Oceans and Atmosphere

Remote Sensing and Satellite Oceanography

Satellite remote sensing provides global observations of Earth to monitor environmental changes in land, oceans, and ice through electromagnetic radiation, diffraction, electro-optical, and microwave systems. (ICESat-2 rendering courtesy NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

Academics

Morgan Levy
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Amato Evan
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Luc Lenain
Associate Research Scientist / Technical Director
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John Orcutt
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Kait Frasier
Assistant Research Scientist
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Research Geophysicist
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Sarah Gille
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Centers, Labs, and Programs

The group focuses on observing and modeling coastal processes including beach evolution, cliff erosion, and nearshore waves.

Provide water cycle science, technology and outreach to support effective policies and practices that address the impacts of extreme weather and water events on the environment, people and the economy of western North America.

Focused on the development of an understanding of interaction of light with seawater constituents, variability in ocean optical properties, and propagation of light within the ocean and across the air-water boundary.

Focused on understanding the interactions between light and living organisms.

Oceans and Atmosphere News

Scripps Student Spotlight: Eesha Rangani

Marine biology master’s student studying invertebrates, involving the ...

New Study Examines Noise Reduction from Retrofitted Shipping Vessels

Scripps Whale Acoustics Lab teams up with shipping giant Maersk to ide...

A Scientist's Life: Luc Lenain

Oceanographer studies interplay between ocean and atmosphere