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Brice Semmens (right) participates in a Google Hangout at a grouper spawning aggregation site.

Research Highlight: Grouper Moon Project Uses Scripps Science to Revive a Caribbean Fish

The Nassau Grouper is in the midst of a comeback thanks to conservation and technology

Chris Ford via Flickr

On the Precipice: Study Identifies California Cliffs at Risk of Collapse

A California Sea Grant-funded study provides the largest analysis of cliff erosion throughout the state and provides a new hazard index for determining which areas are at most risk

Scripps MAS student Brant Chlebowski

Around the Pier: Triton Innovation Challenge Awards Forward-Thinking Scientists

Innovative spirit in full swing at UC San Diego’s environmentally-focused business competition

Photo of the Week: Up, up, upwelling

Probing the skies while studying ocean processes off Southern California

an acoustic instrument is lowered off a ship

Photo of the Week: Listening off La Jolla

R/V Sally Ride recovers moorings during student-led cruise

Researchers Develop Novel Microscope to Study the Underwater World

Seafloor imagining system captures a microscopic view of a coral’s life

Two women and two men visit a research lab

Cutting-Edge Scripps Research Facility Dedicated to Dickinson Foundation

Donors funded purchase of new instrument to be used for research in marine drug discovery

Scripps Researchers Develop Breakthrough Technology to Characterize Nanoparticles

New start-up company will capitalize on technology to see what can’t be seen using a traditional microscope

A fin whale surfacing

A Tale of Two Whales: Seven-Year Study Indicates Steady and Upward Trends for Blue and Fin Whales in Southern California

Scripps-led study used acoustic data to provide the first detailed view of calling blue and fin whale distribution in the waters off Southern California

Scripps Oceanography Researcher Receives Young Investigator Award

Researcher is among the 36 awardees from the Office of Naval Research program

A stand-up paddleboarder near a pier at sunset.

Around the Pier: Standing Up for Science

Scripps grad student Phil Bresnahan combines love for outdoor recreation and science through outreach program

A North Pacific Right Whale in the Bering Sea

Research Highlight: The Sound of Hope

Rare whale species heard off continental U.S. for the first time in more than 20 years

New seafloor map

New Map Exposes Previously Unseen Details of Seafloor

Mysteries of the deep come alive as satellite data bring thousands of uncharted sea mountains and new clues about deep ocean structures into focus

A group of people board RP FLIP

Around the Pier: All Aboard FLIP!

Group of engineering students enjoy rare opportunity to spend weekend onboard FLIP

A team of 5 colleagues near the beach

New Center Targets Ocean Contaminants and Human Health

Scripps scientists lead two separate projects to track potentially toxic chemicals in marine life and their impacts on human health

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