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Argo floats deployed from R/V Palmer during NSF-funded SOCCOM cruise to Southern Ocean. Photo: Greta Shum

Human Causes Only Plausible Source of Warming in Southern Ocean

Synthesis of observational data and models shows trend not due to natural variability

Joris Gieskes and David Sandwell

Scripps Scientists Recognized by American Geophysical Union

Helen Amanda Fricker and Lynn Russell named AGU Fellows; Richard Somerville to receive AGU Ambassador Award

A scientific diver ascends a reef wall in Palau.

Scientists Find Corals in Deeper Waters Under Stress Too

Scripps researchers use novel approach to assess temperature stress on deep coral reefs in Palau, combining sea level and temperature data sets from continuous recorders serviced by divers

A woman scuba diving

Scripps Alumna and Sally Ride Science Instructor to Embark on Arctic Expedition

Cynthia Matzke, MAS '14, will study climate issues and engage in outreach to build an understanding of environmental changes and Inuit culture

Photo: leolintang/IStockPhoto

Still Time to Act: Impending Weather and Health Disasters from Climate Change Could Spur Progress in Cutting Emissions

UC San Diego researchers argue that terrifying insights into what humans are doing to the environment could help activists and political leaders build momentum for deep and costly cuts in emissions

Portrait of a man with U.S Air Force planes behind him

A Scientist's Life: Marty Ralph

Meteorologist pioneered study of atmospheric rivers impacting the western U.S.

Scripps climate and atmospheric scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan. Photo: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego

Ramanathan Shares $1.33 Million Sustainable Development Prize with Fellow Climate Science Pioneer

Renowned Scripps climate researcher and former NASA scientist James Hansen honored for their work

The Antarctic Peninsula. Photo Sinéad Farrell/Univ. of Maryland

Satellites Track Vanishing Antarctic Ice

Special issue of journal Nature on Antarctica suggests long-term decline of sea ice, posits new scenarios for continent’s future

Dogs pulling sled on Greenland snowfield. Photo: Calvin Shackleton

From the Field: Greenland by Helicopter (and Dogsled)

Scripps students try to inform estimates of sea-level rise from remote ice cap

Photo of the Week: Life under the Ice

Researchers investigate how iceberg calving affects Antarctic marine life

Photo of the Week: Crushed Ice

Collecting glacial ice to study fjord ecosystems in the Southern Ocean

 New study shows ability of plankton like these diatoms to acquire iron is sensitive to ocean acidification

Key Biological Mechanism is Disrupted by Ocean Acidification

Inability of phytoplankton to acquire iron imperils marine ecosystems

Scripps Joins Mission to Understand a Major Southern Ocean Climate Influence

The world’s most pristine clouds happen to be in the place with the world’s roughest weather

Meinrat Andreae

Pioneering Scripps Earth Scientist Awarded by the European Geosciences Union

Meinrat Andreae to receive Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership for groundbreaking research in geosciences

Photo of the Week: Plankton Ahoy

Student helps citizen scientists gather data in Antarctic fjords

The front of Antarctica's Getz Ice Shelf. Photo: Jeremy Harbeck/NASA

New Study Reveals Strong El Niño Events Cause Large Changes in Antarctic Ice Shelves

Oscillations of water temperature in the tropical Pacific Ocean can induce rapid melting of Antarctic ice shelves

New Study Identifies Thermometer for the Past Global Ocean

Researchers now able to reconstruct past ocean temperatures

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