Courses 2020-2021
This is a tentative listing of Scripps courses for the 2020-2021 academic year. Courses are offered by listed instructors for a specific quarter. If no instructors are listed, the course is not being offered this academic year. Please refer to UCSD's Schedule of Classes for times and locations. For course descriptions, either click on the course number or visit the UCSD Catalog.
To view syllabi of current and past course offerings, please visit: scripps.ucsd.edu/education/course-syllabi
Please note that not all courses are offered on a yearly basis. You can find archived course schedules here: 2019-20, 2018-19
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| Course | Units | Course Title | Fall Quarter 2020 |
Winter Quarter 2021 |
Spring Quarter 2021 |
Summer Quarter 2021 |
| SIO 1 | 4 | The Planets | ||||
| SIO 3 | 4 | Life in the Oceans | Aburto Oropeza | |||
| SIO 10 | 4 | The Earth | Borsa | |||
| SIO 12 | 4 | History of the Earth and Evolution | Peach | |||
| SIO 15 | 4 | Natural Disasters | Laske | |||
| SIO 16 | 4 | Geology of the National Parks | Gee | |||
| SIO 20 | 4 | The Atmosphere | C. Wall | |||
| SIO 25 | 4 | Climate Change and Society | Teranes | |||
| SIO 30 | 4 | The Oceans | Castillo / MacKinnon | |||
| SIO 35 | 4 | Water | Driscoll | |||
| SIO 40 | 4 | Life and Climate on Earth | Barbeau | |||
| SIO 45 | 4 | Volcanoes | Cook | |||
| SIO 45GS | 4 | Global Volcanism | ||||
| SIO 50 | 6 | Introduction to Earth and Environmental Sciences | Cook | Cook | ||
| SIO 60 | 4 | Experiences in Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences | Lucas / Ricke | |||
| SIO 87 | 1 | First-year Seminar: An Introduction To Volcanoes | Cook | Cook | ||
| SIO 87 | 1 | First-year Seminar: Drugs from the Sea | W. Gerwick | |||
| SIO 87 | 1 | First-year Seminar: Microbiome Science | Gilbert | |||
| SIO 87 | 1 | First-year Seminar: Rocks that Rock | Cook | |||
| SIO 87 | 1 | First-year Seminar: The Need for Shade | Lutsko | |||
| SIO 90 | 1 | Undergraduate Seminar | Bowman | Moore | TBD | |
| SIO 96 | Frontiers in Earth Sciences | |||||
| SIO 100 | 4 | Introduction to Field Methods | R. Norris / Chin | |||
| SIO 101 | 4 | California Coastal Oceanography | Aluwihare / Landry | |||
| SIO 102 | 4 | Introduction to Geochemistry | Kastner / Day | |||
| SIO 103 | 4 | Introduction to Geophysics | Parnell-Turner | |||
| SIO 104 | 6 | Paleobiology and History of Life | R. Norris | |||
| SIO 105 | 4 | Sedimentology and Stratigraphy | Driscoll | |||
| SIO 106 | 4 | Introduction to Hydrogeology | Brown | |||
| SIO 108 | 4 | Introduction to Paleoclimatology | Teranes | |||
| SIO 109 | 4 | Bending Curve: Climate Change | Ramanathan / Forman | |||
| SIO 110 | 4 | Introduction to GIS and GPS for Scientists | Batchelor | |||
| SIO 111 | 4 | Introduction to Ocean Waves *Offered Alternate Years* | Feddersen | |||
| SIO 113 | 4 | Introduction to Computational Earth Science | May | |||
| SIO 114 | 4 | Science / Analysis of Environmental Justice | ||||
| SIO 115 | 4 | Ice and the Climate System | Fricker | |||
| SIO 116 | 4 | Climate Change & Global Health | ||||
