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![Sixth year PhD student Camille Pagniello on a boat in the middle of the ocean](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2021-01/Camille2_1.jpg?itok=zryAEgy9)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Camille Pagniello
Graduate student researches marine life through an array of sensory monitoring systems to decode ocean properties
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Scripps Student Spotlight: Doug Sweeney
Graduate student is researching how marine bacteria produce antibacterial and anticancer compounds
Scripps Student Spotlight: Jeramy Dedrick
Climate sciences PhD student studies the physical and chemical processes affecting low cloud formation in marine environments
![A woman scuba diving underwater](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2020-10/Demko_Fiji2017_3.jpg?itok=cElq3sD5)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Alyssa Demko
PhD student fascinated by chemistry in the natural world pursues research on microbes
![A man on a ship](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2020-09/channing-crop.jpg?itok=sYWUxp5u)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Channing Prend
PhD student seeks answers about the Southern Ocean in order to better understand how it aids the global climate system
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Scripps Student Spotlight: Gabriela Negrete-García
Passionate PhD student pursues research on climate change affecting phytoplankton communities in the Arctic
![Tammy Russell](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2020-08/tammy-russell800x500.jpg?itok=EtmB4hHi)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Tammy Russell
Scripps PhD student studying seabird foraging ecology finds ways to support conservation
![Lauren Kim](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2020-08/kim_lauren.jpg?itok=njBUg-nF)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Lauren Kim
PhD student studying storm waves is determined to help make positive direct impacts on climate change
![Susheel Adusumilli in Antarctica](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2020-08/adusumilli_field.jpg?itok=4hZFB3Up)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Susheel Adusumilli
Geophysics PhD student pursuing research of ice-ocean interactions makes a positive difference with his conversations and projects on climate change
![Vanessa Zobell](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2020-08/zobell.jpg?itok=zYZ4zCzQ)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Vanessa ZoBell
PhD student fascinated by the intelligence and mystery of whales studies ship noise impacts on baleen whales in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
![Maya Becker walking through rocky snowfield.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2020-05/mayabeckerheader_0.jpg?itok=QYp8XN7G)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Maya Becker
Geophysics PhD student fascinated by ice-shelf mass change pursues research in glaciology
![Sawyer Brand](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2020-08/brand_sawyer800x500.jpg?itok=TiSZcAqH)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Sawyer Brand
Scripps undergraduate student fascinated by the dynamic wonders of the ocean and atmosphere delves into research with Argo floats
![Karen Gutierrez](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2020-08/gutierrez_karen_800x500.jpg?itok=7_AjJZ79)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Karen Gutierrez
Scripps graduate student inspired by geosciences, history, and anthropology to pursue research in paleoclimatology
![Weiguang (Roger) Wu](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2020-08/rogerwu_header.jpg?itok=MbZFSj2f)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Weiguang (Roger) Wu
Scripps undergraduate student pursues studying ocean science in the name of art
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Scripps Student Spotlight: Daniela Faggiani Dias
A PhD student hailing from Brazil seeks new ways to understand the mechanisms that enable scientists to make accurate climate predictions
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Scripps Student Spotlight: India Dove
A recently-graduated marine biology student analyzes the changes in the population size structure of Nassau Grouper to assess their recovery from overexploitation
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Scripps Student Spotlight: Daniel Yee
Scripps PhD student pursues research in molecular and cell biology of diatoms responsible for a large portion of the planet’s photosynthesis and oxygen production
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Scripps Student Spotlight: Kayla Wilson
A PhD student studying the biochemistry of marine sponges seeks new ways to help improve human health
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Scripps Student Spotlight: Emily Kunselman
A graduate student investigates the benefits of bacteria found in oyster microbiomes
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Scripps Student Spotlight: Anaí Novoa
Graduate student investigates the role and future of parasites when their hosts respond to climate change
![Scripps Oceanography graduate student Grant Batzel.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/communications-content/field_crop/img_6791_0.jpg?itok=OC9JR0sT)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Grant Batzel
A passionate PhD student who makes the most out of his time at Scripps to study the slipper snail and become a well-rounded scientist
![Master's student Jessica Sportelli on a Zodiac in the Churchill River in Canada.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/communications-content/field_crop/sportelliheader_0.jpg?itok=t3fVeLwg)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Jessica Sportelli
Marine biology master’s student is studying whale acoustics to identify why killer whales are migrating to new places
![Drake Singleton examines the surface rupture of the recent 7.1-magnitude earthquake near Ridgecrest, Calif. Photo: Nick Lau](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/communications-content/field_crop/siocomm_ridgecrest_drake_0_0_0.jpg?itok=5aXZWDL1)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Drake Singleton
Geophysics graduate student conducts research to understand earthquakes and active faults in Southern California
![](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/2020-08/DariaSheik.png?itok=_FE4Ftjp)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Daria Sheik
Marine Biodiversity and Conservation graduate student is working to develop an app to connect conservation organizations and researchers with people across the world
![Scripps graduate student Audrey Tan.](/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/communications-content/field_crop/tanheader_0.jpg?itok=Tu6KcW-Y)
Scripps Student Spotlight: Audrey Tan
Climate Science and Policy graduate student is researching how El Niño impacts lives and biodiversity across the Pacific Ocean
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