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Aluwihare Lab
Welcome to the Aluwihare CABOOM lab, with lots of soul and flavor for your surfing pleasure.

Analytical Laboratory Facility
Elemental (CHN) Analyzer, Environ. Scanning, Electron Microscope, ICP - Mass Spectrometer, ICP - Optical Emission Spectrometer, X-Ray Diffractometer

Atmospheric Aerosol Group Home Page
The Atmospheric Aerosol Group investigates the behavior of aerosol particles in the Earth's atmosphere under both pristine marine and anthropogenically-influenced conditions.

Barbeau Lab website
Describes current research in the laboratory of Kathy Barbeau.

Birch Aquarium at Scripps
The Birch Aquarium at Scripps is the interpretive center for Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

Broadband Seismic Data Collection Center
The Broadband Seismic Data Collection Center is responsible for the collection and distribution of seismic data from several regional networks, small aperture arrays, and portable instrument deployments. We maintain local archives of all data collected and distribute the data through the IRIS-DMC.

C4: The Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate
We seek to integrate observations and field-tested hypotheses with models used for climate predictions. We identify gaps in current observing systems; fill these gaps with new data; and integrate these into global observing systems and modeling activities.

California Space Institute
The California Space Institute (CalSpace) is a multi-campus research unit (MRU) of the University of California. It strives for excellence in research and education in aerospace-related sciences, engineering and technology.

Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
The Cecil H. and Ida M. Green branch of the University of California Systemwide Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) is located in La Jolla, and is strongly linked to Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) through joint faculty appointments, research interests, and shared facilities. IGPP research in La Jolla covers many fields, including global seismology, marine seismology and geodesy, geodynamics, high frequency seismology and arrays, geomagnetism, nonlinear dynamics, sea floor electromagnetic sounding, geodesy including satellite geodesy, information technology, geophysical fluid dynamics, seagoing experiments, geophysical inverse methods, acoustical oceanography, marine acoustics, planetary physics, and physical oceanography.

Centennial Site
A leader and innovator in oceanography and marine technology for 100 years, Scripps Institution of Oceanography is dedicating its centennial celebration to communicating the importance of ocean science to the global community and to reaching out to friends and colleagues around the world.

Center for Atmospheric Sciences
CAS conducts fundamental investigations of the atmosphere related to climate and climate change.

Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation
The center works to assess the state of marine ecosystems and develop predictive models that help formulate appropriate strategies to prevent and reverse loss of marine biodiversity. CMBC trains new marine scientists capable of linking biological physical, social and informatic sciences who can communicate scientific issues in a manner that will increase public understanding and sound policy decisions.

Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine
Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine (CMBB) is a campuswide UCSD research division dedicated to the exploration of the novel and diverse resources of the ocean. Research programs focus on marine biomedicine and marine drug discovery, with an emphasis on cancer and both infectious and inflammatory diseases. CMBB scientists investigate a wide range of biotechnologies, from the special properties of deep-sea marine microbes to the genetic engineering of commercially viable marine animals.

Center for Observations, Modeling and Prediction at Scripps
The Center for Observations, Modeling and Prediction at Scripps (COMPAS), is intended to help lead the institution into the future of ocean research. The initial effort is focussed upon physical processes and phenomena in the ocean and the atmosphere.

Climate Research Division (CRD)
In the Climate Research Division (CRD), scientists study a broad range of phenomena. Research themes include predicting the natural variability of climate and understanding the consequences of man made increases in the greenhouse effect. Climate change caused by human actions is the paradigm that illustrates why traditional disciplinary barriers in the earth sciences are rapidly weakening. In the climate system, the atmosphere, the seas, the land surface, and the world of living things are tightly coupled. To understand these interactions, a variety of expertise must be brought to bear through a team approach to research.

Coastal Data Information Program
CDIP measures, analyzes, archives and disseminates coastal environment data for use by coastal engineers, planner and managers as well as scientists and mariners.

