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Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice.

Professors

Octavio M. Aburto Oropeza, PhD, Marine Biology

Matthew Alford, PhD, Physical Oceanography

Andrew E. Allen, PhD, Biogeochemistry

Eric E. Allen, PhD, Marine Biology

Lihini Aluwihare, PhD, Geochemistry

Andreas Andersson, PhD, Chemical Oceanography

Laurence Armi, PhD, Oceanography

Katherine Barbeau, PhD, Biogeochemistry

Douglas H. Bartlett, PhD, Marine Microbiology

Simone Baumann-Pickering, PhD, Biological Oceanography

Adrian A. Borsa, PhD, Geophysics

Michael J. Buckingham, PhD, Oceanography

Ronald S. Burton, PhD, Marine Biology

Paola Cessi, PhD, Oceanography

Christopher D. Charles, PhD, Oceanography

Catherine G. Constable, PhD, Geophysics

Steven C. Constable, PhD, Geophysics

James M.D. Day, PhD, Geology and Geochemistry

Andrew G. Dickson, PhD, Marine Chemistry

Neal W. Driscoll, PhD, Geology

Ian Eisenman, PhD, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Amato Evan, PhD, Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences

Falk Feddersen, PhD, Physical Oceanography

Yuri Fialko, PhD, Geophysics

Peter J.S. Franks, PhD, Oceanography, Chair

Helen Fricker, PhD, Glaciology

Terry Gaasterland, PhD, Computational Genomics

Jeffrey S. Gee, PhD, Geophysics

William H. Gerwick, PhD, Marine Chemistry

Carl H. Gibson, PhD, Engineering Physics and Oceanography

Jack A. Gilbert, PhD, Molecular Microbiology

Sarah T. Gille, PhD, Oceanography

Vicki H. Grassian, PhD, Atmospheric Aerosols and Chemistry

Jennifer S. Haase, PhD, Geoscience and Atmospheric Sciences

Amro Hamdoun, PhD, Physiology

Ryan F. Hechinger, PhD, Parasitology

Myrl C. Hendershott, PhD, Oceanography

John A. Hildebrand, PhD, Geophysics

Paul Jensen, PhD, Research Microbiologist

Ralph F. Keeling, PhD, Geochemistry

M. Gabriele Laske, PhD, Geophysics

James J. Leichter, PhD, Oceanography

Ying-Tsong Lin, PhD, Ocean Engineering (Acting)

Stefan G. Llewellyn Smith, PhD, Applied Mathematics

Jennifer A. MacKinnon, PhD, Oceanography

Todd R. Martz, PhD, Analytical Chemistry

Mark Merrifield, PhD, Climate and Atmospheric Sciences

Bradley S. Moore, PhD, Marine Biochemistry

Joel R. Norris, PhD, Climate and Atmospheric Sciences

Richard D. Norris, PhD, Paleobiology

Brian Palenik, PhD, Marine Biology

Eugene Pawlak, PhD, Oceanography

Kimberly A. Prather, PhD, Atmospheric Chemistry

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, PhD, Climate and Atmospheric Sciences

Gregory Rouse, PhD, Zoology

Daniel L. Rudnick, PhD, Oceanography

Lynn M. Russell, PhD, Atmospheric Chemistry

Stuart A. Sandin, PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

David T. Sandwell, PhD, Geophysics

Brice Semmens, PhD, Zoology

Uwe Send, PhD, Oceanography

Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, PhD, Geochemistry

Peter M. Shearer, PhD, Geophysics

Jennifer E. Smith, PhD, Botany and Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology

