In an unprecedented call to action published concurrently across 24 scientific journals, a global team of microbiologists is calling on policymakers, governments and industry to deploy microbe-based ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Tracking the flow of natural and manmade elements through the environment to better understand physical systems.

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

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

Cryosphere and polar science study the frozen water part of the Earth system, ranging from the glaciers of Greenland to the ice sheets of the Antarctic. Antarctica photo by Jack Pan.

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