Additional Info on Courses in the SIO Department
This table shows the approximate frequency of SIO Department course offerings. Due to faculty leaves and unanticipated events, there will be classes that deviate from the frequency shown here. (NB: Biannual means twice each year; biennial means every other year.)
| Course | Title | Normal frequency |
| SIO 1 | The Planets | Annually |
| SIO 3 | Life in the Oceans | Annually |
| SIO 10 | The Earth | Annually |
| SIO 12 | History of the Earth and Evolution | Annually |
| SIO 15 | Natural Disasters | Annually |
| SIO 16 | Geology of the National Parks | Annually |
| SIO 20 | The Atmosphere | Annually |
| SIO 25 | Climate Change and Society | Annually |
| SIO 30 | The Oceans | Annually |
| SIO 35 | Water | Annually |
| SIO 40 | Life and Climate on Earth | Annually |
| SIO 45 | Volcanoes | Annually |
| SIO 50 | Introduction to Earth and Environmental Sciences | Annually |
| SIO 60 | Experiences in Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences | Annually |
| SIO 65 | Geosciences Seminar | Annually |
| SIO 75 | Geological History of Earth | Annually |
| SIO 90 | Undergraduate Seminar | Quarterly |
| SIO 100 | Introduction to Field Methods | Annually |
| SIO 101 | California Coastal Oceanography | Annually |
| SIO 102 | Introduction to Geochemistry | Annually |
| SIO 103 | Introduction to Geophysics | Annually |
| SIO 104 | Paleobiology and History of Life | Occasionally |
| SIO 105 | Sedimentology and Stratigraphy | Annually |
| SIO 106 | Introduction to Hydrogeology | TBD |
| SIO 107 | Water Pollution | Annually |
| SIO 108 | Introduction to Paleoclimatology | Annually |
| SIO 109 | Bending Curve: Climate Change | Annually |
| SIO 110 | Introduction to GIS and GPS for Scientists | Annually |
| SIO 111 | Introduction to Ocean Waves | Annually |
| SIO 113 | Introduction to Computational Earth Science | Annually |
| SIO 115 | Ice and the Climate System | Annually |
| SIO 116 | Climate Change & Global Health | Annually |
| SIO 117 | The Physical Basis of Global Warming | Annually |
| SIO 119 | Physics and Chemistry of the Oceans | Annually |
| SIO 120 | Introduction to Mineralogy | Annually |
| SIO 121 | Biology of the Cryosphere | Occasionally |
| SIO 122 | Ecological Development Biology | Occasionally |
| SIO 123 | Microbial Environmental Systems Biology | Annually |
| SIO 124 | Marine Natural Products | Biennially |
| SIO 125 | Biomechanics of Marine Life | Annually |
| SIO 126 | Marine Microbiology | Annually |
| SIO 127 | Marine Molecular Ecology | Annually |
| SIO 128 | Microbial Life in Extreme Environments | Annually |
| SIO 129 | Marine Chemical Ecology | Occasionally |
| SIO 131 | Parasitology | Biennially |
| SIO 132 | Introduction to Marine Biology | Annually |
| SIO 133 | Marine Mammal Biology | Annually |
| SIO 134 | Introduction to Biological Oceanography | Annually |
| SIO 135 | Satellite Remote Sensing | Annually |
| SIO 136 | Marine Biology Laboratory | Biannually |
| SIO 137 | Ecosystems and Fisheries | Biennially |
| SIO 138 | The Coral Reef Environment | Annually |
| SIO 139 | Current Research in Marine Biology | Biannually |
| SIO 141 | Chemical Principles of Marine Systems | Annually |
| SIO 143 | Ocean Acidification | Annually |
| SIO 144 | Intro to Isotope Geochemistry | Annually |
| SIO 145 | Introduction to Field Methods in Biological Oceanography | Annually |
| SIO 146 | Methods in Cell and Developmental Biology of Marine Organisms. | Biennially |
| SIO 147 | Applications of Phylogenetics | Occasionally |
| SIO 152 | Petrology and Petrography | Annually |
| SIO 155 | Whole Earth Geochemistry | Occasionally |
| SIO 160 | Introduction to Tectonics | Annually |
| SIO 161 | Seismology | Annually |
| SIO 162 | Structural Geology | TBD |
| SIO 164 | Introduction to Maritime Archaeology | Annually |
| SIO 166 | Environmental Archaeology | Biennially |
| SIO 167 | GeoArchaeology | Occasionally |
| SIO 170 | Introduction to Volcanology | Annually |
| SIO 171 | Introduction to Physical Oceanography | Annually |
| SIO 172 | Physics of the Atmosphere | Annually |