Committee for Humanity and Public Service (CHiPS)
Scripps CHiPS (Committee for Humanity and Public Service) is a volunteer organization that facilitates community service by UCSD graduate students, staff, faculty and friends. As of January 2003, CHiPS volunteers have produced over 3000 person-hours of work in over 70 public service projects - join us on our next outing!

Development
THE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) is responsible for developing private support from individuals, corporations, and foundations for research and education programs at SIO.

Earthguide
Earth, marine, and environmental science resources for teachers and students featuring Scripps scientists.

Explorations Magazine
Global Discoveries for Tomorrow's World Join adventures in science with Explorations, a quarterly magazine and video series featuring the educational and research programs at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Geosciences Research Division
The Geosciences Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography is a multi-disciplinary group specializing in many aspects of geoscience research.

Geowall Visualization System
The Geowall is a low-cost visualization system - essentially it is just a desktop PC (running Mac, Linux, or Windows flavor operating system) with a fast graphics card, two digital projectors, and a projector screen. The dual projectors superimpose an image on top of one another creating a passive stereo (or 3D) image, which can be observed by wearing cheap 3D stereo glasses. With the advent of newer, faster graphics cards, it is now possible to view quad-buffered stereo images and movies.

Graduate Department
A graduate department of the University of California at San Diego, Scripps is one of the oldest and largest centers for global science research and graduate training in the world.

Hydrogeology and Tectonics Studies Laboratory
The Hydrogeology and Tectonics Studies Laboratory, under the direction of Dr. Kevin M. Brown, focuses on the role of fluids in active tectonic systems, primarily at plate boundary zones. Much of our work involves the development of novel experimental systems and instrumentation.

Inframatics.org
The new inframatics organization provides information about the use of sub audible sound waves in the atmosphere for studying natural atmospheric phenomena and monitoring anthropogenic sound sources including clandestine nuclear tests. The main product of this organization's website is a quarterly newsletter that includes articles summarizing ground breaking research in low-frequency atmospheric acoustics.

Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics
The Cecil H. and Ida M. Green branch of the University of California Systemwide Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) is located in La Jolla, and is strongly linked to Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) through joint faculty appointments, research interests, and shared facilities. IGPP research in La Jolla covers many fields, including global seismology, marine seismology and geodesy, geodynamics, high frequency seismology and arrays, geomagnetism, nonlinear dynamics, sea floor electromagnetic sounding, geodesy including satellite geodesy, information technology, geophysical fluid dynamics, seagoing experiments, geophysical inverse methods, acoustical oceanography, marine acoustics, planetary physics, and physical oceanography.

Integrative Oceanography Division (IOD)
The Integrative Oceanography Division (IOD) is the result of the merger of the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) and the Marine Life Research Group (MLRG).

Jeff Severinghaus web page
Web page describes research interests, publications, students and postdocs, and current projects.

Joint Center for Observational Systems Science
UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Goddard Space Flight Center at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have formed a new collaborative center for observing the earth, oceans and atmosphere. Called the Joint Center for Observation System Science (JCOSS), the teaming arrangement brings together complementary expertise of the two resources in developing, deploying and analyzing sea, land and air-based measurements, and remotely-sensed observations from satellites to better understand the earth systems.

Laboratory for Atmospheric Acoustics
The Laboratory for Atmospheric Acoustics (L2A) has been established at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at the University of California, San Diego. Researchers at the lab are interested in acoustic source phenomenology, the propagation of sound through our turbulent atmosphere and the clear reception of sound waves despite variable, and often high levels of atmospheric noise. Although research at the lab has focused on the use of sub audible sound to monitor the atmosphere for nuclear testing activity, researchers at L2A anticipate further research involving man-made and natural phenomena at frequencies spanning the full acoustic spectrum.

Marine Biology Research Division MBRD
The Marine Biology Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography consists of specialist marine research laboratories in the fields of cell and developmental biology, ecology and evolutionary biology, microbiology and physiology.

