Hydroacoustic signals captured by the world’s international nuclear monitoring system suggest an underwater landslide may ...

Studying the tectonic forces within the Earth give rise to continents, ocean basins, mountain ranges, earthquake belts, and most volcanoes, along with the resulting deformation of geological ...

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

Measuring the movement of defined points on the earth's surface to better understand the stresses and strains affecting the crust and upper mantle.

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 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 ...

A team of scientists has created a new guide to advance standards for collecting and cataloging DNA from marine species, ...

A new paper from an international team of more than 50 researchers, including four from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, proposes the creation of a global observing network of ...

What happens if you take a handful of biological oceanographers, a helping of marine biologists, one seabird expert, add in a ...