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 | 2023-24 | 2021-22 | 2020-21 |
| SIO 1 | The Planets | |||
| SIO 3 | Life in the Oceans | W24 Aburto | ||
| SIO 10 | The Earth | SP24 Borsa | SP22 Borsa | |
| SIO 12 | History of the Earth and Evolution | FA23 Peach | FA21 Peach | |
| SIO 15 | Natural Disasters | FA23 Laske | WI22 Laske | FA20 Laske |
| SIO 16 | Geology of the National Parks | SP24 Gee | SP22 Gee | SP21 Gee |
| SIO 20 | The Atmosphere | W24 Russell | WI22 J. Norris | WI21 Wall |
| SIO 25 | Climate Change and Society | WI22 Teranes | WI21 Teranes | |
| SIO 30 | The Oceans | FA23 Aarons/Gille | FA21 MacKinnon & Castillo | FA20 Castillo & MacKinnon |
| SIO 35 | Water | |||
| SIO 40 | Life and Climate on Earth | FA23 Barbeau | FA21 Barbeau | FA20 Barbeau |
| SIO 45 | Volcanoes | W24 Cook | WI22 Cook | WI21 Cook |
| SIO 50 | Introduction to Earth and Environmental Sciences | FA21 Cook / SP22 Cook | FA20 Cook / SP21 Cook | |
| SIO 60 | Experiences in Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences | FA21 Ricke & Lucas | ||
| SIO 65 | Geosciences Seminar | WI22 Teranes | ||
| SIO 73 | Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Climate | SP24 Lutsko | ||
| SIO 75 | Geological History of Earth | SP24 Norris | SP22 Chin & R. Norris | |
| SIO 87 | First-year Seminars | FA21 Gerwick / FA21 Cook / SP22 Moore | FA20 Gilbert / WI21 Cook / SP21 Lutsko | |
| SIO 90 | Undergraduate Seminar | FA20 Bowman | ||
| SIO 100 | Introduction to Field Methods | FA23 Norris | FA21 Norris & Gee | WI21 R. Norris & Chin |
| SIO 101 | California Coastal Oceanography | |||
| SIO 102 | Introduction to Geochemistry | WI22 Day | ||
| SIO 103 | Introduction to Geophysics | FA23 ParnellTurner | FA21 Parnell-Turner | FA20 Parnell-Turner |
| SIO 104 | Paleobiology and History of Life | |||
| SIO 105 | Sedimentology and Stratigraphy | FA23 Driscoll | FA21 Driscoll | |
| SIO 106 | Introduction to Hydrogeology | |||
| SIO 108 | Introduction to Paleoclimatology | FA21 Teranes | ||
| SIO 109 | Bending Curve: Climate Change | |||
| SIO 110 | Introduction to GIS and GPS for Scientists | FA21 Batchelor | ||
| SIO 111 | Introduction to Ocean Waves | W24 Feddersen | WI22 Feddersen | SP21 Feddersen |
| SIO 113 | Introduction to Computational Earth Science | SP24 May | SP21 May | |
| SIO 115 | Ice and the Climate System | W24 Fricker | ||
| SIO 116 | Climate Change & Global Health | WI22 Benmarhnia | ||
| SIO 117 | The Physical Basis of Global Warming | FA23 Keeling | FA21 Keeling | |
| SIO 119 | Physics and Chemistry of the Oceans | WI21 Andersson & Send | ||
| SIO 120 | Introduction to Mineralogy | W24 Cook | WI22 Cook | WI21 Cook |
| SIO 121 | Biology of the Cryosphere | |||
| SIO 122 | Ecological Development Biology | |||
| SIO 123 | Microbial Environmental Systems Biology | |||
| SIO 124 | Marine Natural Products | FA23 Jensen | WI22 Jensen | |
| SIO 125 | Biomechanics of Marine Life | SP22 Taylor | SP21 Taylor | |
| SIO 126 | Marine Microbiology | W24 Palenik | WI22 Palenik | WI21 Palenik |
| SIO 127 | Marine Molecular Ecology | SP22 Burton | ||
| SIO 128 | Microbial Life in Extreme Environments | SP24 Bartlett | ||
| SIO 131 | Parasitology | SP22 Hechinger | ||
| SIO 132 | Introduction to Marine Biology | FA20 Hechinger & Kacev | ||
| SIO 133 | Marine Mammal Biology | |||
