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Tasiilaq, Greenland, during a record hot July 2019. Photo: James Holte

Summer Broke Arctic Temperature Records. Here's What Scripps Researchers Who Lived It Had to Say.

Photo of the Week: Welcome to Space

Scripps Oceanography graduate student Grant Batzel.

Scripps Student Spotlight: Grant Batzel

A passionate PhD student who makes the most out of his time at Scripps to study the slipper snail and become a well-rounded scientist

A coral reef in the Central Pacific. PC: Mike Fox

Scientists Find that Corals Rely More on Hunting than Previously Thought

Photo of the Week: Godspeed, Jessica Meir

Atlantic Ocean Circulation Influenced by Tropical Indian Ocean Warming Trends, Say Researchers

Photo of the Week: Going SOLO

Biochemist Jennifer Doudna to Receive 2019 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest

Scientists Discover New Method of Communication in Crabs

Group photo of SURF students gathered on a lawn near the ocean.

SURF Program 2019: Student Profiles

Photo of the Week: Beam Team

A gray wahle breaching. Photo: Alisa Schulman-Janiger

Research Highlight: Scientists Find Key Changes in Gray Whale Migration Routes off Southern California

Increasing numbers of gray whales migrating closer to shore could put whales at risk for ship strikes, entanglements, and pollution

West Antarctica 2019

Research Highlight: Early Results Suggest California Marine Protected Areas are a Success

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two people tag a fish

Early Results Suggest California Marine Protected Areas are a Success

Seven years after completion of network, rebounds of certain species seen

a compilation image of microscopic plastic

Explosion in Plastic Pollution Post-World War II Seen in Marine Sediments

Surge in microplastics could serve as marker for “the Great Acceleration”

Seen under the microscope, varied bits of plastic begin to accumulate in sediment after World War II

Research Highlight: Explosion in Plastic Pollution Post-World War II in Marine Sediments

NSF Awards San Diego Supercomputer Center and Partners $5.9 Million to Host EarthCube Office

Photo of the Week: Wave Riders

Surf Program at Scripps Oceanography

Around the Pier: SURF Program Fosters Network of Support for Students to Continue to Graduate School

Q&A with several 2019 SURF participants, including two alumni mentors who are currently pursuing PhDs at Scripps Oceanography

Master's student Jessica Sportelli on a Zodiac in the Churchill River in Canada.

Scripps Student Spotlight: Jessica Sportelli

Marine biology master’s student is studying whale acoustics to identify why killer whales are migrating to new places

Photo of the Week: Getting to the Bottom of Things

Beneath a placid surface, an internal tsunami was rolling through this Mexican lake when this photo was taken

Research Highlight: Internal Tsunamis Can Alter Bodies of Water Profoundly

Microfibers fluorescing under a microscope

Scripps Oceanography Researchers Adopting Global Approach to Studying Microplastics and Microfibers

Researchers in a lab next to a wave channel

Research Highlight: Scientists Bring the Ocean into the Lab to Study Human Impacts on the Ocean and Climate

Interdisciplinary SeaSCAPE project utilizes large wave tank to look at how human pollution is affecting the ability of ocean biology to control clouds and climate

Climate Change Likely to Increase Human Exposure to Toxic Mercury

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