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Fish for Dinner – With a Side of Awareness
Upcoming celebration highlights sustainable seafood leadership
Researchers Identify Natural Products with Potential Efficacy Against Coronavirus, Ebola, and Other Lethal Viruses
Review of the life histories of RNA viruses and the compounds that could disrupt them offers hope for curtailment of future pandemics
Surveys Identify Relationship between Waves, Coastal Cliff Erosion
Study shows waves, rainfall important parts of erosion process, providing new opportunity to improve forecasts
Scripps Student Spotlight: Camille Pagniello
Graduate student researches marine life through an array of sensory monitoring systems to decode ocean properties
UC San Diego Receives 7 DURIP Awards from Department of Defense
University tops UC system in number of awards
New Study Redefines Understanding of Where Icebergs Put Meltwater into the Southern Ocean
The findings pave the way for large Antarctic icebergs to be used in global climate models
Midlife Refit of Research Vessel Roger Revelle Completed
Upgrades improve scientific capabilities and extend life of one of the most capable ships in U.S. academic fleet
New Study Helps Pinpoint When Earth’s Plate Subduction Began
Several billion-year-old rocks tell the story of the planet’s transition from alien landscape to one of continents, oceans, and ultimately life
Is Arctic Warming Behind a Monster Saharan Dust Storm?
A June 2020 event set a record for size of a dust mass sent across the Atlantic
Scripps Geophysicist Peter Shearer Awarded AGU’s Inge Lehmann Medal
American Geophysical Union recognizes contribution to the understanding of earthquakes
Scientists Call for Decade of Concerted Effort to Enhance Understanding of the Deep Seas
Decade of Ocean Science offers opportunity for discovery
Scripps Student Spotlight: Doug Sweeney
Graduate student is researching how marine bacteria produce antibacterial and anticancer compounds
Five UC San Diego Experts Elected AAAS Fellows in 2020
Scripps Oceanography's David Sandwell among those recognized by American Association for the Advancement of Science
Celebrating Native American Excellence at Scripps
Researchers describe the importance of Indigenous representation in science
StartBlue Program Receives Funding to Boost Ocean-Focused Startups
Accelerator program set to launch Fall 2021 at UC San Diego thanks to a grant by the Economic Development Administration and philanthropic supporters
What Makes an Earthquake a Star?
Scripps Oceanography geophysicist considers what makes some quakes celebrities
A Scientist's Life: Adam Young
Coastal morphologist assesses erosion risk with drone-based lasers, photogrammetry, and buried sensors
Scripps Student Spotlight: Jeramy Dedrick
Climate sciences PhD student studies the physical and chemical processes affecting low cloud formation in marine environments
Eyes on Wildfires
ALERTWildfire camera network reaches 610-camera milestone during season of record fires
Scripps-Rady Ocean Plastic Pollution Challenge
Applications open for solution-based course to tackle marine pollution
NSF Grants $53 Million to Create a Global Fleet of Robotic Floats to Monitor Ocean Health
New grant will support a consortium of research institutions, including Scripps Oceanography, to build a global array of robotic floats with biogeochemical sensors
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