| SIO 117 | 4 | The Physical Basis of Global Warming | Keeling | |||
| SIO 119 | 4 | Physics and Chemistry of the Oceans | Andersson / Send | |||
| SIO 120 | 4 | Introduction to Mineralogy | Cook | |||
| SIO 121 | 4 | Biology of the Cryosphere | ||||
| SIO 121GS | 4 | Geology of the Alps | ||||
| SIO 122 | 4 | Ecological Development Biology | Lyons | |||
| SIO 123 | 4 | Microbial Environmental Systems Biology | A. Allen | |||
| SIO 124 | 4 | Marine Natural Products | ||||
| SIO 125 | 4 | Biomechanics of Marine Life | Taylor | |||
| SIO 126 | 4 | Marine Microbiology | Palenik | |||
| SIO 127 | 4 | Marine Molecular Ecology | Burton | |||
| SIO 128 | 4 | Microbial Life in Extreme Environments | Bartlett | |||
| SIO 129 | 4 | Marine Chemical Ecology | ||||
| SIO 130 | 4 | Scientific Diving |
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| SIO 131 | 6 | Parasitology *Offered Alternate Years. Next offered in 2021-22* | ||||
| SIO 132 | 4 | Introduction to Marine Biology | ||||
| SIO 133 | 4 | Marine Mammal Biology | Kacev / Baumann-Pickering | |||
| SIO 134 | 4 | Introduction to Biological Oceanography | Barton | |||
| SIO 135 | 4 | Satellite Remote Sensing | Fricker / Sandwell | |||
| SIO 136 | 6 | Marine Biology Laboratory |
Kacev / Wegner / Bowman / Baumann-Pickering |
Kacev / Wegner / Bowman / Baumann-Pickering |
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| SIO 137 | 4 | Ecosystems and Fisheries | ||||
| SIO 138 | 4 | The Coral Reef Environment | Charles / Leichter / Smith | |||
| SIO 139 | 2 | Current Research in Marine Biology | Kacev | Kacev | ||
| SIO 141 | 4 | Chemical Principles of Marine Systems | Dickson | |||
| SIO 143 | 4 | Ocean Acidification | Andersson | |||
| SIO 144 | 4 | Intro to Isotope Geochemistry | Day / Severinghaus | |||
| SIO 145 | 6 | Introduction to Field Methods in Biological Oceanography | Choy / Decima | |||
| SIO 146 | 6 | Methods in Cell and Developmental Biology of Marine Organisms Lab *Offered Alternate Years. Next offered in 2021-22* | ||||
| SIO 147 | 6 | Applications of Phylogenetics *Offered Alternate Years* | Rouse | |||
| SIO 152 | 6 | Petrology and Petrography | Chin | |||
| SIO 153 | 4 | Geomorphology | ||||
| SIO 155 | 4 | Whole Earth Geochemistry | ||||
| SIO 160 | 4 | Introduction to Tectonics | Fialko | |||
| SIO 162 | 4 | Structural Geology | Brown | |||
| SIO 164 | 4 | Introduction to Maritime Archaeology | ||||
| SIO 166 | 4 | Environmental Archaeology | ||||
| SIO 167 | 4 | GeoArchaeology | Rivera-Collazo | |||
| SIO 170 | 4 | Introduction to Volcanology | ||||
| SIO 171 | 4 | Introduction to Physical Oceanography | Rudnick | |||
| SIO 172 | 4 | Physics of the Atmosphere | Evan | |||
| SIO 173 | 4 |
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| SIO 174 | 4 | Chemistry of the Atmosphere and Oceans | Russell / Severinghaus | |||
| SIO 175 | 4 | Analysis of Oceanic and Atmospheric Data | M. Merrifield | |||
| SIO 176 | 4 | Observational Physical Oceanography | Straneo | |||
| SIO 177 | 4 | Fluid Dynamics | Becker | |||
| SIO 178 | 4 | Geophyiscal Fluid Dynamics | Becker | |||
| SIO 179 | 4 | Ocean Instruments & Sensors | ||||
