This September, UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography invites the community to join in celebrating a milestone: ...

Three scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography will be honored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) at the AGU Annual Meeting through its Honors and Recognition program, ...

The ocean dominates Earth's surface and greatly affects our daily lives. It regulates Earth's climate, plays a critical role in the hydrological cycle, sustains a large portion of Earth's biodiversity ...

UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography has launched an online resource hub to help the public understand the potential impacts of a powerful El Niño event on California.

An enormous but poorly understood region of the global ocean—referred to as the abyssal benthic boundary layer—lies a few meters above the seafloor and has only been sampled a handful of times. A ...

Physical oceanography examines the motions, structure and energy exchanges that govern the ocean’s role in Earth’s climate and marine ecosystems. At its core are the wind-driven surface currents that ...

Satellite Oceanography involves use of Satellite Remote Sensing for studying ocean circulation and climate change utilizing both active microwave sensors (altimeters, scatterometers, imagers) and ...

Description: Introduces descriptive and dynamical physical oceanography, focusing on the nature and dynamics of ocean currents and their role in the distribution of heat and other aspects of ocean ...

The short answer to, "What does an oceanographer do?" is this: An oceanographer studies the ocean. But the long answer is more complicated. Many different jobs exist that are related to oceanography, ...