A coastal research and monitoring program led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been awarded a ...

In an unprecedented call to action published concurrently across 24 scientific journals, a global team of microbiologists is ...

Check back for 2025 opportunities! Applications will likely be due in March 2025. The Research Experience and Mentoring (REM) Program at UCSD recruits 4-6 students (high school or undergraduate) each ...

We use sequence-based approaches, flow cytometry, modeling, and other techniques to explore the structure and function of microbial communities. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, ...

Focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine systems. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral ecosystem research program off the coast of California that ...

The study of the physiology and ecology of animals that don't have backbones, ranging from worms to sea stars, and of parasites, which can often provide insights into complex ecosystems. (Sea star ...

John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave 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 ...

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 ...

Understanding the chemical processes affecting minerals, water, and air at high temperatures and pressures, typically deep below earth's surface. Specializing in high-precision isotopic analyses, ...

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

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 ...