| SIO 180 | 4 | Communicating Science to Informal Audiences |
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| SIO 181 | 4 | Marine Biochemistry | Tresguerres | |||
| SIO 182 | 4 | Environmental and Exploration Geophysics | ||||
| SIO 183 | Phycology: Marine Plant Biology *Offered Alternate Years. Next Offered 2021-22* | |||||
| SIO 184 | 6 | Marine Invertebrates *Offered Alternate Years* | ||||
| SIO 185 | 5 | Marine Microbiology Laboratory | ||||
| SIO 187 | 4 | Statistical Methods in Marine Biology | Kacev | Kacev | ||
| SIO 188 | 5 | Biology of Fishes | Hastings | |||
| SIO 189 | 4 | Pollution, Environment and Health | Hamdoun | |||
| SIO 190 | 4 | Special Topics in Earth Sciences: Prof. Issues / Bioinformatics | ||||
| SIO 192 | 1 | Senior Seminar | ||||
| SIOC 200A | 4 | Computational Ocean Acoustics and Signal Processing I | ||||
| SIOC 200B | 4 | Computational Ocean Acoustics and Signal Processing II | ||||
| SIOC 200C | 4 | Computational Ocean Acoustics and Signal Processing III | ||||
| SIOC 201 | 4 | Geological Record of Climate Change | ||||
| SIOC 202A | 4 | Fundamentals of Wave Physics | Buckingham / Hendershott | |||
| SIOC 202B | 4 | Fundamentals of Wave Physics | Stramski | |||
| SIOC 203A | 4 | Introduction to Applied Mathematics I | Sanchez (MAE) | |||
| SIOC 203B | 4 | Introduction to Applied Mathematics II | Llewellyn-Smith | |||
| SIOC 203C | 5 | Introduction to Applied Mathematics III | Young | |||
| SIOC 204 | 4 | Underwater Acoustics | Buckingham | |||
| SIOC 205 | 4 | Estuarine Processes | ||||
| SIOC 206 | 4 | Land Surface Hydrology | ||||
| SIOC 207A | 4 | Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing | Meyer | |||
| SIOC 207B | 4 | Digital Signal Processing I | Rao | |||
| SIOC 207C | 4 | Digital Signal Processing II | ||||
| SIOC 207D | 4 | Array Processing | ||||
| SIOC 208 | 1 | Seminar in Applied Ocean Sciences | Hildebrand | Hildebrand | Hildebrand | |
| SIOC 209 | 4 | Special Topics: Hacking the Environment: Oceans | S. Merrifield | |||
| SIOC 209 | 1 | Special Topics: MatLab Boot Camp | Giddings | |||
| SIOC 209 | 2 | Special Topics: What Caused the Mid-Pleistocene Transition | Severinghaus | |||
| SIOC 209 | 4 | Special Topics: Mesoscale Meteorology | ||||
| SIOC 210 | 4 | Physical Oceanography | Purkey / Talley | |||
| SIOC 211A | 4 | Ocean Waves I | MacKinnon | |||
| SIOC 211B | 4 | Ocean Waves II | ||||
| SIOC 212A | 4 | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics I | Eisenman | |||
| SIOC 212B | 5 | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics II | Cessi | |||
| SIOC 213 | 4 | Turbulence and Mixing | ||||
| SIOC 214A | 4 | Introduction to Fluid Mechanics | Giddings | |||
| SIOC 214B | 4 | Environmental Fluid Dynamics | ||||
| SIOC 215A | 4 | Applied Mathematics for Oceanographers I | ||||
| SIOC 215B | 4 | Applied Mathematics for Oceanographers II | ||||
| SIOC 215C | 4 | Applied Mathematics for Oceanographers III | ||||
| SIOC 216A | 4 | Introduction to the Physics of Complex Systems | Werner | |||
| SIOC 216B | 4 | Applied Complexity | ||||
| SIOC 217A | 4 | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences I | Russell | |||