| SIO 134 | Introduction to Biological Oceanography | WI21 Barton | ||
| SIO 135 | Satellite Remote Sensing | SP24 Fricker | SP21 Fricker & Sandwell | |
| SIO 136 | Marine Biology Laboratory | |||
| SIO 137 | Ecosystems and Fisheries | FA23 Petrik | ||
| SIO 138 | The Coral Reef Environment | |||
| SIO 139 | Current Research in Marine Biology | W24 Palenik | ||
| SIO 141 | Chemical Principles of Marine Systems | |||
| SIO 143 | Ocean Acidification | SP24 Andersson | SP22 Andersson | SP21 Andersson |
| SIO 144 | Introduction to Isotope Geochemistry | W24 Day | WI22 Day & Severinghaus | |
| SIO 147 | Applications of Phylogenetics | FA23 Rouse | WI21 Rouse | |
| SIO 152 | Petrology and Petrography | SP24 Chin | SP21 Chin | |
| SIO 153 | Geomorphology | SP24 Capaldi | ||
| SIO 155 | Whole Earth Geochemistry | |||
| SIO 160 | Introduction to Tectonics | SP21 Fialko | ||
| SIO 161 | Seismology | W24 Fan | WI22 Fan | |
| SIO 162 | Structural Geology | W24 Wright | SP21 Brown | |
| SIO 164 | Introduction to Marine Archeology | |||
| SIO 166 | Introduction to Environmental Archaeology | |||
| SIO 167 | Introduction to Geoarcheology | |||
| SIO 170 | Introduction to Volcanology | FA23 Cook | FA21 Cook | FA20 Cook |
| SIO 171 | Introduction to Physical Oceanography | FA21 Rudnick | FA20 Rudnick | |
| SIO 172 | Introduction to Atmospheric Science | W24 Norris | WI22 Evan | WI21 Evan |
| SIO 173 | Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Climate | SP22 Xie & Lutsko | SP21 Eisenman & Xie | |
| SIO 174 | Chemistry of the Ocean and Atmosphere | SP24 Aluwihare | SP22 Severinghaus & Russell | SP21 Russell & Severinghaus |
| SIO 175 | Analysis of Oceanic and Atmospheric Data | FA23 Merrifield | FA21 Merrifield | |
| SIO 176 | Observational Physical Oceanography | |||
| SIO 177 | Fluid Mechanics | FA23 Becker | FA21 Becker | FA20 Becker |
| SIO 178 | Geophyiscal Fluid Dynamics | W24 Becker | WI21 Becker | WI21 Becker |
| SIO 179 | Ocean Instruments and Sensors | FA23 Martz | SP22 Martz | |
| SIO 180 | Communicating Science to Informal Audiences | WI21 Paulenich | ||
| SIO 181 | Marine Biochemistry | SP24 Treguerres | SP22 Tresguerres & Harter | SP21 Tresguerres |
| SIO 182 | Environmental and Exploration Geophysics | W24 Constable | ||
| SIO 183 | Phycology: Marine Plant Biology | W24 Smith | WI22 Smith | |
| SIO 184 | Marine Invertebrates | W24 Rouse | WI22 Rouse | |
| SIO 186 | Microbiomes Across Environments | FA23 Gilbert/Knight/Allard | ||
| SIO 187 | Statistical Methods in Marine Biology | |||
| SIO 188 | Biology of Fishes | SP21 Hastings | ||
| SIO 189 | Pollution, Environment and Health | |||
| SIO 190 | Special Topics in Earth Sciences | WI21 Becker | ||
| SIO 192 | Senior Seminar on Oceans and Human Health | SP24 Gerwick | ||
| SIO 299 | Graduate Thesis Research and Professional Development | W24 Multiple | ||
| SIOC 200A | Computational Ocean Acoustics and Signal Processing I | FA23 Lin | ||
| SIOC 200B | Ocean Acoustics and Signal Processing II | W24 Lin | ||
| SIOC 201 | Geological Record of Climate Change | |||
| SIOC 202A | Fundamentals of Wave Physics | W24 Hao&Lin | ||
| SIOC 202B | Fundamentals of Wave Physics | SP24 Stramski | SP21 Hildebrand & Stramski | SP21 Stramski & Hildebrand |
| SIOC 203A | Introduction to Applied Mathematics I | FA23 Becker | FA21 Llewellyn Smith | |