Marine Mammal Acoustics
Marine mammal acoustic research activities including a library of marine mammal sounds.

Marine Physical Laboratory
The Marine Physical Laboratory consists of individual research groups headed by Principal Investigators with a common interest in Observational Ocean Science with emphasis on developing state-of-the-art instrumentation for studying ocean acoustic and seismic propagation, air-sea interaction, ocean volume dynamics and ocean bottom geophysics.

Nierenberg Hall Business Office
Our fund managers, pre-award coordinators, management and student staff will be the support hub of the research efforts of over 50 Principle Investigators and faculty in the following four divisions of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Physical Oceanography Research Division (PORD), Climate Research Division (CRD), Center for Atmospheric Science (CAS), and the California Space Institute (CSI).

Physical Oceanography Research Division
Scientists in the Physical Oceanography Research Division (PORD) investigate the physics of the ocean. Researchers study the large-scale circulation of the world's oceans or the specifics of smaller environments such as the continental shelf, marginal seas, straits, estuaries, or the surf zone of open shorelines. Others examine the interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere and the role of the ocean in the global climate system. Theoretical studies range from classical fluid dynamics problems to models of large-scale ocean circulation or the atmospheric marine boundary layer.

Research Activities Database
This database contains an overview of current research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Scripps researchers are listed by title and department affiliation. E-mail and Web site address are included, if available.

Satellite Geodesy
The Satellite Geodesy research group at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego studies data collected by radar altimetry and synthetic aperture radar and applies it to geophysical problems.

Scripps Community Outreach Program for Education
SCOPE is an organization for Scripps graduate students and staff interested in science education outreach. Activities include informing science curricula and taking on roles as mentors, special speakers, and partner teachers.

Scripps Home
Scripps Institution of Oceanography today is world renowned for its preeminence in scientific disciplines relating to biology, physics, chemistry, climatology, geosciences, and geophysics.

Scripps News
The latest news at Scripps.

Scripps Oceanographic Society
The Scripps Oceanographic Society (SOS) offers an array of benefits and activities to its members.

Sea Grant College Program
California Sea Grant College Program is the largest of the 30 Sea Grant programs and draws on the talents of scientists and engineers at public and private universities throughout the state. Through the research it sponsors, the Program contributes to the growing body of knowledge about coastal and marine resources and helps solve contemporary marine-related problems.

Ship Operations & Marine Technical Support
Ship schedules, ship descriptions, and support offered by SOMTS.

SIO Library
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library

Smith Lab
The Smith Lab specializes in deep-sea and antarctic biology, as well as oceanographic instrument development to address important research questions in these regions. This web site is designed to introduce you to the poeple and activities of the lab.

Stramski Laboratory for Ocean Optics Research
Ocean optics research at this laboratory is focused on the development of an understanding of interactions of light with sea water, variability in ocean optical properties, and propagation of light within the ocean. This includes studies of light absorption and scattering by marine particles, field measurements of ocean optical properties and light field characteristics, modeling efforts in the areas of particle optics and radiative transfer in the ocean, as well as applications of optics to satellite remote sensing of the world oceans, dynamics of ocean carbon reservoirs, and monitoring of coastal marine environments.

Unified Laboratory Facility
Elemental (CHN) Analyzer, Environ. Scanning, Electron Microscope, ICP - Mass Spectrometer, ICP - Optical Emission Spectrometer, X-Ray Diffractometer

Vacquier Laboratory
The website of Victor Vacquier's research group. Our primary interests are the biochemistry of sperm-egg interactions in sea urchins and abalone, and the mechanism of invertebrate immune defenses.

Visualization Center
The Visualization Center at the Cecil and Ida Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego is a state-of-the-art visualization tool for presenting, and manipulating very large datasets. The center employs a wide range of hardware and software to give the user a totally immersive working environment in which to display, analyze, and discuss large datasets.