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The Thomas Fire races toward Southern California cities of Ojai and Santa Paula, Dec. 7, 2017. Photo: istockphoto/JPhilipson

Climate Change May Suppress Santa Ana Winds, Particularly in Fall

Around the Pier: Bringing Science to Global Climate Talks

Large delegation of students and researchers from Scripps Oceanography and University of California participate in COP24 climate conference in Poland

Scripps graduate student Matthew Costa. Photo: Octavio Aburto-Oropeza

Scripps Student Spotlight: Matthew Costa

Biological oceanography graduate student is studying wetlands inhabited by productive and salt-tolerant trees called mangroves

View of internal waves off northern coast of Trinidad seen from International Space Station. Photo: NASA

Research Highlight: New Research Sheds Light on Hidden Ocean Waves Close to Shore

Photo of Jack Pan, Scripps PhD Candidate and founder of Ocean Motion Technologies

Triton Innovation Challenge: Scripps Entrepreneurs Venture Beyond Barriers

Red, yellow, and bluish coral and animals in the deep ocean.

Photo of the Week: 925 Meters Down

Zooglider (top) with a selection of zooplankton imagery the robot has captured. Top photo: Benjamin Whitmore

New Robot Can Sense Plankton Optically and Acoustically

A surfer on the beach at sunset

Photo of the Week: Scripps Sunset

A dazzling winter sky accompanies a lone surfer

At a depth of 58 meters (190 feet), Paul Dayton with a camera flash unit in McMurdo Sound, 1968

How Marine Life Responds to Upheaval

Recent episode in Antarctica set off a chain of ecological events and offered a study in resilience

Photo of the Week: Sally Ride Sunrise

The amount of data readings, or profiles, made by Argo is nearly four times the number made before Argo's start 20 years ago

Argo Program Achieves Milestone with Two Million Ocean Measurements

Research Highlight: Monitoring Ocean Health Using Fish Sounds

Winters Becoming Shorter in Mountainous Western U.S.

Scripps graduate student Margaret Lindeman. Photo: Alex Hager

Scripps Student Spotlight: Margaret Lindeman

Oceanography graduate student is studying ice-ocean interactions in Greenland’s fjords

SCMA co-director Tom Levy surveys the wreckage of a 4th Century BC shipwreck off Cyprus at more than 43 meters (140 feet) deep.

Research Highlight: New Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology Seeks Answers to the End of Civilizations

Phytoplankton

Researchers Discover New Region of Iron Limitation in Ocean

Photo of the Week: Taking the Word to COP24

Research Highlight: In Waters Nearly Oxygen-Free, Researchers Find Thriving Fish Populations

A brunette woman wearing glasses stands near a grassy patch along the coast

A Scientist's Life: Emily Chin

Geologist uses surface rocks to understand what’s happening miles within Earth’s interior

In Waters Almost Completely Devoid of Oxygen, Thriving Fish Populations

UC San Diego Scientists Bringing New Science on Geoengineering, Atmospheric Rivers, Plummeting Oxygen in the Oceans to COP24

New results, policy analysis offered by leading-edge researchers in Katowice, Poland

Ocean Protection Council Awards $1 Million to Scripps Oceanography Researchers

Photo of the Week: Sea of Ice

45 UC San Diego Faculty Named Most Influential in Their Fields

Three Scripps Oceanography faculty named in new listing of highly cited researchers

Seven UC San Diego Professors Named AAAS Fellows

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