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A Scientist's Life: Miriam Kastner

Pioneering geochemist on a career spent breaking through seafloor and breaking through in a male-dominated field

New seafloor map

New Map Exposes Previously Unseen Details of Seafloor

Mysteries of the deep come alive as satellite data bring thousands of uncharted sea mountains and new clues about deep ocean structures into focus

China air pollution drifts out to sea

Voyager: Why is China's Pollution Considered the "World's Pollution"?

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Next Generation of Ocean Science Explorers Fostered by Scripps/Ocean Discovery Program

Local school-based program brings hands-on ocean science education to underserved students in San Diego

A group of people board RP FLIP

Around the Pier: All Aboard FLIP!

Group of engineering students enjoy rare opportunity to spend weekend onboard FLIP

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A Scientist's Life: Falk Feddersen

Falk Feddersen researches the implications of sea-level rise on our beaches

Video: The Birch Aquarium at Scripps Kelp Tank is Back!

Mooring equipment for OOI

Ocean Observatories Initiative Deploys First Global Site

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New Center Targets Ocean Contaminants and Human Health

Scripps scientists lead two separate projects to track potentially toxic chemicals in marine life and their impacts on human health

Three mariners in safety vests and hard hats prepare to deploy an electromagnetic instrument.

Scripps Scientists Image Deep Magma beneath Pacific Seafloor Volcano

Why is the ocean blue

Voyager: Why is the ocean blue?

Voyager: How much of the earth is truly undiscovered, above and/or below water?

World's Largest Oceanography Library Goes Digital

World's Largest Oceanography Library Goes Digital

Debris collected from SEAPLEX cruise to survey Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 2008

SEAPLEX: Scripps Research Cruise

SEAPLEX will explore the North Pacific Ocean Gyre aboard the Scripps research vessel New Horizon

Journey to the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch

Waves move sand along the shore and up and down beaches.

Voyager: Why does sand move and how does it get from place to place?

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Human Safety, Prosperity Depend on Better Ocean Observing System: Scientists

Janet Sprintall (fourth from left, standing) and female researchers aboard a 2007 cruise to the Bay of Bengal aboard R/V Roger Revelle

Research Highlight: A Break from the Past

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Two Milestones for Argo Ocean 'Robots' Achieved: Global Array 2/3 Complete, 55,000th Profile Near

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Researchers Discover Underwater Volcano

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explorations Volume 10, Number 3, Winter 2004 Video Edition

Endangered Oceans

Scripps campus/Coastal Meander

Researchers Launch New Coastal Science Study

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explorations Volume 10, Number 2, Fall 2003

An image of a modern building and university campus near the ocean.

explorations Volume 10, Number 1, Summer 2003

Scripps Centennial Issue

explorations Volume 9, Number 4, Spring 2003

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