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Courses in the SIO Department
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This page displays the current 2024-25 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 |
ESYS 101 | Environmental Biology | Taylor, J | |||
ESYS 102 | The Solid and Fluid Earth | Haase, J | |||
ESYS 103 | Envrnmntl Chall: Science & Sol | Lerner, A | |||
ESYS 187A | Senior Internship Project I | Hetherington, E | |||
ESYS 187B | Senior Internship Project II | Hetherington, E | |||
ESYS 187C | Envir Sys/Senior Seminar | Hetherington, E | |||
SIO 1 | The Planets | Stegman, D | |||
SIO 3 | Life in the Oceans | Aburto Oropeza, M | |||
SIO 10 | The Earth | Borsa, A | |||
SIO 15 | Natural Disasters | Laske, M | |||
SIO 16 | Geology of the National Parks | Stegman, D | |||
SIO 20R | The Atmosphere | Russell, L | |||
SIO 25 | Climate Change and Society | Hildebrand, J; Frasier, K | Rivera-Collazo, I | ||
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 | |||
SIO 87 | First-year Seminar - Drugs from the Sea? | Gerwick, W | |||
SIO 87 | First-year Seminar - The language of the ocean | Jensen, P | |||
SIO 87 | First-year Seminar - Intro to Volcanoes | Cook, G | |||
SIO 87 | First-year Seminar - Earth and Planetary Science | Wright, V | |||
SIO 87 | First-year Seminar - Rocks that Rock! | Cook, G | |||
SIO 87 | First-year Seminar - Volcanoes | Cook, G | |||
SIO 87 | First-year Seminar | Aburto Oropeza, M | |||
SIO 87 | First-year Seminar - Minerals, Crystals, and Gems | Cook, G | |||
SIO 90 | Undergraduate Seminar | STAFF | STAFF | STAFF | |
SIO 100 | Geological Field Methods | Norris, R; Odlum, M | |||
SIO 101 | California Coast Oceanography | Aluwihare, L | |||
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 | Aarons, S | |||
SIO 109R | Bending/Curve: Climate Change | Forman, F | Forman, F | ||
SIO 110 | Intro GIS & GPS for Scientists | Batchelor, H | |||
SIO 112 | Data Science in Geophysics | Morzfeld, M | |||
SIO 113 | Comp & Data Analysis in Geosci | May, D | |||
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; Andersson, J | |||
SIO 120 | Mineralogy | Cook, G | |||
SIO 121 | Biology of the Cryosphere | Bowman, J | |||
SIO 123 | Microbial Env Systems Biology | Allen, A | |||
SIO 126 | Marine Microbiology | Palenik, B | |||
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 | Sandwell, D; Fricker, H | |||
SIO 136 | Marine Biology Laboratory | Kacev, D | Kacev, D; Shipp, L | ||
SIO 137 | Ecosystems & Fisheries | Choy, A | |||
SIO 139 | Current Research in Marine Bio | 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 147 | Applications of Phylogenetics | STAFF | |||
SIO 152 | Petrology and Petrography | Chin, E | |||
SIO 153 | Geomorphology | Capaldi, T | |||
SIO 160 | Intro to Global Tectonics | Fialko, Y | |||
SIO 161 | Seismology | Fan, W | |||
SIO 162 | Structural Geology | Wright, V | |||
SIO 166 | Environmental 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 | Xie, S | |||
SIO 174 | Chemistry of Atmosph and Ocean | Aluwihare, L; Russell, L | |||
SIO 175 | Analysis Ocean/Atmosph Data | Merrifield, M | |||
SIO 176 | Observ Physical Oceanography | Merrifield, S | |||
SIO 177 | Fluid Dynamics | Becker, J | |||
SIO 178 | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics | Becker, J | |||
SIO 179 | Ocean Instruments and Sensors | Martz, T | |||
SIO 181 | Marine Biochem & Physiology | Tresguerres, M | |||
SIO 182 | Envr & Exploration Geophysics | Constable, S | |||
SIO 184 | Marine Invertebrates | Rouse, G | |||
SIO 187 | Stat Methods in Marine Biology | Kacev, D | |||
SIO 188 | Biology of Fishes | Arcila, D | |||
SIO 189 | Pollution, Environmnt & Health | Hamdoun, A | |||
SIO 190 | Special Topic/Earth/Ocean/Atmo | Lin, Y; Kacev, D; Gaasterland, T | |||
SIO 190L | Spc Topic/Earth/Ocean/Atmo-Lab | Sandin, S | |||
SIOB 218 | Ocean & Coastal Law and Policy | Murray, S | |||
