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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, Department Chair

Lihini Aluwihare, PhD, Geochemistry

Andreas Andersson, PhD, Chemical Oceanography

Laurence Armi, PhD, Oceanography

Katherine Barbeau, PhD, Biogeochemistry

Simone Baumann-Pickering, PhD, Biological Oceanography

Adrian A. Borsa, PhD, Geophysics

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

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

Helen Fricker, PhD, Glaciology

Terry Gaasterland, PhD, Computational Genomics

William H. Gerwick, PhD, Marine Chemistry

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

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

Isabel C. Rivera-Collazo, PhD, Geoarchaeology

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

Peter M. Shearer, PhD, Geophysics

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

David Stegman, PhD, Geophysics

Dariusz Stramski, PhD, Oceanography

George Sugihara, PhD, Mathematical Ecology

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

Douglas H. Bartlett, PhD, Marine Microbiology

Kevin M. Brown, PhD, Geology

Michael J. Buckingham, PhD, Oceanography

Ronald S. Burton, PhD, Marine Biology

Steven C. Cande, PhD, Marine Geophysics

George Carnevale, PhD, Research Oceanographer

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

Andrew G. Dickson, PhD, Marine Chemistry

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

William H. Fenical, PhD, Chemistry

Peter J.S. Franks, PhD, Oceanography

Jeffrey S. Gee, PhD, Geophysics

Carl H. Gibson, PhD, Engineering Physics and Oceanography

Robert T. Guza, PhD, Oceanography

Philip A. Hastings, PhD, Marine Biology

Myrl C. Hendershott, PhD, Oceanography

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

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

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, PhD, Climate and Atmospheric Sciences

Dean H. Roemmich, PhD, Oceanography

Richard L. Salmon, PhD, Oceanography

John G. Sclater, PhD, Marine Geophysics

Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, PhD, Geochemistry

Richard C.J. Somerville, PhD, Meteorology

Hubert Staudigel, PhD, Research Geologist

Lynne D. Talley, PhD, Oceanography

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

Ricard Betancur, PhD, Biology

Jeff S. Bowman, PhD, Polar Ecology

Emily J. Chin, PhD, Geology

Carolyn Anela Choy, PhD, Oceanography

Moira Décima, PhD, Biogeochemistry

Julia Diaz, PhD, Biogeochemistry
Wenyuan Fan, PhD, Geophysics

Alice Gabriel, PhD, Geophysics
Sarah N. Giddings, PhD, Oceanography

Andrew J. Lucas, PhD, Oceanography

Deirdre C. Lyons, PhD, Marine Biology

Dave May, PhD, Geophysics

Florian Meyer, PhD, Oceanography

Matthias Morzfeld, PhD, Geophysics

Ross Parnell-Turner, PhD, Geology

Sarah M. Purkey, PhD, Physical Oceanography

Katharine L. Ricke, PhD, Climate Sciences

Amina Schartup, PhD, Biogeochemistry

Jennifer Taylor, PhD, Biology

Assistant Professors

Sarah Aarons, PhD, Geology

Dahiana Arcila, PhD, Marine Biology

Tomas Capaldi, PhD, Geosciences

Valentina Di Santo, PhD, Marine Biology

Xuanting Hao, PhD, Mechanical Engineering

Morgan Levy, PhD, Climate Sciences

April Lukowski, PhD, Marine Biology

Nicholas Lutsko, PhD, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Margot Odlum, PhD, Geosciences

Colleen Petrik, PhD, Biological Oceanography

Lia Siegelman, PhD, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Duncan Watson-Parris, PhD, Physics

Vashan Wright, Geophysics

Adjunct Professors

Frederick Archer, PhD, Marine Biology

Konstantine P. Georgakakos, ScD, Hydrology

Sarah Mesnick, PhD, Marine Biology

Tadeusz F. Molinski, PhD, Organic Chemistry

Fiammetta Straneo, PhD, Climate Science

David Victor, PhD, Global Policy and Strategy

Teaching Professors

Janet Becker, PhD

Geoffrey W. Cook, PhD

Assistant Teaching Professors

Elizabeth Hetherington, PhD

David Kacev, PhD

Lauren Shipp, PhD

Senior Lecturers

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, Associate Researcher

Alexander Gershunov, Research Meteorologist

Lena Gerwick, PhD, Associate Research Scientist

Jamin Greenbaum, PhD, Assistant Researcher

Verena Hormann, PhD, Associate Researcher

Shaun Johnston, PhD, Researcher

Linda Kelly, PhD, Assistant Researcher

Luc Lenain, PhD, Associate Researcher

Matthew Mazloff, PhD, Researcher

Sophia Merrifield, PhD, Assistant Researcher

P. Edward Parnell, PhD, Associate Research Oceanographer

Eric Terrill, PhD, Director, CORDC

Amy Waterhouse, PhD, Researcher

Lisa Zeigler, PhD, Assistant Researcher

Nathalie Zilberman, PhD, Associate Researcher

Affiliated Faculty

Paul F. Linden, PhD, Professor, MAE

R. Glenn Northcutt, PhD, Professor, Neurosciences

Sutanu Sarkar, PhD, Professor, MAE