| SIO 173 | Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Climate | Annually |
| SIO 174 | Chemistry of the Atmosphere and Oceans | Annually |
| SIO 175 | Analysis of Oceanic and Atmospheric Data | Annually |
| SIO 176 | Observational Physical Oceanography | Annually |
| SIO 177 | Fluid Dynamics | Annually |
| SIO 178 | Geophyiscal Fluid Dynamics | Annually |
| SIO 179 | Ocean Instruments & Sensors | Occasionally |
| SIO 180 | Communicating Science to Informal Audiences | Biennially |
| SIO 181 | Marine Biochemistry | Annually |
| SIO 182 | Environmental and Exploration Geophysics | Annually |
| SIO 183 | Phycology: Marine Plant Biology | Biennially |
| SIO 184 | Marine Invertebrates | Biennially |
| SIO 185 | Marine Microbiology Laboratory | Annually |
| SIO 187 | Statistical Methods in Marine Biology | Annually |
| SIO 188 | Biology of Fishes | Annually |
| SIO 189 | Pollution, Environment and Health | Annually |
| SIOC 201 | Geological Record of Climate Change | Annually |
| SIOC 202A | Fundamentals of Wave Physics | Annually |
| SIOC 202B | Fundamentals of Wave Physics | Annually |
| SIOC 203A | Introduction to Applied Mathematics I | Annually |
| SIOC 203B | Introduction to Applied Mathematics II | Annually |
| SIOC 203C | Introduction to Applied Mathematics III | Annually |
| SIOC 204 | Underwater Acoustics | Biennially |
| SIOC 205 | Estuarine Processes | Biennially |
| SIOC 206 | Land Surface Hydrology | Annually |
| SIOC 207A | Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing | Annually |
| SIOC 207B | Digital Signal Processing I | Annually |
| SIOC 207C | Digital Signal Processing II | Annually |
| SIOC 207D | Array Processing | Occasionally |
| SIOC 208 | Seminar in Applied Ocean Sciences | Quarterly |
| SIOC 210 | Physical Oceanography | Annually |
| SIOC 211A | Ocean Waves I | Annually |
| SIOC 211B | Ocean Waves II | Occasionally |
| SIOC 212A | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics I | Annually |
| SIOC 212B | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics II | Annually |
| SIOC 213 | Turbulence and Mixing | Annually |
| SIOC 214A | Introduction to Fluid Mechanics | Annually |
| SIOC 216A | Introduction to the Physics of Complex Systems | Annually |
| SIOC 216B | Applied Complexity | Annually |
| SIOC 217A | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences I | Annually |
| SIOC 217B | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences II | Annually |
| SIOC 217C | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences III | Annually |
| SIOC 217D | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences IV | Biennially |
| SIOC 218A | Observational Techniques in Oceanography | Annually |
| SIOC 218B | Practical Methods at Sea | Occasionally |
| SIOC 220 | Observations of Large-Scale Ocean Circulation | Annually |
| SIOC 221A | Analysis of Physical Oceanographic Data (A) | Annually |
| SIOC 221B | Analysis of Physical Oceanographic Data (B) | Annually |
| SIOC 221C | Data Analysis Laboratory | Annually |
| SIOC 222 | Underwater Bioacoustics | Occasionally |
| SIOC 223 | Proposal Writing and Oceanographic Experiment Design | Biennially |
| SIOC 224 | Climate Modeling | Biennially |
| SIOC 225 | Ice Sheet - Ocean Interactions | Annually |
| SIOC 228 | Machine Learning for Physical Applications | Annually |
| SIOC 235 | Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Climate | Annually |
| SIOC 237A | Introduction to Ocean Optics | Occasionally |
| SIOC 237B | Ocean Color Remote Sensing | Occasionally |
| SIOC 237C | Optical-Biological Interactions in the Ocean | Occasionally |
| SIOC 250 | Advanced Atmospheric Dynamic | Biennially |
| SIOC 251 | Climate Change: Radiation in the Atmosphere | Biennially |
| SIOC 267 | Biogeochemistry | Annually |
| SIOC 290S | Climate Math and Science | Annually |
| SIOC 291S | Introduction to Climate Policy | Annually |
| SIOC 296 | Climate Science & Policy Forum | Annually |
| SIOG 200A | Geophysics Research Skills I | Annually |
| SIOG 200B | Geophysics Research Skills II | Annually |
| SIOG 200C | Geophysics Research Skills III | Annually |