SIOB 242C | Marine Biotechnology III | Gaasterland, T | |||
SIOB 243 | Ecologcl/Med Aspcts-Naturl Prd | Gerwick, W | |||
SIOB 262 | Marine Chemical Biology Seminr | Lukowski, A | Moore, B | Gerwick, W | |
SIOB 265 | Marine Chemical Ecology | Jensen, P | |||
SIOB 270A | Fisheries Oceanography | Petrik, C | |||
SIOB 272 | Advanced Statistical Technique | Sandin, S | |||
SIOB 273 | Professional Ethics in Science | Leichter, J | |||
SIOB 275A | Benthic Ecology | Leichter, J | |||
SIOB 278 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences | Petrik, C; Hamdoun, A | Jensen, P | ||
SIOB 278 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences - Parasites and Biodiverse | Hechinger, R | |||
SIOB 279 | Ecology Seminar/BO | Allen, E | Leichter, J | ||
SIOB 280 | Biological Oceanography | Baumann-Pickering, S; Allen, A | |||
SIOB 282 | Phytoplankton Diversity | Palenik, B | |||
SIOB 284 | Marine Invertebrates | Rouse, G | |||
SIOB 286 | Marine Sci, Econ & Policy | Smith, J; Mesnick, S | Aburto Oropeza, M | ||
SIOB 291 | Biology Graduate Research Pres | STAFF | STAFF | ||
SIOB 296 | Special Topics/Ocean Bio | Batchelor, H | |||
SIOB 297 | Marine Biology Seminar | Allen, E | Allen, E | Allen, E | |
SIOC 200C | Ocean Acoustics&Signal ProcIII | Lin, Y | |||
SIOC 202A | Fundamentals of Wave Physics | Hao, X; Lin, Y | |||
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 207A | Fundamentals/Dig Sign Process | Meyer, F | |||
SIOC 207B | Digital Signal Processing I | Meyer, F | |||
SIOC 208 | Seminar/Applied Ocean Sciences | Merrifield, M | Merrifield, M | STAFF | |
SIOC 209 | Special Topics | Benmarhnia, T; Siegelman, L | |||
SIOC 210 | Physical Oceanography | Purkey, S | |||
SIOC 211A | Ocean Waves I | Mackinnon, J | |||
SIOC 211B | Ocean Waves II | Feddersen, F | |||
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 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 218A | Obs Techniques in Oceanography | Send, U | |||
SIOC 219 | Spec Topics/Physical Oceanogra | Young, W; Mackinnon, J | |||
SIOC 221A | Anlys/Physicl Oceanograph Data | Mackinnon, J | |||
SIOC 221B | Analysis/Physical Ocean Data | Gille, S | |||
SIOC 223 | Proposal Writing / Exp Design | Send, U | |||
SIOC 228 | ML for Physical Applications | Shi, Y | |||
SIOC 235 | Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction | Xie, S | |||
SIOC 237B | Ocean Color Remote Sensing | Stramski, D | |||
SIOC 250 | Advanced Atmospheric Dynamics | Norris, J | |||
SIOG 200A | Geophysics Research Skills I | Constable, S | |||
SIOG 200B | Geophysics Research Skills II | Gabriel, A | |||
SIOG 223A | Geophysical Data Analysis I | Morzfeld, M | |||
SIOG 223B | Geophysical Data Analysis II | Agnew, D; Fan, W | |||
SIOG 224 | Internal Constitution/Earth | Laske, M; Stegman, D | |||
SIOG 225 | Physics of Earth Materials | Fialko, Y | |||
SIOG 227A | Introduction to Seismology | Gabriel, A | |||
SIOG 227C | Advanced Seismology II | Fan, W; Gabriel, A | |||
SIOG 228 | Research Seminar | Hechinger, R | Kacev, D | Chin, E | |
SIOG 229 | Gravity and Geodesy | Borsa, A | |||
SIOG 230 | Introduction to Inverse Theory | Constable, C | |||
SIOG 232 | Ethical & Professional Science | Constable, C; Constable, S | |||
SIOG 233 | Intro to Computing at SIO | Shearer, P | |||
SIOG 234 | Geodynamics | Sandwell, D | |||
SIOG 236 | Satellite Remote Sensing | Sandwell, D; Fricker, H | |||
SIOG 237 | Space Geodesy | Fialko, Y | |||
SIOG 238 | Numerical Methods | May, D | |||
SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics | Haase, J | Gabriel, A | Fan, W | |
SIOG 239 | Special Topics in Geophysics - Seismology | Shearer, P | |||
SIOG 240 | Marine Geology | Charles, C; Parnell-Turner, R | |||
SIOG 249 | Spec Topics in Marine Geology | Norris, R | |||
SIOG 252A | Intro to Isotope Geochemistry | Day, J | |||
SIOG 260 | Marine Chemistry | Schartup, A | |||
SIOG 267 | Marine Chemistry Laboratory | Martz, T |