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Adapting to a Changing Ocean: Preparing for Sea-Level Rise

A group of middle school students at the beach

Next Generation of Ocean Science Explorers Fostered by Scripps/Ocean Discovery Program

Local school-based program brings hands-on ocean science education to underserved students in San Diego

Healthy reefs

From Despair to Repair: Protecting Parrotfish Can Help Bring Back Caribbean Coral Reefs

El Niño Is Shaping Up in Southern California

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 man with shoulder-length hair stands at the beach

A Scientist's Life: Falk Feddersen

Falk Feddersen researches the implications of sea-level rise on our beaches

Adapting to a Changing Ocean

Bacteria AltSIO

Microscopic Organism Plays a Big Role in Ocean Carbon Cycling, Scripps Scientists Discover

Revisiting SEAPLEX

ocean temperatures at various depths

Voyager: How Long until Ocean Temperature Goes up a Few More Degrees?

Question submitted by Lily S. of Austin, Texas

Video: The Birch Aquarium at Scripps Kelp Tank is Back!

Anemometer and air sample collection tube at the tip of Scripps Pier

Research Highlight: The Ocean as Air Filter

Voyager: What would cause thermohaline circulation in the oceans to stop?

Mooring equipment for OOI

Ocean Observatories Initiative Deploys First Global Site

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

Nancy Knowlton Elected to Prestigious Science Organizations

Three mariners in safety vests and hard hats prepare to deploy an electromagnetic instrument.

Scripps Scientists Image Deep Magma beneath Pacific Seafloor Volcano

Rewriting the Sea Lily Family History

A man emerges from a deep-sea submersible

Voyager: How did James Cameron's successful dive (to the deepest part of the ocean) benefit us?

The History of the Black Sea Revealed in its Sediments

Heat Waves to Move Toward Coasts, Study Finds

Heat Waves to Move Toward Coasts, Study Finds

Going off the Map

From the Field: Going Off the Map

From the Field: Going Off the Map

Lighting a Spark for Science

Lighting a Spark for Science

Scripps Graduate Students Discover Methane Seep Ecosystem off San Diego

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