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

Around the Pier: SURFing into Science Research

SURF program at Scripps provides stepping-stone for diverse students considering graduate programs in earth and ocean sciences

A significantly drier El Niño visited Southern California in 2015-16

Research Highlight: Why Was the 2015-16 El Niño Event So Dry?

Alloy crystals take varied shapes under pressure analagous to planet core. Image: Scripps, Sabine Faulhaber/UCSD Nanoengineering

Research Highlight: Squeezing Out the Story of Planets

Photo of the Week: Antarctic Melt

His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco, Walter Munk and Mary Coakley Munk

His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco to Join 100th Birthday Celebration for Renowned Scripps Oceanographer at UC San Diego

Photo: MistikaS/iStock

Research Highlight: Rising CO2 Leading to Changes in Land Plant Photosynthesis

Suggests that plants have achieved an optimum response to rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere

Photo of the Week: Initial Conditions

Estimated surface temperature trend 1967-2017. Data accessed from NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Sept. 18, 2017

Research Highlight: New Climate Risk Classification Created to Account for Potential "Existential" Threats

RV Sally Ride off Point Sal

Photo of the Week: Point of Discovery

New Climate Risk Classification Created to Account for Potential "Existential" Threats

View of an atmospheric river that made landfall in California on Feb. 16, 2017

California's Climate Future Suggests More Volatility and a Key Role for Atmospheric Rivers

Management of water resources could become more challenging

Photo: MistikaS/iStock

Rising CO2 Leading to Changes in Land Plant Photosynthesis

Suggests that plants have achieved an optimum response to rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere

A man with curly ligth brown hair stands in front of a white board in a classroom

A Scientist's Life: Andrew Barton

Marine ecologist considers diversity of plankton and their roles in ecosystems

Photo of the Week: I See Sea Spiders

Mark Merrifield

Around the Pier: Sea-Level Rise Researcher to Lead Climate Center

Bone scan of Yellowfin Fringehead (Neoclinus stephensae)

Around the Pier: Scripps Collection to Participate in Project to Create 3-D Digital Archive of Every Vertebrate Genus

Photo of the Week: Reverberations

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Protect Herbivores, Preserve Coral Reefs

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Research Highlight: Protect Herbivores, Preserve Coral Reefs

Photo of the Week: Plotting Puerto Rico

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

SURF Program 2017: Student Profiles

Natural Methane "Time Bomb" Unlikely to Wreak Climate Havoc

But human-caused fossil methane emissions larger than previously believed

Research Highlight: Analysis of "Rusty" Lunar Rock Suggest the Moon's Interior Is Dry

Analysis of "Rusty" Lunar Rock Suggest the Moon's Interior Is Dry

Photo of the Week: Always a Welcome Sight

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