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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

From the Field: Follow the San Diego Coastal Expedition

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

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

Why is the ocean blue

Voyager: Why is the ocean blue?

Voyager: Why Don't Ocean Surface Currents Cross the Equator?

Scientists ID Giant Amoebas in the Extreme Deep

Walter Munk (left) and Bill Kuperman

Around the Pier: Oceanographer Wins Award Named for His Next-Door Neighbor

William Kuperman receives Walter Munk Award

The deep submergence vehicle Alvin on the research vessel Atlantis during the Costa Rica Rocks expedition.

Voyager: Some animals live deep in the ocean at great depths and pressure. How do you study them? Won't they die when you remove them from their native environment?

Reef sharks

Loss of Large Predators Has Caused Widespread Disruption of Ecosystems

Scripps Unveils New Live HD Web Cam of Surf Views from Scripps Pier

Voyager: How fast and far do waves travel?

Emperors of Diving

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