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Nancy Arthur-McGehee’s glasswork on display at the San Diego International Airport features etchings of marine life and birds.

A Marriage of Science and Art

Experience a Full-Moon Walk on Scripps Pier

Research Highlight: Cold Hard Truth

Scripps Oceanography is one of about two dozen San Diego businesses at BizTown where students “work” for a day.

An Educational Playhouse

Research Highlight: Heading Due South

Earth’s magnetic field protects us from charged particles from the sun. Credit: NASA

Voyager: What predictions are scientists making about changes to Earth's environment if the magnetic poles reverse?

Renowned Physicist and Inventor of Wetsuit Dies at 92

Research Highlight: Choking Oceans

The Snow Bunting lives in the Arctic and uses Earth’s magnetic field to migrate further south to northern temperate areas.

Voyager: What will happen to animals, like migratory birds, that depend on the current magnetic field?

Tony Haymet Selected as New Member of the Consortium of Ocean Leadership Board of Trustees

Scripps Professor Named 2008 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow

Scripps Professor Named 2008 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow

Obituary Notice Renowned Physicist and Inventor of Wetsuit: Hugh Bradner

Unmanned Aircraft to Study Southern California Smog and its Consequences

Unmanned Aircraft to Study Southern California Smog and its Consequences

Scripps Oceanography Research Pegs ID of Red Tide Killer

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?

Scripps Geology Professor Neal Driscoll (right) and graduate student Danny Brothers

Scripps Oceanography's Geophysics and Seismology Program Receives High Marks

Research Highlight: The Beach of the Future

Research Highlight: CAPPS takes off

Three Scripps students took advantage of UC Ship Funds.

A Learning Experience

Research Highlight: A New Kind of Sea Map

Voyager: What new technologies are you using to study sand, and why are they better?

A family takes in the spectacle of an April 7 grunion run at Scripps Beach.

Grunion Fun

Research Highlight: Probing Mars for Life

Oxygen Depletion: A New Form of Ocean Habitat Loss

Oxygen Depletion: A New Form of Ocean Habitat Loss

Life-Probing Instrument Preparing for Mission to Mars

Scientists Reveal Presence of Ocean Current "Stripes"

Scientists Reveal Presence of Ocean Current "Stripes"

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