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Drone Truthing

Wolf Berger

Obituary Notice: Wolf Berger, Pioneer of Paleoceanography

Yellowfin tuna

Location, Location, Location: Pollutant Levels in Tuna Depend on Where They Are Caught

A portrait of astronaut Charles Bolden and an image of a shuttle departing Earth

Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest to be Awarded to Former NASA Administrator, Astronaut

The public is invited to attend Major General Charles Frank Bolden Jr.’s free presentation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

The amount of pollutants in yellowfin tuna tissue varies widely by region, Scripps researchers found. Photo: Lindsay Bonito

Research Highlight: Pollutant Levels in Tuna Depend on Where They Are Caught

Photo of the Week: Rosette in Blue

Dr. Andy Nosal holds a leopard shark

A Scientist's Life: Andy Nosal

Marine biologist specializes in behavior and ecology of sharks and rays

Research Highlight: After the Break

How the separation of a state-sized iceberg changes ecology in a key region of ocean biology

Scripps Oceanography PhD student Natalya Gallo

Scripps Student Natalya Gallo Receives Switzer Environmental Fellowship

Photo of the Week: Putting Science in your Comic-Con

A man gives a presentation on whales

From the Porthole: Scripps Student Awarded for Innovative Research on Whale Behavior

Eric Keen receives 2017 Frieman Prize

UC San Diego students show off a 'visualization cluster' to Birch Aquarium at Scripps staff in June

Around the Pier: Birch Aquarium, UC San Diego Schools Fuse Design and Science Data in Innovative New Courses

Monthly mean sea surface temperature maximums observed by Argo network 2004-2017

Voyager: Is there a limit to how much sea temperatures can rise?

Andvord Bay, Antarctica, recently explored by Scripps ecologist Maria Vernet. Photo: Maria Stenzel

Special Notice: Scripps Oceanography Ecologist Statement on What's Next for Larsen C Iceberg

Photo of the Week: Cetacean Signal

Larsen C crack in 2016. Photo: John Sonntag/NASA

Special Notice: Statement from Scripps Oceanography Glaciologist on Larsen C Iceberg

Event in itself not necessarily cause for alarm, researcher says

Around the Pier: Meeting of the Minds

Scripps leadership and scientists meet His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to discuss climate change, global concerns

Photo of the Week: Squad Goals

A mother and calf Cuvier's beaked whale are spotted off Guadalupe Island. Photo: Jennifer Trickey

From the Field: Scripps Oceanography, INECC, and Sea Shepherd Study Elusive Cuvier's Beaked Whale

Turf algae coats the surface of a coral reef section near Moorea, French Polynesia. Photo: Maggie D. Johnson

Photo of the Week: Coral Turfed Out

Scripps physical oceanographer Nick Pizzo

Research Highlight: A Wave's "Sweet Spot" Revealed

surfing

A Wave's "Sweet Spot" Revealed

Red and blue research vessel sitting in drydock

Photo of the Week: All Decked Out

A "film" drop (red) and "jet" drop (blue) from bursting bubble filmed 8 milliseconds apart. Photo illustration: Dale Stokes

Differences in Sea Spray Particle Chemistry Linked to Formation Processes of Drops by Bubbles in Breaking Waves

A "film" drop (red) and "jet" drop (blue) from bursting bubble filmed 8 milliseconds apart. Photo illustration: Dale Stokes

Research Highlight: Breakthrough Finding in Sea Spray Particle Chemistry

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