| SIOC 203B | Introduction to Applied Mathematics II | W24 Smith | WI22 Llewellyn Smith | WI21 Llewellyn Smith |
| SIOC 203C | Introduction to Applied Mathematics III | |||
| SIOC 204 | Acoustics | |||
| SIOC 205 | Estuarine and Coastal Processes | SP24 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 | SP24 Merrifield | ||
| 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 | ||
| SIOC 211B | Ocean Waves II | |||
| SIOC 212A | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics I | W24 Eisenman | WI22 Eisenman | WI21 Eisenman |
| SIOC 212B | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics II | SP24 Cessi | SP22 Cessi | SP21 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 | |
| SIOC 217B | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences II | W24 Norris | WI22 Norris | WI21 Xie |
| SIOC 217C | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences III | SP24 Lutsko | SP22 Lutsko | SP21 Lutsko |
| SIOC 217D | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences IV | W24 Russell&Keeling | WI22 Russell / Keeling | |
| SIOC 218A | Observational Methods | SP24 Send | ||
| 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 | ||
| SIOC 221A | Analysis of Physical Oceanographic Data (A) | FA21 Gille | FA20 Gille | |
| SIOC 221B | Analysis of Physical Oceanographic Data (B) | W24 Gille | WI22 Rudnick | |
| SIOC 221C | Data Analysis Laboratory | FA21 Alford | FA20 Alford | |
| SIOC 223 | Proposal Writing | |||
| SIOC 224 | Numerical Modeling of the Climate System | SP24 Eisenman | SP22 Eisenman | |
| SIOC 225 | Ice Sheet-Ocean Interactions | |||
| SIOC 235 | Ocean Atmosphere Interaction | SP24 Xie | SP22 Xie | |
| SIOC 237A | Introduction to Ocean Optics | W24 Stramski | SP21 Stramski | |
| SIOC 237B | Ocean Color Remote Sensing | SP22 Stramski | ||
| SIOC 241 | Advanced Signal Processing | |||
| SIOC 251 | Radiation in the Atmosphere | SP24 Evan | SP21 Evan | |
| SIOC 261 | Nearshore Physical Oceanography | |||
| SIOC 267 | Biogeochemistry | SP22 Keeling & Severinghaus | SP21 Severinghaus | |
| SIOC 293 | Ocean and Atmosphere Processes and Climate | |||
| SIOC 296 | Special Topics: Climate Science & Policy Forum | |||
| SIOG 200C | Geophysics Research Skills III | FA23 ParnellTurner | ||
| SIOG 221 | Plate Tectonics in Practice | SP24 Parnell-Turner | SP22 Parnell-Turner | |
| SIOG 222 | Introduction to Industry Seismic Reflection Methods and Applications | |||
| SIOG 223A | Geophysical Data Analysis I | FA23 Morzfeld | FA21 Morzfeld | FA20 Morzfeld |
| SIOG 223B | Geophysical Data Analysis II | WI22 Agnew | SP21 Agnew | |
| SIOG 224 | Internal Constitution of the Earth | WI21 Laske & Stegman | ||
| SIOG 225 | Physics of Earth Materials | FA23 Fialko | FA21 Fialko | FA20 Fialko |
| SIOG 227A | Introduction to Seismology | WI22 Shearer | ||
| SIOG 227B | Advanced Seismology I | SP22 Shearer | ||
| SIOG 228 | Research Seminar | FA21 E Allen | FA20 E. Allen / WI21 Barbeau | |
| SIOG 229 | Fundamentals of Gravity and Geodesy | WI21 Borsa & C. Constable | ||
| SIOG 230 | Introduction to Inverse Theory | SP21 C. Constable | ||
| SIOG 231 | Geomagnetism and Electromagnetism | W24 Constable | ||
| SIOG 232 | Ethical and Professional Science | SP24 Constable | SP21 S. Constable & C. Constable | |
| SIOG 233 | Introduction to Computing at SIO | FA23 Shearer | WI22 Shearer | |
