Research Topics

Scripps Oceanography researchers work in a variety of fields in biology, earth science, and oceans and atmospheric science. Select any of the topics below for a sampling of researchers in that field, labs and centers associated with the topic, and news stories about the work. 

Biology

• Biological Impacts of Climate Change
• Chemical Ecology
• Coastal Ecology
• Conservation Ecology
• Coral Reef Biology and Ecology
• Deep-Sea Biology
• Developmental Biology of Marine Organisms
• Ecosystem Dynamics and Theory
• Environmental Toxicology
• Fisheries Biology and Management
• Genomics, Metagenomics, and Bioinformatics
• Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology
• Life History Strategies and Behaviors
• Marine Benthic Ecology
• Marine Chemical Biology and Biotechnology
• Marine Mammal Biology
• Marine Microbiology
• Natural Products Chemistry
• Phylogenetics, Systematics and Biogeography
• Physiology of Marine Organisms
• Phytoplankton Biology and Algal Biofuels
• Plankton Ecology and Food-Web Interactions
• Polar Ecology
• Population and Community Ecology
• Population Genetics and Evolutionary Biology

Earth

• Acoustics and Infrasound
• Archaeology
• Biogeochemistry
• Coastal Processes
• Cryosphere and Polar Science
• Electromagnetism
• Geodesy and Lithospheric Deformation
• Geodynamics
• Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism
• Geomorphology
• High Temperature Geochemistry
• Hydrogeology
• Instrumentation and Observational Networks
• Isotopic Geochemistry
• Low Temperature Geochemistry
• Marine, Atmospheric, and Aqueous Tracers
• Marine Chemistry
• Marine Geology and Geophysics
• Mathematical and Theoretical Geophysics
• Planetary Sciences and Meteoritics
• Numerical Modeling
• Paleoceanography and Paleoecology
• Remote Sensing
• Sedimentary Processes
• Seismology and Earthquake Physics
• Tectonics and Structural Geology
• Volcanology

Oceans & Atmosphere

• Applied Ocean Sciences
• Atmospheric Aerosols and Chemistry
• Autonomous Ocean Platforms and Global Observing Systems
• Biogeochemistry and Greenhouse Gases
• Climate Change and Health
• Climate Sciences
• Cloud Physics and Boundary Layer Processes
• Coastal Oceanography
• Environmental Justice
• Global Hydrography and Circulation
• Ice in the Climate System
• Internal Waves and Ocean Mixing
• Land Surface Hydrology
• Modeling and State Estimation of the Oceans, Atmosphere, and Climate
• Nearshore and Surf Zone Processes
• Nonlinear and Surface Waves
• Ocean Acidification
• Ocean Acoustics
• Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions
• Ocean Instrumentation and Technology
• Ocean Optics
• Past Climate Change
• Physical Oceanography
• Public Health and Epidemiology
• Remote Sensing and Satellite Oceanography
• Southern Ocean and High-Latitude Climate Studies
• Tropical Meteorology and Oceanography
• Upper Ocean and Submesoscale Processes