematics III | SP19 Young | ||
| SIOC 204 | Acoustics | SP18 Buckingham | ||
| SIOC 206 | Land Surface Hydrology | |||
| SIOC 207A | Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing | |||
| 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 | FA17 Giddings / FA17 Severinghaus-Straneo | FA17 Giddings | |
| SIOC 209 | Special Topics: Winter Quarter | WI18 Thompson | ||
| SIOC 209 | Special Topics: Spring Quarter | SP18 Xie | ||
| SIOC 210 | Physical Oceanography | FA17 Purkey/Mackinnon | ||
| SIOC 211A | Ocean Waves I | WI20 Feddersen | WI19 Feddersen | WI18 Feddersen |
| SIOC 211B | Ocean Waves II | |||
| SIOC 212A | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics I | WI20 Eisenman | WI19 Eisenman | |
| SIOC 212B | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics II | SP19 Cessi | SP18 Cessi | |
| SIOC 213 | Turbulence and Mixing | |||
| SIOC 214A | Introduction to Fluid Mechanics | FA17 Giddings | ||
| SIOC 214B | Environmental Fluid Dynamics | |||
| SIOC 215A | Applied Mathematics for Oceanographers I | |||
| SIOC 215B | Applied Mathematics for Oceanographers II | |||
| SIOB 215C | Applied Mathematics for Oceanographers III | |||
| SIOC 216 | Introduction to the Physics of Complex Systems | WI18 Werner | ||
| SIOC 217A | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences I | FA17 Russell | ||
| SIOC 217B | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences II | WI20 Xie | WI19 Xie | WI18 Eisenman |
| SIOC 217C | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences III | |||
| SIOC 217D | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences IV | |||
| SIOC 218 | Cloud Dynamics and Climate | |||
| SIOC 218A | Observational Methods | |||
| SIOC 218B | Practical Methods at Sea | |||
| SIOC 219 | Special Topics in Physical Oceanography: Fall Quarter | FA18 Lucas | ||
| SIOC 219 | Special Topics in Physical Oceanography: Winter Quarter | WI18 Alford/Send | ||
| SIOC 219 | Special Topics in Physical Oceanography: Spring Quarter | |||
| SIOC 219 | Observational Oceanography Seminar | SP18 Feddersen | ||
| SIOC 219 | Theoretical Oceanography Seminar | |||
| SIOC 220 | Observations of Large-Scale Ocean Circulation | SP19 Purkey | ||
| SIOC 221A | Analysis of Physical Oceanographic Data (A) | FA 19 Gille | FA18 Gille | FA17 Gille |
| SIOC 221B | Analysis of Physical Oceanographic Data (B) | WI20 Merrifield/Rudnick | WI19 Rudnick | |
| SIOC 221C | Data Analysis Laboratory | FA19 Alford | FA18 Alford | FA17 Alford |
| SIOC 222 | Underwater Bioacoustics | |||
| SIOC 223 | Proposal Writing | WI20 Alford/Send | ||
| SIOC 225 | Ice Sheet-Ocean Interactions | WI20 Straneo | ||
| SIOC 235 | Ocean Atmosphere Interaction | SP19 Xie | ||
| SIOC 237A | Introduction to Ocean Optics | |||
| SIOC 237B | Ocean Color Remote Sensing | |||
| SIOC 237C | Optical-Biological Interactions in the Ocean | SP18 Stramski | ||
| SIOC 238 | Sensor Networks | |||
| SIOC 241 | Advanced Signal Processing | WI20 Kuperman | ||
| SIOC 250 | Advanced Atmospheric Dynamics | FA18 Norris, J. | ||
| SIOC 251 | Radiation in the Atmosphere | |||
| SIOC 254 | Science of Climate Change | |||
