Courses in the SIO Department
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This page displays the current 2023-24 plan for classes in the SIO Department, including those in the Climates Change Studies (CCS), Environmental Systems (ESYS), Marine Biodiversity & Conservation (MBC), and Climate Science & Policy (CSP) programs. Please be aware that all listings are tentative, and class offerings and instructors are subject to change. Please refer to the Schedule of Classes for times and locations, when available. For course descriptions, either click on the course number or see the UC San Diego General Catalog.
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Scripps Oceanography Courses 2023/24
Course | Course Title | Fall Quarter | Winter Quarter | Spring Quarter | Summer |
ESYS 101 | Environmental Biology | Taylor, J; Diaz, J | |||
MBC 258 | Marine Consrv/Comm Practicum 1 | Murray, S | |||
SIO 1 | The Planets | Stegman, D | |||
SIO 3 | Life in the Oceans | Aburto Oropeza, M | |||
SIO 10 | The Earth | Borsa, A | |||
SIO 12 | History of Earth & Evolution | Peach, C | |||
SIO 15 | Natural Disasters | Laske, M | |||
SIO 16 | Geology of the National Parks | Gee, J | |||
SIO 30 | The Oceans | Gille, S; Aarons, S | |||
SIO 35 | Water | Driscoll, N | |||
SIO 40 | Life and Climate on Earth | Barbeau, K | |||
SIO 45 | Volcanoes | Cook, G | |||
SIO 50 | Intro to Physical Geology | Cook, G | Cook, G | ||
SIO 60 | Exp/Oceanic & Atmospheric Sci | Ricke, K; Lucas, A | |||
SIO 65 | Geosciences Seminar | Cook, G | |||
SIO 75 | Geological History of Earth | Norris, R; Van Allen, E | |||
SIO 87 | First-year Seminar - Weather in San Diego | Norris, J | |||
SIO 87 | First-year Seminar | Aburto Oropeza, M | |||
SIO 100 | Geological Field Methods | Norris, R; Gee, J | |||
SIO 102 | Introduction to Geochemistry | Day, J | |||
SIO 103 | Introduction to Geophysics | Parnell-Turner, R | |||
SIO 105 | Sedimentology & Stratigraphy | Driscoll, N | |||
SIO 107 | Water Pollution | Schartup, A | |||
SIO 108 | Paleoclimatology | Charles, C; Aarons, S | |||
SIO 110 | Intro GIS & GPS for Scientists | Batchelor, H | |||
SIO 111 | Introduction to Ocean Waves | Feddersen, F | |||
SIO 113 | Comp & Data Analysis in Geosci | May, D | |||
SIO 115 | Ice and the Climate System | Fricker, H | |||
SIO 116 | Climate Change & Global Health | Benmarhnia, T | |||
SIO 117 | Physical Basis/Global Warming | Keeling, R | |||
SIO 119 | Physics and Chem of the Oceans | Send, U | |||
SIO 120 | Mineralogy | Cook, G | |||
SIO 121 | Biology of the Cryosphere | Bowman, J | |||
SIO 122 | Ecological Developmental Bio | Lyons, D | |||
SIO 123 | Microbial Env Systems Biology | Allen, A | |||
SIO 126 | Marine Microbiology | Palenik, B | |||
SIO 128 | Microbial Life in Extreme Env. | Bartlett, D | |||
SIO 132 | Introduction to Marine Biology | Hechinger, R; Kacev, D | |||
SIO 133 | Marine Mammal Biology | Baumann-Pickering, S; Kacev, D | |||
SIO 134 | Intro/Biological Oceanography | Barton, A | |||
SIO 135 | Satellite Remote Sensing | Fricker, H | |||
SIO 136 | Marine Biology Laboratory | Kacev, D | |||
SIO 137 | Ecosystems & Fisheries | Choy, A; Petrik, C | |||
SIO 138 | The Coral Reef Environment | Smith, J; Leichter, J; Charles, C | |||
SIO 139 | Current Research in Marine Bio | Kacev, D | |||
SIO 143 | Ocean Acidification | Andersson, J | |||
SIO 146 | Cell and Dev. Bio. Lab | Lyons, D | |||
SIO 152 | Petrology and Petrography | Van Allen, E | |||
SIO 153 | Geomorphology | Rivera-Collazo, I | |||
SIO 161 | Seismology | Shearer, P | |||
SIO 162 | Structural Geology | Wright, V | |||
SIO 170 | Volcanology | Cook, G | |||
