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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

Research Highlight: Powered by Plankton

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

Scripps Now Powering Point Loma Ship Facility with the Sun

Scripps' one-of-a-kind FLIP turns 50

First Roger Revelle Chair to Join Scripps

Research Highlight: Scripps Delivers Science to James Cameron's Historic Dive into the Abyss

Business Idea Based on Scripps Marine Drug Discovery Takes First Place at Inaugural Triton Greenovation Challenge

Business Idea Based on Scripps Marine Drug Discovery Takes First Place at Inaugural Triton Greenovation Challenge

Engineers prepare to launch SOLO-TREC, off Hawaii. Photo NASA/JPL

Thermal Energy of the Ocean Powers New Autonomous Vehicle

Voyager: As they move through the ocean, how far do AUVs and gliders go?

Salinity of the world's oceans is mapped in contour lines using data collected by Argo drifters.

Argo: World's Hydrological Cycle is Accelerating

NASA’s Landsat satellites captured this remarkable image of Canyonlands National Park in August 1972.

Voyager: How have satellites improved in the last 50 years?

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Voyager: To whom will Argo research be given? How will it be published and used?

Nearly 3,000 Argo floats have been dropped throughout the world’s oceans.

Voyager: How are Argo buoys able to descend and ascend? Is there a motor?

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