Faculty

Last Name Initial:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

  • SALA, ENRIC - Adjunct Professor
    •  Marine conservation
    •  Ecology of coastal ecosystems
    •  Food webs
    •  Restoration ecology
  • SALMON, RICHARD - Professor
    •  Theory of the ocean's general circulation
    •  Geophysical fluid dynamics
  • SANDWELL, DAVID - Professor
    •  Geodynamics
    •  Satellite Remote Sensing and Geodesy
    •  Charting the Remote Ocean Basins
  • SCLATER, JOHN - Professor
    •  Tectonic History of the Southwest Indian Ridge with emphasis on the Andrew Bain Mega-transform Fault.
    •  Thermal models of old ocean floor
    •  History of science
    •  Heat flow and subsidence of the continental margins of the Gulf of California
  • SEND, UWE - Professor
    •  Thermohaline circulation (Atlantic MOC, Mediterranean)
    •  Water mass formation and effects
    •  Boundary current observations
    •  Coastal circulation and processes
    •  Ocean-climate interaction, CO2 uptake, acidification
    •  Physical-biogeochemical and ecosystem interactions
    •  Multi-disciplinary timeseries observations
    •  Global and coastal ocean observing systems
    •  Ocean observing techniques
  • SEVERINGHAUS, JEFFREY - Professor
    •  Quantification of abrupt temperature changes using measurements of nitrogen and argon isotopes in ice cores
    •  Mechanisms of millennial-scale climate oscillations and climate bifurcations
    •  Pleistocene global carbon cycle variations deduced from oxygen and noble gas measurements in ice cores
    •  Reconstructing changes in atmospheric noble gas composition over the past million years from air trapped in glacial ice
    •  Radiocarbon of methane in late glacial-age ice as a test of the sedimentary methane clathrate degassing hypothesis.
    •  Isotopic fractionation of air in polar firn (snow) due to gravitational settling and thermal diffusion, with implications for gas age-ice age differences and leads and lags of climate versus greenhouse gases in ice core records
  • SHADWICK, ROBERT - Professor Emeritus
  • SHEARER, PETER - Professor
    •  Structure of Earth's mantle and core
    •  Earthquake properties
    •  Seismicity of southern California
    •  Seismic processing methods
  • SMITH, JENNIFER - Assistant Professor
    •  Coral Reef Ecology
    •  Conservation Biology
    •  Invasion Biology
    •  Phycology
  • SMITH, PAUL - Adjunct Professor
    •  Pelagic Ecology
  • SOMERO, GEORGE - Professor Emeritus
  • SOMERVILLE, RICHARD - Professor Emeritus
    •  Geophysical fluid dynamics
    •  Thermal convection
    •  Computational methods
    •  Predictability
    •  Atmospheric modeling
    •  Numerical weather prediction
    •  Radiative transfer
    •  Cloud physics
    •  Climate
  • STAMMER, DETLEF - Adjunct Professor
    •  Ocean remote sensing
    •  Data assimilation
    •  Ocean modeling
  • STEGMAN, DAVID - Assistant Professor
  • STRAMSKI, DARIUSZ - Professor
    •  Ocean optics
    •  Radiative transfer in the ocean
    •  Particle optics
    •  Ocean optical properties
    •  Light fields within and leaving the ocean
    •  Optics of air-sea interface
    •  Optical remote sensing of marine environments
    •  Biological-optical interactions in the ocean
    •  Ocean carbon stocks and dynamics
    •  Coastal oceanography
    •  Optical methods in oceanography
    •  Monitoring and observational work in the marine environment
  • SUGIHARA, GEORGE - Professor
    •  Developing derivatives markets and by-catch avoidance incentives for fisheries
    •  Systemic risk in the financial sector
    •  Market mechanisms for marine conservation
    •  Complexity theory
    •  Nonlinear dynamics
    •  Landscape ecology
    •  Food-web structure
    •  Species abundance patterns
    •  Conservation biology/biological control
    •  Neuroscience and behavior
    •  Cardiology
    •  Empirical climate modeling
    •  Fisheries forecasting
    •  Quantitative finance