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Research Highlight: NSF Awards $20 Million for Continued Study of Aerosols at UC San Diego

Photo of the Week: Arctic Aloha

Atmospheric Aerosol Research Center Receives Continued NSF Funding to Investigate Human Impacts on Oceans, Atmosphere, and Climate

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

Scripps graduate student Dara Goldberg.

Scripps Student Spotlight: Dara Goldberg

Geophysics graduate student is studying earthquakes to support early warning efforts

Portrait of a male scientist in a lab; he's wearing a white lab coat and blue gloves

A Scientist's Life: Martín Tresguerres

Marine biologist discovers what organisms have in common and what makes them distinct at cellular level

Research Highlight: Study Finds Waves Trap Pollutants from River Outflows Along Shore

Photo of the Week: Surfacing Selfie

A mans hold a skull

Geneticist Svante Pääbo to Receive 2018 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest

Evolutionary anthropologist to deliver a free public lecture at Scripps Oceanography on Oct. 3

Downtown Los Angeles. Photo: istock.com/MattGush

California Releases New Climate Science, Planning Tools to Prepare for Climate Change Impacts

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

Landsat image of Cyanobacteria in Lake Okeechobee, July 4, 2018. Photo: NASA Earth Observatory

Voyager: How is climate change affecting harmful algal blooms?

Photo of the Week: Icy Terminus

National Archive photo of USS Abner Read at left; Project Recover image of gun turret from stern sunk Aug. 18, 1943, at right.

Research Highlight: Project Recover Discovers Stern of World War II Destroyer off Remote Alaskan Island

Molecular biologist Mark Hildebrand

Obituary Notice: Mark Hildebrand, Leading Algal Biofuel Scientist

Scripps Alumna Highlight: Veronica Tamsitt

National Archive photo of USS Abner Read at left; Project Recover image of gun turret from stern sunk Aug. 18, 1943, at right.

NOAA-funded Project Recover Discovers Stern of World War II U.S. Destroyer off Remote Alaskan Island

The Gulf Stream, part of the larger Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation system. Photo: NASA

Research Highlight: Climate Model Predicts Faster Warming for the North Atlantic Ocean

Graduate student Rishi Sugla visits the salt flats of Jujuy, Argentina.

Scripps Student Spotlight: Rishi Sugla

Geosciences graduate student uses interdisciplinary skillset to study Earth’s ancient oxygen levels

Three Scripps-Led Panels in Consideration for SXSW 2019

Voting now open through Aug. 30

Photo of the Week: Rays in Sunshine

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

Virginia Pan, summer intern for the Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps Oceanography, testing the prototype for her lab.

Training Tomorrow's Scientists: the Marine Physical Laboratory Internship Program

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

Photo of the Week: Lander Wrangling

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