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Photo of the Week: Bermuda Blue

Scripps Oceanography graduate student and Frieman Prize winner Nastassia Patin

Around the Pier: Scripps Student's Work Distinguishing Bacterial Species Honored

Scripps Oceanography researchers identified three main periods of distinct marine life composition in the oceans

Research Highlight: Ocean Ecosystem Structure Stable for Tens of Millions of Years, with Occasional Rapid Changes

A research vessel near the coast

Around the Pier: A Noble Experiment

Scripps research vessel Robert Gordon Sproul runs on renewable biofuel for one year

Wreckage of a U.S. Navy TBM-1C Avenger located by Project RECOVER off Palau. Photo: Eric Terrill, Mark Moline

Around the Pier: Downed World War II Aircraft Missing for 72 Years Located in Pacific Islands by Project RECOVER

Two men looking across ashy terrain at smoldering volcano.

Photo of the Week: Smoldering Chaitén

Photo of the Week: Dogs of the Antarctic Sun

Wreckage of a U.S. Navy TBM-1C Avenger located by Project RECOVER off Palau. Photo: Eric Terrill, Mark Moline

Downed World War II Aircraft Missing for 72 Years Located in Pacific Islands by Project RECOVER

Kimberly Prather. Photo: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications

Around the Pier: UC San Diego Chemistry Professor Wins Prestigious California Air Resources Board Honor

Around the Pier: Aided by Scripps Oceanography, Pacific Island Country Launches Plan to Protect Marine Life

AWARE panorama with Aurora Australis

Photo of the Week: Southern Lights

A woman stands near the ocean.

Scripps Graduate Student Honored by UC San Diego's Sustainability Office

The Structure of Ocean Ecosystems Has Been Stable for Tens of Millions of Years, With Occasional Rapid Changes

Kimberly Prather. Photo: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications

UC San Diego Chemistry Professor Wins Prestigious California Air Resources Board Honor

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Announces 11th Green Flash Concert Series

Photo of the Week: Suiting Up

Aided by Scripps Oceanography, Pacific Island Country Launches Plan to Protect Marine Life

Ernie Aaron

New Invention Advances Freshwater Seismology Research

UC MEXUS workshop participants.

UC MEXUS Workshop Fosters Collaboration Beyond Borders

Photo of the Week: Topped up off Thailand

Beach erosion at La Jolla Shores

Scientifically, This Was Still a Monster El Niño Year

Biofluorescent Swell Shark. Photo: J. Sparks/D. Gruber

Research Highlight: Patterns of Glowing Sharks Get Clearer with Depth

Photo of the Week: Farewell Melville

Matthew Siegfried. Field photo by Oliver Marsh, Gateway Antarctica

What Lies beneath West Antarctica?

Grad SLAM participants

Grad SLAM Participants Demonstrate the Power of the Three-Minute Pitch

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