| SIOC 217B | 4 | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences II | Xie | |||
| SIOC 217C | 4 | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences III | Lutsko | |||
| SIOC 217D | 4 | Atmospheric and Climate Sciences IV | ||||
| SIOC 218 | 4 | Cloud Dynamics and Climate | ||||
| SIOC 218A | 4 | Observational Techniques in Oceanography | Send | |||
| SIOC 218B | 4 | Practical Methods at Sea | ||||
| SIOC 219 | 1 | Special Topics in Physical Oceanography: Theory Seminar | Cessi | |||
| SIOC 219 | 4 | Special Topics in Physical Oceanography: GFD 3 (next offered 2021-22) | ||||
| SIOC 219 | 4 | Special Topics in Physical Oceanography: Data Analysis and Paper Writing | Alford/Send |
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| SIOC 220 | 4 | Observations of Large-Scale Ocean Circulation | Talley | |||
| SIOC 221A | 4 | Analysis of Physical Oceanographic Data (A) | Gille | |||
| SIOC 221B | 4 | Analysis of Physical Oceanographic Data (B) | Rudnick / Purkey | |||
| SIOC 221C | 4 | Data Analysis Laboratory | Alford | |||
| SIOC 222 | 4 | Underwater Bioacoustics | ||||
| SIOC 223 | 4 | Proposal Writing and Oceanographic Experiment Design | ||||
| SIOC 224 | 4 | Climate Modeling | ||||
| SIOC 228 | 4 | Machine Learning for Physical Applications | Gerstoft | |||
| SIOC 235 | 4 | Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Climate | Xie | |||
| SIOC 237A | 4 | Introduction to Ocean Optics | Stramski | |||
| SIOC 237B | 4 | Ocean Color Remote Sensing | ||||
| SIOC 237C | 4 | Optical-Biological Interactions in the Ocean | ||||
| SIOC 238 | 4 | Sensor Networks | ||||
| SIOC 241 | 4 | Advanced Signal Processing for Structural Vibrations and Acoustics | ||||
| SIOC 250 | 4 | Advanced Atmospheric Dynamic | ||||
| SIOC 251 | 4 | Climate Change: Radiation in the Atmosphere | Evan | |||
| SIOC 254 | 4 | Science of Climate Change | ||||
| SIOC 261 | 4 | Nearshore Physical Oceanography | ||||
| SIOC 267 | 4 | Biogeochemistry | Severinghaus | |||
| SIOC 290S | 6 | Climate Math | ||||
| SIOC 291S | 6 | @Climate | ||||
| SIOC 292 | 4 | Introduction to Climate Science & Policy | ||||
| SIOC 293 | 4 | Ocean-Atmosphere Processes and Climate Variability | ||||
| SIOC 296 | 2 | Climate Science & Policy Forum | Gabriel | |||
| SIOC 296 | 2 | Climate Science & Policy Forum: Politics and Policy of Climate Change | ||||
| SIOG 222 | 4 | Introduction to Industry Reflection Seismic Methods | ||||
| SIOG 223A | 4 | Geophysical Data Analysis I | Morzfeld | |||
| SIOG 223B | 4 | Geophysical Data Analysis II | Agnew | |||
| SIOG 224 | 4 | Internal Constitution of the Earth | Stegman / Laske | |||
| SIOG 225 | 4 | Physics of Earth Materials | Fialko | |||
| SIOG 227A | 4 | Introduction to Seismology | Shearer | |||
| SIOG 227B | 4 | Advanced Seismology I | ||||
| SIOG 227C | 4 | Advanced Seismology II | ||||
| SIOG 228 | 2 | Research Seminar | E. Allen | Barbeau | Kacev | |
| SIOG 229 | 4 | Gravity and Geomagnetism | Borsa / C. Constable | |||
| SIOG 230 | 4 | Introduction to Inverse Theory | C. Constable | |||
| SIOG 231 | 4 | Introduction to EM Methods in Geophysics | ||||
