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Scripps graduate student Audrey Tan.

Scripps Student Spotlight: Audrey Tan

Climate Science and Policy graduate student is researching how El Niño impacts lives and biodiversity across the Pacific Ocean

Arctic Ocean melt ponds. Photo: Karen Frey/Clark University

Mysterious Holes in Antarctic Sea Ice Explained by Years of Robotic Data

Photo of the Week: Put to the Test

New Study Finds Microplastic Throughout Monterey Bay

An oceanographer wearing a safety hat and life jacket conducts research on a ship

A Scientist's Life: Drew Lucas

Oceanographer develops technology to study small-scale ocean physics that influence climate

A woman leans over to touch a succulent in a garden.

Around the Pier: Scripps Succulent Garden Sheds Light on Coral Reefs

Graduates of Scripps Oceanography program develop coral reef-inspired succulent garden on campus to bring science out of labs

Researchers Discover What Makes Deep-Sea Dragonfish Teeth Transparent

Scripps CO2 Group Director Ralph Keeling

Research Highlight: Carbon Dioxide Levels Hit Record Peak in May

Monthly average surpassed 414 parts per million at Mauna Loa observatory

Scripps CO2 Group Director Ralph Keeling

Carbon Dioxide Levels Hit Record Peak in May

Monthly average surpassed 414 parts per million at Mauna Loa Observatory

Photo of the Week: The Red Tide is Back

Around the Pier: Seadragons & Seahorses Now Open at Birch Aquarium

Photo: iStockPhoto/puwa2827

Breakthrough in Predicting Dengue Fever Outbreaks

Seadragons & Seahorses Now Open at Birch Aquarium

Lead author Sunyoung Park (second from left) and Scripps co-authors (l-r) Jooil Kim, Jens Mühle, Ray Weiss. Photo: Erik Jepsen

Research Highlight: Scientists Discover Source of New CFC emissions

Study Uncovers Surprising Melting Patterns Beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf

Casts new light on threats to Antarctica’s largest ice shelf

Lead author Sunyoung Park (second from left) and Scripps co-authors (l-r) Jooil Kim, Jens Mühle, Ray Weiss. Photo: Erik Jepsen

Scientists Discover Source of New CFC emissions

Photo of the Week: Nighttime Operations

Scripps graduate student Travis Courtney. Photo by Lark Starkey.

Scripps Student Spotlight: Travis Courtney

Geosciences graduate student is researching how climate change is affecting coral reef structures

Photo of the Week: A Fine Specimen

Two spot octopus larvae. PC: Lilly McCormick

Low Oxygen Levels Could Temporarily Blind Marine Invertebrates

Yellow buoy carried on deck of motor vessel with Golden Gate Bridge in the background

Photo of the Week: Golden Voyage

The seaweed Digenea simplex on the beach.

Scientists Develop New Production Method for Seaweed Chemical Used in Brain Research

Researchers find an affordable and effective way to produce kainic acid, an important natural chemical used by neuroscientists

Photo of the Week: Pier Discoveries

A woman holds a flask of seaweed in her hand.

Around the Pier: Usurp the Burp

How seaweed could help curb cow burps—one of California’s greatest sources of methane emissions

Scripps graduate student Allison Cusick

Scripps Student Spotlight: Allison Cusick

Oceanography graduate student is researching how water from melting glaciers affects phytoplankton in the Arctic and Antarctic

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