UCSD has a broad ranging program in analytical, environmental, and atmospheric chemistry with a strong international reputation due to its unique combination of faculty.  The graduate program at UCSD is highly interdisciplinary with graduate students in Chemistry having strong interactions with those at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and many other departments.

In addition to two Nobel Prize winners in Atmospheric Chemistry (M. Molina and Crutzen, 1995), UCSD has a unique combination of faculty working in a wide range of areas:

Research areas include aerosol characterization in laboratory and field studies, heterogeneous chemistry, climate change, atmospheric modeling, environmental and remote sensing, the impact of ocean chemistry on the atmosphere (air-sea exchange), environmental policy (Mexico City project, Atmospheric Brown Cloud), air pollution, and many other environmental areas.