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Scripps grad student Regina Guazzo and a blue whale

Scripps Student Spotlight: Regina Guazzo

Samples of phytoplankton collected by scientists in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica

Photo of the Week: Life under the Ice

Photo of the Week: Crushed Ice

A robot inspired by eels in a Birch Aquarium at Scripps tank. It is meant to be as non-invasive to natural habitats as possible.

Research Highlight: Transparent Eel-like Soft Robot Can Swim Silently Underwater

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	Scripps Student Spotlight: Regina Guazzo Biological oceanography graduate student uses acoustic technology to study gray whale migration
	Photo of the Week: Life under the Ice Researchers investigate how iceberg calving affects Antarctic marine life
	Photo of the Week: Crushed Ice Collecting glacial ice to study fjord ecosystems in the Southern Ocean
	Research Highlight: Transparent Eel-like Soft Robot Can Swim Silently Underwater Scripps researcher bases optical properties of robot on those of eel larvae
	Video: How Scientists Measure Carbon Dioxide in the Air A 60th anniversary tour of the process behind the Keeling Curve

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Expedition to the Cocos-Nazca Spreading Center

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Herder of Floats

A voyage to the rough waters of the Southern Ocean.

Keeling Curve

Notes related to the daily record of atmospheric carbon dioxide