David Stegman, PhD, Geophysics

Dariusz Stramski, PhD, Oceanography

Fiammetta Straneo, PhD, Climate Science

George Sugihara, PhD, Mathematical Ecology

Lynne D. Talley, PhD, Oceanography

Martin Tresguerres, PhD, Biology

Bradley T. Werner, PhD, Oceanography

Shang-Ping Xie, PhD, Meteorology

William R. Young, PhD, Oceanography

Professors Emeriti

Duncan C. Agnew, PhD, Geophysics

Farooq Azam, PhD, Marine Biology

Jeffrey L. Bada, PhD, Marine Chemistry

Kevin M. Brown, PhD, Geology

Steven C. Cande, PhD, Marine Geophysics

George Carnevale, PhD, Research Oceanographer

Paterno R. Castillo, PhD, Geology

David M. Checkley, PhD, Oceanography

Paul J. Crutzen, PhD, Atmospheric Chemistry

Joseph R. Curray, PhD, Geology

Russ Davis, PhD, Research Oceanographer

Paul K. Dayton, PhD, Oceanography

LeRoy M. Dorman, PhD, Geophysics

Horst Felbeck, Dr. rer. nat., Marine Biology

William H. Fenical, PhD, Chemistry

Joris M.T.M. Gieskes, PhD, Oceanography

Robert T. Guza, PhD, Oceanography

Philip A. Hastings, PhD, Marine Biology

William S. Hodgkiss, PhD, Electrical Engineering

Linda Holland, PhD, Marine Biology

Nicholas D. Holland, PhD, Marine Biology

Jeremy B.C. Jackson, PhD, Marine Biology and Geology

Miriam Kastner, PhD, Earth Sciences

Charles F. Kennel, PhD, Physics

Gerald L. Kooyman, PhD, Biology

William A. Kuperman, PhD, Oceanography

Michael R. Landry, PhD, Oceanography

Michael I. Latz, PhD, Research Biologist

Lisa A. Levin, PhD, Oceanography

Peter F. Lonsdale, PhD, Oceanography

T. Guy Masters, PhD, Geophysics

John A. McGowan, PhD, Oceanography

Jean-Bernard H. Minster, PhD, Geophysics

B. Gregory Mitchell, PhD, Research Oceanographer

Mark D. Ohman, PhD, Biological Oceanography

John A. Orcutt, PhD, Geophysics

Robert Pinkel, PhD, Oceanography

Dean H. Roemmich, PhD, Oceanography

Richard L. Salmon, PhD, Oceanography

John G. Sclater, PhD, Marine Geophysics

Richard C.J. Somerville, PhD, Meteorology

Hubert Staudigel, PhD, Research Geologist

Lisa Tauxe, PhD, Geophysics

Maria Vernet, PhD, Research Oceanographer

Ray F. Weiss, PhD, Geochemistry

Peter F. Worcester, PhD, Research Oceanographer

Associate Professors

Andrew D. Barton, PhD, Biological Oceanography

Tarik Benmarhnia, PhD, Climate Change and Health

Ricardo Betancur, PhD, Biology

Jeff S. Bowman, PhD, Polar Ecology

Emily J. Chin, PhD, Geology

Carolyn Anela Choy, PhD, Oceanography

Jade D’Alpoim Guedes, PhD, Geology

Julia Diaz, PhD, Biogeochemistry

Wenyuan Fan, PhD, Geophysics

Alice Gabriel, PhD, Geophysics

Sarah N. Giddings, PhD, Oceanography

David May, PhD, Geophysics

Matthias Morzfeld, PhD, Geophysics

Ross Parnell-Turner, PhD, Geology

Isabel C. Rivera-Collazo, PhD, Geoarchaeology

Amina Schartup, PhD, Biogeochemistry

Jennifer Taylor, PhD, Biology

Assistant Professors

Sarah Aarons, PhD, Geology

Dahiana Arcila, PhD, Marine Biology

Tomas Capaldi, PhD, Geosciences

Moira Décima, PhD, Biogeochemistry

Xuanting Hao, PhD, Mechanical Engineering

Morgan Levy, PhD, Climate Sciences

Andrew J. Lucas, PhD, Oceanography

April Lukowski, PhD, Marine Biology

Nicholas Lutsko, PhD, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Deirdre C. Lyons, PhD, Marine Biology