| SIOC 261 | Nearshore Physical Oceanography | |||
| SIOC 267 | Biogeochemistry | |||
| SIOC 290S | Climate Math | S317 Chen | ||
| SIOC 291S | @Climate | S317 | ||
| SIOC 292 | Introduction to Climate Science & Policy | |||
| SIOC 293 | Ocean and Atmosphere Processes and Climate | WI20 Eddebbar | ||
| SIOC 296 | Special Topics: Climate Science & Policy Forum | WI19 Jensen | ||
| SIOG 222 |
Introduction to Industry Seismic Reflection Methods and Applications |
WI19 Srnka | ||
| SIOG 223A | Geophysical Data Analysis I | |||
| SIOG 223B | Geophysical Data Analysis II | SP18 Agnew | ||
| SIOG 224 | Internal Constitution of the Earth | WI20 Stegman | ||
| SIOG 225 | Physics of Earth Materials | FA17 Agnew | ||
| SIOG 226 | Introduction to Marine Geophysics | |||
| SIOG 227A | Introduction to Seismology | FA19 Shearer | WI19 Shearer | WI18 Shearer |
| SIOG 227B | Advanced Seismology I | |||
| SIOG 227C | Advanced Seismology II | |||
| SIOG 228 | Research Seminar | WI20 Kacev | WI19 Teranes | WI18 Castillo / SP18 Castillo |
| SIOG 229 | Gravity and Geomagnetism | WI20 Borsa/C. Constable | WI19 Borsa/C. Constable | WI18 Borsa/C. Constable |
| SIOG 230 | Introduction to Inverse Theory | |||
| SIOG 231 | Introduction to EM Methods in Geophysics | |||
| SIOG 232 | Ethical and Professional Science | |||
| SIOG 233 | Introduction to Computing at SIO | FA18 Shearer | FA17 Shearer | |
| SIOG 234 | Geodynamics | FA18 Sandwell | ||
| SIOG 236 | Satellite Remote Sensing | SP19 Sandwell | SP18 Sandwell | |
| SIOG 237 | Space Geodesy Seminar | WI20 Xu/Sandwell/Bock | WI19 Fialko | |
| SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics: Fall Quarter | |||
| SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics: Winter Quarter | |||
| SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics: Spring Quarter | |||
| SIOG 240 | Marine Geology | FA17 Charles/Gee | ||
| SIOG 242 | Geochronologic Methods and Applications | WI20 Willenbring | SP19 Willenbring | |
| SIOG 244 | Shape and Structure of the Ocean Floor | |||
| SIOG 245 | Marine Sediments-Paleo Proxies | SP18 Kastner | ||
| SIOG 246 | Global Tectonics and Basin Formation | |||
| SIOG 247 | Rock Magnetism and Paleomagnetism | SP18 Tauxe/Gee | ||
| SIOG 249 | Special Topics in Marine Geology | FA17 Sclater | ||
| SIOG 251 | Whole Earth Geochemistry | |||
| SIOG 252A | Introduction to Isotope Geochemistry | WI20 Castillo/Severinghaus | WI18 Castillo/Chin | |
| SIOG 252B | Advanced Isotope Geochemistry I | |||
| SIOG 252C | Advanced Isotope Geochemistry II | |||
| SIOG 253 | Interactions of Oceanic Plates and the California Margin | FA19 Lonsdale/Castillo | FA17 Lonsdale | |
| SIOG 255 | Paleobiology and History of Life | |||
| SIOG 255A | Topics in Paleobiology and History of Life | |||
| SIOG 257 | Seminar in Petrology | |||
| SIOG 260 | Marine Chemistry | WI20 Barbeau/Diaz | WI18 Barbeau/Martz | |
| SIOG 261 | Introduction to Rheology of Solid Earth | WI20 Pommier | SP18 Pommier | |
| SIOG 263 | Aqueous Chemistry | |||
| SIOG 268 | Seminar in Geochemistry and Marine Chemistry | WI20 Aluwihare | ||
| SIOG 269 | Special Topics in Marine Chemistry: Fall Quarter | |||
