Requests to add the Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences major will go through the major/minor tool and require approval by a department advisor. Students admitted to UC San Diego as first-year applicants ...

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 ...

Chemical oceanography examines the distributions, sources, transformations and cycling of chemical species in the marine environment. It encompasses the study of major ions that determine salinity, ...

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 ...

With issues such as climate change, declining fisheries, eroding coastlines and the development of new drugs from marine resources being at the forefront, there is an enormous demand for professionals ...

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 ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego were able to "hear" the impacts of a marine heat wave and even economic slowdowns by analyzing 15 years of ...