SIO 171 | Intro to Physical Oceanography | Rudnick, D | |||
SIO 172 | Physics of the Atmosphere | Norris, J | |||
SIO 173 | Dynamics of Atmos & Climate | Lutsko, N | |||
SIO 175 | Analysis Ocean/Atmosph Data | Merrifield, M | |||
SIO 176 | Observ Physical Oceanography | Straneo, F | |||
SIO 177 | Fluid Dynamics | Becker, J | |||
SIO 178 | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics | Becker, J | |||
SIO 179 | Ocean Instruments and Sensors | Martz, T | |||
SIO 181 | Marine Biochemistry | Tresguerres, M | |||
SIO 184 | Marine Invertebrates | Rouse, G | |||
SIO 187 | Stat Methods in Marine Biology | Kacev, D | |||
SIO 188 | Biology of Fishes | Arcila, D | |||
SIOB 218 | Ocean & Coastal Law and Policy | Murray, S | |||
SIOB 242A | Marine Biotechnology I | Hamdoun, A | |||
SIOB 262 | Marine Chemical Biology Seminr | Jensen, P | |||
SIOB 272 | Advanced Statistical Technique | Sandin, S | |||
SIOB 273 | Professional Ethics in Science | Leichter, J | |||
SIOB 274 | Natural History Below the Tide | Leichter, J | |||
SIOB 276 | Quant Theory/Population&Commun | Sugihara, G | |||
SIOB 276L | Quantitative Ecology Proj Lab | Sugihara, G | |||
SIOB 278 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences | Bowman, J; Baumann-Pickering, S | |||
SIOB 280 | Biological Oceanography | Baumann-Pickering, S; Allen, A | |||
SIOB 296 | Special Topics/Ocean Bio | Semmens, B; Brazier, E | Batchelor, H | ||
SIOB 298 | Spec Studies/Marine Sciences | Rouse, G | |||
SIOC 202B | Fundamentals of Wave Physics | Stramski, D; Gabriel, A | |||
SIOC 203A | Intro to Applied Mathematics | Llewellyn Smith, S | |||
SIOC 203B | Intro/Applied Mathematics II | Llewellyn Smith, S | |||
SIOC 210 | Physical Oceanography | Purkey, S | |||
SIOC 212A | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics I | Eisenman, I | |||
SIOC 212B | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics II | Cessi, P | |||
SIOC 214A | Intro To Fluid Mechanics | Giddings, S | |||
SIOC 217A | Atmospheric & Climate Sci I | Evan, A | |||
SIOC 217B | Atmospheric & Climate Sci II | Norris, J | |||
SIOC 217C | Atmospheric & Climate Sci III | Lutsko, N | |||
SIOC 217D | Atmospheric & Climate Sci IV | Keeling, R | |||
SIOC 218B | Obs Techniques Sea Practicum | Alford, M; Send, U | |||
SIOC 220 | Observatns/Lg Scale Ocean Cir | Rudnick, D | |||
SIOC 221A | Anlys/Physicl Oceanograph Data | Alford, M | |||
SIOC 221B | Analysis/Physical Ocean Data | Gille, S | |||
SIOC 223 | Proposal Writing / Exp Design | Alford, M; Send, U | |||
SIOC 224 | NumericalModel/ClimateSys | Eisenman, I | |||
SIOC 237C | Optical-Bio Interactions/Ocean | Stramski, D | |||
SIOG 200B | Geophysics Research Skills II | Parnell-Turner, R | |||
SIOG 200C | Geophysics Research Skills III | Parnell-Turner, R | |||
SIOG 223A | Geophysical Data Analysis I | Morzfeld, M | |||
SIOG 223B | Geophysical Data Analysis II | Agnew, D | |||
SIOG 225 | Physics of Earth Materials | Fialko, Y | |||
SIOG 228 | Research Seminar | Allen, E | Allen, E | Allen, E | |
SIOG 229 | Gravity and Geodesy | Borsa, A | |||
SIOG 233 | Intro to Computing at SIO | Shearer, P | |||
SIOG 234 | Geodynamics | Sandwell, D | |||
SIOG 235 | Computational Inverse Problems | Morzfeld, M | |||
SIOG 237 | Space Geodesy | Fialko, Y | |||
SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics - Seismology Seminar | Fan, W | |||
SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics - Seismology | Shearer, P | |||
SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics - SEISMOLOGY | Gabriel, A | |||
SIOG 240 | Marine Geology | Gee, J; Charles, C | |||
SIOG 269 | Spec Topics/Marine Chemistry | Diaz, J | Martz, T |