| SIOG 221 | Plate Tectonics in Practice | Biennially |
| SIOG 222 | Introduction to Industry Reflection Seismic Methods | Biennially |
| SIOG 223A | Geophysical Data Analysis I | Annually |
| SIOG 223B | Geophysical Data Analysis II | Annually |
| SIOG 224 | Internal Constitution of the Earth | Annually |
| SIOG 225 | Physics of Earth Materials | Annually |
| SIOG 227A | Introduction to Seismology | Annually |
| SIOG 227B | Advanced Seismology I | Occasionally (next slated for SP24) |
| SIOG 227C | Advanced Seismology II | Occasionally |
| SIOG 228 | Research Seminar | Quarterly |
| SIOG 229 | Fundamentals of Gravity and Geodesy | Annually |
| SIOG 230 | Introduction to Inverse Theory | Biennially |
| SIOG 231 | Introduction to EM Methods in Geophysics | Biennially |
| SIOG 232 | Ethical and Professional Science | Annually |
| SIOG 233 | Introduction to Computing at SIO | Annually |
| SIOG 234 | Geodynamics | Annually |
| SIOG 235 | Computational Inverse Problems | Biennially |
| SIOG 236 | Satellite Remote Sensing | Annually |
| SIOG 237 | Space Geodesy | Annually |
| SIOG 240 | Marine Geology | Annually |
| SIOG 242 | Rates and Dates: Application of Modern Geochronology | Occasionally |
| SIOG 251 | Whole Earth Geochemistry | Occasionally |
| SIOG 252A | Introduction to Isotope Geochemistry | Annually |
| SIOG 260 | Marine Chemistry | Annually |
| SIOG 263 | Aqueous Chemistry | Annually |
| SIOG 267 | Marine Chemistry Laboratory | Occasionally |
| SIOG 268 | Seminar in Geochemistry and Marine Chemistry | Biennially |
| SIOG 270 | Archaeology of Climate Change | Occasionally |
| SIOG 275 | Paleoethnobotany | Occasionally (next slated for FA24) |
| SIOB 218 | Ocean Law and Policy | Annually |
| SIOB 242A | Marine Biotechnology I: Tools and Methods | Biennially |
| SIOB 242B | Marine Biotechnology II: Applications | Biennially |
| SIOB 242C | Marine Biotechnology III: Introduction to Bioinformatics | Biennially |
| SIOB 243 | Ecological and Medicinal Aspects of Natural Products | Biennially |
| SIOB 262 | Marine Chemical Biology Seminar | Quarterly |
| SIOB 265 | Marine Chemical Ecology | Occasionally |
| SIOB 269 | IFER Forum | Quarterly |
| SIOB 270 | Pelagic Ecology | Biennially |
| SIOB 271 | Marine Zooplankton | Occasionally |
| SIOB 272 | Advanced Statistical Techniques | Annually |
| SIOB 273 | Professional Ethics in Science | Biennially |
| SIOB 274 | Natural History Below the Tide | Occasionally |
| SIOB 275A | Benthic Ecology | Occasionally |
| SIOB 276 | Quantitative Theory of Populations and Communities | Annually |
| SIOB 276L | Quantitative Ecology Project Lab | Annually |
| SIOB 277 | Deep-Sea Biology | Biennially |
| SIOB 279 | Ecology Seminar | Quarterly |
| SIOB 280 | Biological Oceanography | Annually |
| SIOB 281 | Marine Physiology | Biennially |
| SIOB 282 | Phytoplankton Diversity | Biennially |
| SIOB 285 | Physical-Biological Interactions | Biennially |
| SIOB 291 | Biology Graduate Research Presentations | Quarterly |
| SIOB 294 | Biology of Fishes | Annually |
| SIOB 297 | Marine Biology Seminar | Quarterly |
| SIO 295S | Introduction to Marine Biodiversity and Conservation—Seminar | Annually |
| SIO 295 LS | Introduction to Marine Biodiversity and Conservation—Lab | Annually |
| MBC 258 | Marine Conservation and Communication Practicum I | Annually |
| MBC 259 | Marine Conservation and Communication Practicum II | Annually |
| CCS 101 | Carbon Neutrality Initiative at University of California | Annually |
| CCS 102 | Research Perspectives on Climate Change | Annually |
| CCS 123 | Policy and Politics of Climate Change | Annually |
| ESYS 10 | Introduction to Environmental Systems | Annually |
| ESYS 90 | Perspectives on Environmental Issues | Annually |
| ESYS 101 | Environmental Biology | Annually |
| ESYS 102 | The Solid and Fluid Earth | Annually |
| ESYS 103 | Environmental Challenges: Science and Solutions | Annually |
| ESYS 187A | Senior Internship Project I | Annually |
| ESYS 187B | Senior Internship Project II | Annually |
| ESYS 187C | Environmental Systems Senior Seminar | Annually |