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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

Around the Pier: The Pier Cam is back! The Pier Cam is back!

Scripps physical oceanographer Dean Roemmich

Voyager: What makes the ocean salty and how much salt is in the ocean?

This illustration shows patterns of ocean currents.

Voyager: Does water from the California coast ever become water in the Atlantic Ocean?

Decade of Discovery

Scripps Best in Country for Graduate Program in Oceanography, Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology

Gray whale surfacing during Birch Aquarium whale watching cruise. Photo by Peter Scheu

Voyager: How much of the earth is truly undiscovered, above and/or below water?

Voyager: If you are on a ship, can you feel an earthquake/tsunami?

World's Largest Oceanography Library Goes Digital

World's Largest Oceanography Library Goes Digital

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

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

Thermal Energy of the Ocean Powers New Autonomous Vehicle

Inside the Plastic Vortex

New Research Uncovers Deep Origins of the 'Hawaiian Hotspot'

Giant sea bass in Birch Aquarium at Scripps' kelp forest tank.

(Floating) Around the Pier

Debris collected from SEAPLEX cruise to survey Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 2008

SEAPLEX: Scripps Research Cruise

SEAPLEX will explore the North Pacific Ocean Gyre aboard the Scripps research vessel New Horizon

Journey to the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch

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