| SIOG 232 | 2 | Ethical and Professional Science | C. Constable / S. Constable | |||
| SIOG 233 | 4 | Introduction to Computing at SIO | ||||
| SIOG 234 | 4 | Geodynamics | Sandwell | |||
| SIOG 236 | 4 | Satellite Remote Sensing | Fricker / Sandwell | |||
| SIOG 237 | 2 | Space Geodesy | Fialko | |||
| SIOG 238 | 4 | Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations | ||||
| SIOG 239 | 1 | Special Topics in Geophysics: Geophysics First-year Seminar | Laske | Borsa | Morzfeld | |
| SIOG 239 | 4 | Special Topics in Geophysics: TBA |
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| SIOG 240 | 4 | Marine Geology | Charles / Gee | |||
| SIOG 242 | 4 | Rates and Dates: Application of Modern Geochronology | ||||
| SIOG 244 | 4 | Shape and Structure of the Ocean Floor | ||||
| SIOG 246 | 4 | Global Tectonics and Basin Formation | ||||
| SIOG 247 | 4 | Rock Magnetism and Paleomagnetism | ||||
| SIOG 249 | 1-4 | Special Topics: Climate Change Impacts on Arctic Indigenous People | Aarons | |||
| SIOG 251 | 4 | Whole Earth Geochemistry | ||||
| SIOG 252A | 4 | Introduction to Isotope Geochemistry | ||||
| SIOG 252B | 4 | Advanced Isotope Geochemistry I | ||||
| SIOG 252C | 4 | Advanced Isotope Geochemistry II | ||||
| SIOG 253 | 4 | Interactions of Oceanic Plates and the California Margin | ||||
| SIOG 255 | 6 | Paleobiology and History of Life | ||||
| SIOG 255A | 3 | Topics in Paleobiology and History of Life | ||||
| SIOG 257 | 4 | Seminar in Petrology | ||||
| SIOG 260 | 4 | Marine Chemistry | Schartup / Dickson | |||
| SIOG 261 | 4 | Introduction to Rheology of Solid Earth | ||||
| SIOG 263 | 4 | Aqueous Chemistry | Dickson | |||
| SIOG 267 | 4 | Marine Chemistry Laboratory | Martz | |||
| SIOG 268 | 2 | Seminar in Geochemistry and Marine Chemistry | Diaz | Martz | ||
| SIOG 269 | 2 | Special Topics in Marine Chemistry: Agro-Food Systems from the Biogeochemical Perspective | Schartup | |||
| SIOG 270 | 4 | The Archaeology of Climate Change: Social Adaptation and Vulnerability in Temporal Perspective | ||||
| SIOB 242A | 4 | Marine Biotechnology I: Tools and Methods | Hamdoun / Gilbert | |||
| SIOB 242B | 4 | Marine Biotechnology II: Applications | ||||
| SIOB 242C | 4 | Marine Biotechnology III: Introduction to Bioinformatics | Gaasterland | |||
| SIOB 243 | 2 | Ecological and Medicinal Aspects of Natural Products | W. Gerwick | |||
| SIOB 262 | 2 | Marine Chemical Biology Seminar | Jensen | Moore | W. Gerwick | |
| SIOB 264 | 4 | Special Topics in Marine Natural Products Chemistry | ||||
| SIOB 265 | 4 | Marine Chemical Ecology | Jensen | |||
| SIOB 269 | 2 | IFER Forum | Pedersen (Anthropology) | Gartzke (Political Science) | Bowman | |
| SIOB 270 | 4 | Pelagic Ecology | ||||
| SIOB 270A | 4 | Fisheries Oceanography | ||||
| SIOB 271 | 5 | Marine Zooplankton | Ohman | |||
| SIOB 272 | 4 | Advanced Statistical Techniques | Sandin | |||
| SIOB 273 | 2 | Professional Ethics in Science | ||||
| SIOB 274 | 6 | Natural History Below the Tide | ||||
| SIOB 275A | 4 | Benthic Ecology | ||||
| SIOB 275B | 6 | Natural History of Coastal Habitats | ||||
| SIOB 276 | 4 | Quantitative Theory of Populations and Communities | Sugihara | |||