Margo Odlum, PhD, Geosciences

Florian Meyer, PhD, Oceanography

Colleen Petrik, PhD, Biological Oceanography

Sarah M. Purkey, PhD, Physical Oceanography

Katharine L. Ricke, PhD, Climate Sciences

Lia Siegelman, PhD, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Duncan Watson-Parris, PhD, Physics

Vashan Wright, Geophysics

Adjunct Professors

Frederick Archer, PhD, Marine Biology

Lisa T. Ballance, PhD, Biological Oceanography

Konstantine P. Georgakakos, ScD, Hydrology

Sarah Mesnick, PhD, Marine Biology

Tadeusz F. Molinski, PhD, Organic Chemistry

Anne A. Pommier, PhD, Geology

David Victor, PhD, Global Policy and Strategy

Teaching Professors

Janet Becker, PhD

Geoffrey W. Cook, PhD

Assistant Teaching Professor

David Kacev, PhD

Senior Lecturers

Donna K. Blackman, PhD, Research Geophysicist

Yehuda Bock, PhD, Research Geodesist

Daniel R. Cayan, PhD, Research Meteorologist

Luca Centurioni, PhD, Researcher

C. David Chadwell, PhD, Research Geophysicist

Teresa K. Chereskin, PhD, Research Oceanographer

Bruce D. Cornuelle, PhD, Research Oceanographer

Gerald L. D’Spain, PhD, Research Scientist

Grant B. Deane, PhD, Research Oceanographer

Peter Gerstoft, PhD, Research Scientist

Alistair J. Harding, PhD, Research Geophysicist

Michael A.H. Hedlin, PhD, Research Geophysicist

Jules S. Jaffe, PhD, Research Oceanographer

Dan Lubin, PhD, Research Physicist

Julie McClean, PhD, Researcher

Arthur J. Miller, PhD, Research Oceanographer

Paul Ponganis, MD, PhD, Research Marine Biologist and Marine Physiologist

Greg Roberts, PhD, Researcher

Jerome A. Smith, PhD, Research Oceanographer

Hee Chun Song, PhD, Research Marine Physicist

Janet Sprintall, PhD, Research Oceanographer

M. Dale Stokes, PhD, Research Oceanographer

James H. Swift, PhD, Research Oceanographer

Aaron Thode, PhD, Research Scientist

Frank L. Vernon, PhD, Research Geophysicist

Kraig Winters, PhD, Research Oceanographer

Guang Zhang, PhD, Research Meteorologist

Mark A. Zumberge, PhD, Research Geophysicist

Lecturers

Bianca M. Brahamsha, PhD, Researcher, RTAD

Peter Bromirski, PhD, Research Oceanographer

Dimitri Deheyn, PhD, Associate Researcher

Peter Dutton, PhD, Researcher

Kaitlin Frasier, PhD, Assistant Researcher

Alexander Gershunov, Research Meteorologist

Lena Gerwick, PhD, Associate Research Scientist

Jamin Greenbaum, PhD, Assistant Researcher

Verena Hormann, PhD, Associate Researcher

Shaun Johnston, PhD, Associate Researcher

Linda Kelly, PhD, Assistant Researcher

Luc Lenain, PhD, Associate Researcher

Matthew Mazloff, PhD, Associate Researcher

Sophia Merrifield, PhD, Assistant Researcher

P. Edward Parnell, PhD, Associate Research Oceanographer

Eric Terrill, PhD, Director, CORDC

Amy Waterhouse, PhD, Associate Researcher

Lisa Zeigler, PhD, Assistant Researcher

Nathalie Zilberman, PhD, Assistant Researcher

Affiliated Faculty

Juan C. Lasheras, PhD, Professor, MAE

Paul A. Libby, PhD, Professor Emeritus, MAE

Paul F. Linden, PhD, Professor, MAE

R. Glenn Northcutt, PhD, Professor, Neurosciences

Sutanu Sarkar, PhD, Professor, MAE