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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

Highest-Ever Seawater Temperature Recorded at Scripps Pier

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.

March 2017 event in Manzanita Canyon drew nearly 1,000 4th graders to restore habitat. Photo: Ocean Discovery Institute

Around the Pier: San Diego Canyon Restoration Helps a Community Prepare for Climate Risks

School of sardines

Research Highlight: Modeling Technique Could Aid Estimates of Fish Populations

Around the Pier: Scripps Scientists Bring the Science to Science Fiction at Comic-Con

Photo of the Week: Bound for the Bottom

Alyssa Griffin

Scripps Student Spotlight: Alyssa Griffin

Graduate student studies the impact of changing ocean chemistry on coral reefs

Three scientists in front of comic panels.

Scripps Scientists Bringing the Science to Science Fiction at Comic-Con

Photo of the Week: Ladder to the Sea

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

Research Highlight: Evidence of Ancient Abrupt Climate Change Found in Arctic

Scripps grad student Chris Leber

Scripps Student Spotlight: Christopher Leber

Graduate student researches marine chemical ecology and marine natural products

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

Evidence of Ancient Abrupt Climate Change Found in Arctic

Photo of the Week: A Certain Sensor

Rachel Labbe-Bellas of The Green Stop competing in UC San Diego's Entrepreneur Challenge on May 24, 2018. Photo: Erik Jepsen

Scripps Entrepreneurs: Q&A with Scientists for Sustainable Technology

Photo of the Week: Gearing Up

Scripps PhD student Garfield Kwan

Ocean Science Gets Its Own Comic Book

Photo of the Week: Drift Compatible

A juvenile manta swims at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Photo: G.P. Schmahl / FGBNMS

Research Highlight: Scripps Graduate Student Discovers World's First Known Manta Ray Nursery

A research team led by PhD candidate Joshua Stewart identifies a manta ray nursery in the Gulf of Mexico

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