| SIOB 276L | 4 | Quantitative Ecology Project Lab | Sugihara | |||
| SIOB 277 | 4 | Deep-Sea Biology | ||||
| SIOB 278 | 2 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences:Current Topics in Marine Microbiology | Jensen | |||
| SIOB 278 | 2 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: Ecological Parasitology | Hechinger | |||
| SIOB 278 | 2 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: BO Project Writeup | ||||
| SIOB 278 | 2 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: Writing a Thesis Proposal | Franks | |||
| SIOB 278 | 2 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: Current Topics in Coastal Biophysics | Leichter | |||
| SIOB 278 | 2 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: International Policy | Levin | |||
| SIOB 278 | 2 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: Hot topics in cold places: Recent research in polar biology | Bowman | |||
| SIOB 278 | 2 | Seminar in Ocean Biosciences: California Current Ecosystem Dynamics | Ohman | |||
| SIOB 279 | 1 | Ecology Seminar | A. Allen | A. Allen | A. Allen | |
| SIOB 280 | 4 | Biological Oceanography | Franks | |||
| SIOB 281 | 4 | Marine Physiology | ||||
| SIOB 282 | 4 | Phytoplankton Diversity | Palenik | |||
| SIOB 283 | 5 | Phycology: Marine Plant Biology | ||||
| SIOB 284 | 6 | Marine Invertebrates | ||||
| SIOB 285 | 4 | Physical-Biological Interactions | Franks | |||
| SIOB 286 | 4 | Marine Science, Economics and Policy: Sustainable Seafood | Mesnick | |||
| SIOB 286 | 4 | Marine Science, Economics and Policy: Marine Protected Areas | Sandin | |||
| SIOB 287A | 4 | Marine Microbial Ecology | ||||
| SIOB 287B | 4 | Microbial Physiology | ||||
| SIOB 289 | 4 | Pollution, Environment, and Health | ||||
| SIOB 290 | 4 | Marine Biology | ||||
| SIOB 291 | 2 | Biology Graduate Research Presentations | Taylor | TBD | TBD | |
| SIOB 292 | 4 | Communicating Science to Informal Audiences |
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| SIOB 293 | 6 | Applications of Phylogenetics *Offered Alternate Years* 2020 | ||||
| SIOB 294 | 5 | Biology of Fishes | Hastings | |||
| SIOB 295 | 4 | Behavior and Ecology of Fishes | ||||
| SIOB 296 | 4 | Special Topics in Marine Biology: Ocean Law and Policy | Murray | |||
| SIOB 296 | 2 | Special Topics in Marine Biology: Bycatch: Problems and Solutions | Semmens | |||
| SIOB 296 | 4 | Special Topics in Marine Biology: Survey Design and Analysis | Brazier | |||
| SIOB 296 | 4 | Special Topics in Marine Biology: Data Analysis & Modeling Tech | Semmens | |||
| SIOB 296 | 4 | Special Topics in Marine Biology: Marine GIS | Batchelor | |||
| SIOB 296 | 4 | Special Topics in Marine Biology: Introduction to Programming with R | Archer | |||
| SIOB 297 | 1 | Marine Biology Seminar | E. Allen | E. Allen | E. Allen | |
| SIOB 298 | 1-4 | Special Studies in Marine Sciences | ||||
| SIO 295S | 8 | Introduction to Marine Biodiversity and Conservation—Seminar | Kacev | |||
| SIO 295 LS | 8 | Introduction to Marine Biodiversity and Conservation—Lab | Kacev | |||
| MBC 258 | 1 | Marine Biodiversity & Conservation Forum | Murray | Murray |