Mark Merrifield


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Professor


Research Interests

    • Climate Change
    • Coastal Oceanography
    • Surface and Internal Waves
    • Sea Level Variability

Mark Merrifield has spent the past two decades studying global and regional sea-level change. A Scripps alumnus, Merrifield returned to campus from a 20-year stint as director of the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center to direct the Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation. Merrifield's research areas include sea-level rise and climate variability, coastal oceanography, and nearshore processes. He has a longstanding interest in linking basic and applied research outcomes to practical solutions for societal benefit.



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Education


  • PhD,  Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, 1989
  • AB, Physics, UC Berkeley, 1982

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