The group focuses on observing and modeling coastal processes including beach evolution, cliff erosion, and nearshore waves.
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
Centers, Labs, and Programs
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
New research shows people, wildlife, and marine environment benefit when island-ocean connections are restored
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Reflections on COP27 from a First-Time Delegate
Denise Alcantara one of 20 UCSD students at international climate nego...
Historic Keeling Curve Observation Interrupted by Volcanic Eruption
Options for relocating measurement equipment being explored