| SIOG 234 | Geodynamics | SP24 Sandwell | FA20 Sandwell | |
| SIOG 235 | Computational Inverse Problems | W24 Morzfeld | ||
| SIOG 236 | Satellite Remote Sensing | SP21 Fricker & Sandwell | ||
| SIOG 237 | Space Geodesy Seminar | WI21 Fialko | ||
| SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics: Fall Quarter | SP24 May | ||
| SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics: Winter Quarter | W24 Shearer | 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 | |||
| SIOG 249 | Special Topics in Marine Geology | |||
| SIOG 251 | Whole Earth Geochemistry | |||
| SIOG 252A | Introduction to Isotope Geochemistry | WI22 Day & Severinghaus | ||
| SIOG 253 | Interactions of Oceanic Plates and the California Margin | |||
| SIOG 255 | Paleobiology and History of Life | |||
| SIOG 260 | Marine Chemistry | WI20 Dickson & Barbeau | ||
| SIOG 261 | Introduction to Rheology of Solid Earth | |||
| SIOG 263 | Aqueous Chemistry | |||
| SIOG 268 | Seminar in Geochemistry and Marine Chemistry | WI21 Diaz | ||
| SIOG 269 | Special Topics in Marine Chemistry: Fall Quarter | FA21 Diaz | ||
| SIOG 269 | Special Topics in Marine Chemistry: Winter Quarter | WI22 Aarons | ||
| SIOG 269 | Special Topics in Marine Chemistry: Spring Quarter | SP22 Choy & Aarons | ||
| SIOG 270 | The Archeology of Climate Change | |||
| 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 | W24 Jenson&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 | |
| SIOB 264 | Biosynthesis of Marine Natural Products | SP22 Moore | ||
| SIOB 265 | Marine Chemical Ecology | WI21 Jensen | ||
| SIOB 270 | Pelagic Ecology | SP22 Petrik & A Allen | ||
| SIOB 271 | Marine Zooplankton | |||
| SIOB 272 | Advanced Statistical Techniques | W24 Sandin | WI22 Sandin | WI21 Sandin |
| SIOB 273 | Professional Ethics in Science | |||
| SIOB 274 | Natural History Below the Tides | |||
| SIOB 275A | Benthic Ecology | |||
| SIOB 276 | Quantitative Theory of Populations and Communities | FA20 Sugihara | ||
| SIOB 276L | Quantitative Ecology Project Lab | |||
| SIOB 277 | Deep-Sea Biology | WI22 Choy & Levin | ||
| SIOB 278 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: Fall Quarter | FA23 Decima | ||
| SIOB 278 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: Winter Quarter | WI22 Burton | WI21 Burton | |
| SIOB 278 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: Spring Quarter | SP24 Arcila | SP21 Jensen | |
| SIOB 280 | Biological Oceanography | FA21 Levin & Allen | ||
| SIOB 281 | Environmental Physiology and Biochemistry of Marine Organisms | |||
| 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 | ||
| SIOB 289 | Pollution, Environment, and Health | |||
| SIOB 291 | Biology Graduate Research Presentations | SP24 Hechinger | WI22 E Allen / SP22 Sandin | WI21 Gilbert |
| SIOB 292 | Communicating Science to Informal Audiences | |||
| SIOB 294 | Biology of Fishes | SP21 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 | |
| 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 | FA23 Allen/Taylor | 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 101 | Carbon Neutrality Initiative at University of California | FA23 Polonik | ||
| CCS 102 | Research Perspectives on Climate Change | FA21 Puritty | ||
| CCS 123 | Policy/Politics Climate Change | W24 Corey |