5 PhD programmes in Oceanography in California, United States

Biological Oceanography is concerned with the interactions of populations of marine organisms with one another and with their physical and chemical environment. The Biological Oceanography program is offered by the University of California, San Diego.

Students from the Applied Ocean Science program at the University of California, San Diego perform research in marine acoustics, optics, electromagnetics, geophysics, ecology, sediment transport, coastal processes, physical oceanography, and air-sea interaction.

The Scripps Institute of Oceanography PhD program at the University of California, San Diego is organized into three separate academic programs. 

Physical Oceanography is the field of study that deals with mechanisms of energy transfer through the sea and across its boundaries, and with the physical interactions of the sea with its surroundings, especially including the influence of the seas on the climate of the atmosphere. The Physical Oceanography program is offered by the University of California, San Diego.

The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) offers Ph.D. degrees in the physics, chemistry, and biology of the atmosphere-ocean system.