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Wreckage of a U.S. Navy TBM-1C Avenger located by Project RECOVER off Palau. Photo: Eric Terrill, Mark Moline

Downed World War II Aircraft Missing for 72 Years Located in Pacific Islands by Project RECOVER

The Structure of Ocean Ecosystems Has Been Stable for Tens of Millions of Years, With Occasional Rapid Changes

Aided by Scripps Oceanography, Pacific Island Country Launches Plan to Protect Marine Life

San Diego coastline as seen from aircraft bearing instruments that make precision measurements of beach topography

Around the Pier: El Niño Beach Survey Provides Glimpse of What's to Come for the Coast

Portrait of a woman with curly blonde hair, standing on a bluff

A Scientist's Life: Sarah N. Giddings

Coastal oceanographer studies the changing nature of estuaries

Research Highlight: Deep-Sea Churro Finds its Evolutionary Home

Rodney Moll, Kevin Hardy, Natalya Gallo

New Agreement Enlists Citizen Scientists in Support of Scripps Exploration at Sea

Updated Google Earth image at right shows new seafloor features in the western Philippine Sea compared to earlier version

Around the Pier: New Global Seafloor Map Incorporated into Google Ocean

HARP deployment

Scripps Oceanography Researcher Receives NAS Gulf Research Program Award

Waves reach Highway 101 north of Solana Beach, Calif. in 2010.

Around the Pier: Citizen Science Will Help Assess Effects of El Niño

Around the Pier: Scripps Alum Tim Gallaudet Becomes Oceanographer of the Navy

CalCOFI cruise

California's Fish Populations Are Declining

UC San Diego Top Institution in United States for Environmental and Earth Sciences

Photo of mackerel

Climate Change Causes Timing Shifts in Fish Reproduction

Photo credit: NASA

Research Highlight: Sea Currents and Wind Patterns in the Pacific Ocean Linked to Climate Change

Three men at an award ceremony

Around the Pier: Scripps Graduate Student Honored for Research Excellence

Hao Ye selected as 20th recipient of the annual Frieman Prize, a Scripps-given honor

Study of Giant South China Sea Internal Waves Provides First-Ever View of Their Entire Life Cycle

Bioluminescent flash

Research Highlight: The Force behind Nature's Light

Blob 2.0

Scientists to Analyze "the Blob" at Scripps Oceanography Workshop

Students interacting on the Martin Johnson House deck

Engineering & Our Oceans: Unique Opportunity Lets Public Experience Ocean Engineering Up Close

Mooring recovery during T-TIDE

Video: T-TIDE leg 3 Mooring recovery cruise

Research Highlight: The Dolphin Sentinels

New Species, the 'Ruby Seadragon,' Discovered by Scripps Researchers

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

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