| SIOG 269 | Special Topics in Marine Chemistry: Winter Quarter | WI20 Martz | ||
| SIOG 269 | Special Topics in Marine Chemistry: Spring Quarter | |||
| SIOG 270 | The Archeology of Climate Change | WI20 Rivera-Collazo | ||
| SIOG 275 | Paleoethnobotany | FA18 d'Alpoim Guedes | ||
| SIOB 242A | Marine Biotechnology I: Tools and Methods | FA17 Fenical/L.Gerwick | ||
| SIOB 242B | Marine Biotechnology II: Applications | WI20 Jensen/Moore | WI18 Jensen/Fenical | |
| SIOB 242C | Marine Biotechnology III: Intro to Bioinformatics | |||
| SIOB 243 | Marine Paleoecology | |||
| SIOB 248 | Evolution of Earth's Biosphere | |||
| SIOB 262 | Marine Chemical Biology Seminar | WI20 Moore / FA19 Jensen | WI19 Moore | WI18 W.Gerwick / SP18 Jensen |
| SIOB 264 | Biosynthesis of Marine Natural Products | |||
| SIOB 270 | Pelagic Ecology | WI20 Ohman/Allen | ||
| SIOB 270A | Fisheries Oceanography | |||
| SIOB 271 | Marine Zooplankton | |||
| SIOB 272 | Advanced Statistical Techniques | WI20 Sandin | WI19 Sandin | |
| SIOB 273 | Professional Ethics in Science | |||
| SIOB 274 | Natural History Below the Tides | |||
| SIOB 275A | Benthic Ecology | WI20 Leichter | ||
| SIOB 275B | Natural History of Coastal Habitats | |||
| SIOB 276 | Quantitative Theory of Populations and Communities | FA17 Sugihara | ||
| SIOB 276L | Quantitative Ecology Project Lab | SP19 Sugihara | ||
| SIOB 277 | Deep-Sea Biology | FA19 Levin/Choy | FA17 Levin | |
| SIO 278 |
Survey Design and Analysis |
WI19 Brazier | ||
| SIO 278 | Thesis Proposal Writing | SP19 Franks | ||
| SIOB 278 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: Fall Quarter | |||
| SIOB 278 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: Winter Quarter | WI18 Azam | ||
| SIOB 278 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: Spring Quarter | |||
| SIOB 280 | Biological Oceanography | |||
| SIOB 281 | Environmental Physiology and Biochemistry of Marine Organisms | SP18 Tresguerres | ||
| SIOB 282 | Phytoplankton Diversity | |||
| SIOB 283 | Phycology: Marine Plant Biology | |||
| SIOB 284 | Marine Invertebrates | |||
| SIOB 285 | Physical-Biological Interactions | SP19 Franks | ||
| SIOB 286 | Marine Science, Economics and Policy | WI20 Mesnick | WI19 Sandin | WI18 Sandin |
| SIOB 287A | Marine Microbial Ecology | |||
| SIOB 287B | Microbial Physiology | |||
| SIOB 288 | Marine Microbial Laboratory | |||
| SIOB 289 | Pollution, Environment, and Health | |||
| SIOB 290 | Marine Biology | |||
| SIOB 291 | Biology Graduate Research Presentations | WI20 E. Allen | ||
| SIOB 292 | Communicating Science to Informal Audiences | |||
| SIOB 293 | Applications of Phylogenetics | |||
| SIOB 294 | Biology of Fishes | WI20 Hastings | WI19 Hastings | WI18 Hastings |
| SIOB 295 | Behavior and Ecology of Fishes | |||
| SIOB 296 | Special Topics in Marine Biology: Fall Quarter | WI19 Archer | ||
| SIOB 296 | Special Topics in Marine Biology: Winter Quarter | WI20 Archer | WI18 Archer | |
| SIOB 296 | Special Topics in Marine Biology: Spring Quarter | |||
| SIO 295S | Introduction to Marine Biodiversity and Conservation—Seminar | |||
| SIO 295LS | Introduction to Marine Biodiversity and Conservation—Lab |