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Scripps Oceanography Scientists Discover Cause of Weakness in Marine Animal Hybrids

Scripps Oceanography Scientists Discover Cause of Weakness in Marine Animal Hybrids

Homecoming for Melville

CO2 can make the water more acidic, which would impact the ability of organisms like abalone to make carbonate skeletons.

Question: How will sequestered carbon dioxide gas affect ocean life?

Robert Buzzelli (right) with daughter Selena and sister Mary Peirce (left).

$100,000 Bequest from Robert Buzzelli Endows Graduate Student Fellowship

Lack of infrastructure makes many of Africa's farmers directly dependent on rainfall to sustain crops.

'We don't have to watch it happen'

A man and a young girl.

Around the Pier: $100,000 Bequest from Robert Buzzelli Endows Graduate Student Fellowship

Scripps geophysicist and avid surfer David Sandwell

Around the Pier: Surfing to Academic Success

Researchers make adjustments to equipment before deployment.

Buried at Sea

Scripps Research Vessel Melville Returns after Two-and-a-Half Year Voyage

Warming World in Range of Dangerous Consequences

Warming World in Range of Dangerous Consequences

Research Led by Scripps Students Recognized with National, International Honors

Outpacing Climate Change With Atmospheric Research Collaboration

Scripps Oceanography Announces New Program Directors

Scripps Oceanography Announces New Program Directors

Do You Sea What I Sea?

Scripps Honors Recent Grad for Algal Bloom Study

Robotic Invasion

Evolution Revelation

'What is...A Night in the Spotlight?'

The Origins of Slime

The Himalayas, looking south over the Tibetan Plateau.

Continental Re-Org

Artist Wayne Martin Belger lines up a shot with his underwater pinhole camera inside Birch Aquarium’s kelp forest tank.

Peering into the Depths

The Secrets Of Effective Communication

Scripps scientist working at lab bench.

Voyager: Where does slime like the kind found in the Adriatic Sea come from?

Submitted by 4th through 6th grade students participating in Birch Aquarium at Scripps’s Summer Learning Adventures program

The thick mucilage cover represents a danger for sea-bottom communities.

Voyager: How does the unusual slime found in the Adriatic Sea affect animals?

What is... A Night in the Spotlight?

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