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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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Courses at Scripps Oceanography
Course | Course Title | Fall Quarter | Winter Quarter | Spring Quarter | Summer |
CCS 102 | Research Persp/Climate Change | Werner, B | |||
CCS 123 | PolicyPolitics Climate Change | Gabriel, C | |||
ESYS 101 | Environmental Biology | Taylor, J; Diaz, J | |||
ESYS 102 | The Solid and Fluid Earth | Haase, J | |||
ESYS 103 | Envrnmntl Chall: Science & Sol | Lerner, A | |||
ESYS 187B | Senior Internship Project II | Hetherington, E | |||
ESYS 187C | Envir Sys/Senior Seminar | Hetherington, E | |||
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 20R | The Atmosphere | Russell, L | |||
SIO 25 | Climate Change and Society | Rivera-Collazo, I | |||
SIO 30 | The Oceans | Gille, S; Aarons, S | |||
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 | |||
SIO 87 | First-year Seminar - Weather in San Diego | Norris, J | |||
SIO 87 | First-year Seminar | STAFF | Aburto Oropeza, M | ||
SIO 90 | Undergraduate Seminar | STAFF | STAFF | ||
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 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 125 | Biomechanics of Marine Life | Taylor, J | |||
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 | 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 | Palenik, B | Kacev, D | ||
SIO 141 | Chem Prin of Marine Systems | Pomeroy, R | |||
SIO 143 | Ocean Acidification | Andersson, J | |||
SIO 144 | Intro to Isotope Geochemistry | Day, J | |||
SIO 145 | Intro Field Method Bio Ocean | STAFF; Choy, A | |||
SIO 146 | Cell and Dev. Bio. Lab | Lyons, D | |||
SIO 152 | Petrology and Petrography | Van Allen, E | |||
SIO 153 | Geomorphology | STAFF | |||
SIO 160 | Intro to Global Tectonics | Stegman, D | |||
SIO 161 | Seismology | Fan, W | |||
SIO 162 | Structural Geology | Wright, V | |||
SIO 164 | Underwater Archaeology | STAFF | |||
SIO 167 | Geoarchaeology | Rivera-Collazo, I | |||
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 174 | Chemistry of Atmosph and Ocean | Aluwihare, L | |||
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 182 | Envr & Exploration Geophysics | Constable, S | |||
SIO 183 | Phycology: Marine Plant Biolgy | Smith, J; Khen, A | |||
SIO 184 | Marine Invertebrates | Rouse, G | |||
SIO 187 | Stat Methods in Marine Biology | Kacev, D | |||
SIOB 218 | Ocean & Coastal Law and Policy | Murray, S | |||
SIOB 242A | Marine Biotechnology I | Hamdoun, A | |||
SIOB 242B | Marine Biotechnology II | Jensen, P; Moore, B | |||
SIOB 262 | Marine Chemical Biology Seminr | Jensen, P | STAFF | ||
SIOB 269 | IFER Forum | STAFF | STAFF | ||
SIOB 270 | Pelagic Ecology | STAFF; Allen, A | |||
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 276L | Quantitative Ecology Proj Lab | Sugihara, G | |||
SIOB 276 | Quant Theory/Population&Commun | Sugihara, G | |||
SIOB 278 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences | Decima, M | Bowman, J; Baumann-Pickering, S | Arcila, D | |
SIOB 279 | Ecology Seminar/BO | STAFF | Franks, P | ||
SIOB 280 | Biological Oceanography | Baumann-Pickering, S; Allen, A | |||
SIOB 291 | Biology Graduate Research Pres | Tresguerres, M; Allen, E | Tresguerres, M | ||
SIOB 296 | Special Topics/Ocean Bio | Semmens, B; Brazier, E | Batchelor, H | Mongiardino Koch, N | |
SIOB 296 | Special Topics/Ocean Bio - BO Grad Student Presentations | STAFF | |||
SIOB 297 | Marine Biology Seminar | STAFF | Allen, E | ||
SIOB 298 | Spec Studies/Marine Sciences | Rouse, G | |||
SIOC 200A | Ocean Acoustics&Signal Proc I | Lin, Y | |||
SIOC 200B | Ocean Acoustics&Signal Proc II | Lin, Y | |||
SIOC 201 | Geological Record/Climate Chng | Charles, C | |||
SIOC 202A | Fundamentals of Wave Physics | Hao, X | |||
SIOC 202B | Fundamentals of Wave Physics | Stramski, D; Gabriel, A | |||
SIOC 203A | Intro to Applied Mathematics | Becker, J | |||
SIOC 203B | Intro/Applied Mathematics II | Llewellyn Smith, S | |||
SIOC 203C | Intro/Applied Mathematics III | Young, W | |||
SIOC 208 | Seminar/Applied Ocean Sciences | Merrifield, M | Merrifield, M | Merrifield, M | |
SIOC 209 | Special Topics | Werner, B | |||
SIOC 210 | Physical Oceanography | Purkey, S | |||
SIOC 211A | Ocean Waves I | Alford, M | |||
SIOC 212B | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics II | Cessi, P | |||
SIOC 212A | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics I | Eisenman, I | |||
SIOC 213 | Turbulence and Mixing | Armi, L | |||
SIOC 214A | Intro To Fluid Mechanics | Giddings, S | |||
SIOC 216A | Intro/Physics of Complex Systm | Werner, B | |||
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 | Russell, L; Keeling, R | |||
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 224 | NumericalModel/ClimateSys | Eisenman, I | |||
SIOC 225 | Ice Sheet-Ocean Interactions | Straneo, F | |||
SIOC 228 | ML for Physical Applications | Shi, Y | |||
SIOC 235 | Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction | Xie, S | |||
SIOC 237A | Introduction/Ocean Optics | Stramski, D | |||
SIOC 251 | Radiation in the Atmosphere | Evan, A | |||
SIOC 296 | Climate Science & Policy Forum | Gabriel, C | |||
SIOG 200A | Geophysics Research Skills I | Constable, S | |||
SIOG 200B | Geophysics Research Skills II | Gabriel, A | |||
SIOG 200C | Geophysics Research Skills III | Parnell-Turner, R | |||
SIOG 221 | Plate Tectonics in Practice | Parnell-Turner, R | |||
SIOG 223A | Geophysical Data Analysis I | Morzfeld, M | |||
SIOG 223B | Geophysical Data Analysis II | Agnew, D; Fan, W | |||
SIOG 225 | Physics of Earth Materials | Fialko, Y | |||
SIOG 227A | Introduction to Seismology | Gabriel, A | |||
SIOG 227B | Advanced Seismology I | Laske, M | |||
SIOG 228 | Research Seminar | Allen, E | Kacev, D | Van Allen, E | |
SIOG 229 | Gravity and Geodesy | Borsa, A | |||
SIOG 230 | Introduction to Inverse Theory | Constable, C | |||
SIOG 231 | GeoElectromagnetism | Constable, C; Constable, S | |||
SIOG 232 | Ethical & Professional Science | Constable, C; Constable, S | |||
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 | Haase, J | |||
SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics - Seismology Seminar | Fan, W | |||
SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics - SEISMOLOGY | Gabriel, A | |||
SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics - Seismology | Shearer, P | |||
SIOG 240 | Marine Geology | Gee, J; Charles, C | |||
SIOG 252A | Intro to Isotope Geochemistry | Day, J | |||
SIOG 260 | Marine Chemistry | Barbeau, K | |||
SIOG 268 | Seminar Marine Chem & Geochem | Barbeau, K | |||
SIOG 269 | Spec Topics/Marine Chemistry | Martz, T |