Robert Knox, a former associate director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and a visionary who helped ...

Studying the tectonic forces within the Earth give rise to continents, ocean basins, mountain ranges, earthquake belts, and most volcanoes, along with the resulting deformation of geological ...

Supports Internet-data applications in the research, education, and public safety realms in San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial counties. Processes and archives high-precision GPS data for the study of ...

Using radioactive isotope systems to determine the age and origins of minerals and rocks, primarily as tracers of magmatic processes and the evolution of the earth. Organic molecules in natural waters ...

Collecting and processing data on the earth, oceans, and atmosphere using cameras, lasers, and a variety of electromagnetic sensors.

The study of the earth's changing magnetic field at geological and societal timescales, especially through the analysis of remanent magnetism in rocks and human artifacts. The main function of the ...

The study of the oceans and ecology of marine organisms in the geologic past, largely through the marine sedimentary record. The Human Ecology Laboratory groups together students and researchers to ...

Instruments and systems used to measure and monitor changes in the earth, from seismometers to strainmeters, satellites to infrasound arrays.

The study of the origin and history of the solar system, planets and natural satellites, interplanetary dust and interstellar medium, lunar samples, meteors, and meteorites, asteroids, comets, craters ...

The study of the production, transportation, and deposition of rock particles at varying time scales.

Quantitative descriptions of processes fundamental to the Earth, often focusing on modeling and inverse theory.

Ria Bhabu is a first-year PhD student studying marine biology, specifically cell and molecular marine biology, at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Bhabu is originally from Delhi, ...