Studies the interior of planets, specifically terrestrial bodies like Earth, the Moon, Mars, and Mercury.
Earth
High Temperature Geochemistry
Understanding the chemical processes affecting minerals, water, and air at high temperatures and pressures, typically deep below earth's surface.
Academics
Centers, Labs, and Programs
Specializing in high-precision isotopic analyses, elemental abundances, and petrology. Our main areas of research are in the fields of cosmochemistry and mantle and crustal geochemistry.
Earth News
Sep 16, 2021
Scripps Oceanography Welcomes New Faculty Members
Colleen Petrik and Vashan Wright are among the most recent faculty hir...
Sep 16, 2021
SURF Program at Scripps Oceanography Wraps Up Another Successful Year in 2021
Scripps’ summer research program returns to in-person learning opportu...