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Rodney Moll, Kevin Hardy, Natalya Gallo

New Agreement Enlists Citizen Scientists in Support of Scripps Exploration at Sea

new species

Scripps-Led Team Discovers Four New Deep-Sea Worm Species

From the Field: Empowering the Community through Citizen Science

Amato Evan points skyward with a weather balloon in the background.

Photo of the Week: Into the Great Wide Open

Joshua Stewart and a giant manta ray.

Scripps Grad Student Receives Prestigious Environmental Fellowship

Study Finds Toxic Pollutants in Fish Across the World's Oceans

Katharine Anderson Ritter Fellow

Scripps Lecture Captures Ocean Science Exploration between World Wars

Scripps Scientists Appointed to Ocean Resources Enhancement Advisory Panel

Red crabs caught during a CalCOFI bongo net tow. Photo: James Wilkinson

Photo of the Week

SIO Games Group

SIO Games Receives Boost through Private Funding

Ross Sea phase sensitive radar system

Study Finds High Melt Rates on Antarctica's Most Stable Ice Shelf

Three scientists collect an award.

Fourth Annual TriNet Challenge Awards Innovation at UC San Diego

Dr. Andy Nosal holds a leopard shark

Meet Andy Nosal, the Scripps Researcher with a Passion for Science Communication—and Sharks

The winner of a prestigious science communicator’s award, Nosal strives to dispel myths about sharks

Updated Google Earth image at right shows new seafloor features in the western Philippine Sea compared to earlier version

Around the Pier: New Global Seafloor Map Incorporated into Google Ocean

An emperor penguin resurfaces after a dive

Research Highlight: Birds of a Feather

Deployment of instrument to measure light scattering in ocean off R/V Laurence M. Gould during FjordEco cruise

Photo of the Week

Veerabhadran Ramanathan. Photo: Glenn Marzano

Scripps Climate Scientist Recognized for Pioneering Work by Spanish Foundation

Farooq Azam

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Awards UC San Diego Nearly $1 Million to Advance Knowledge of Ocean's Microbiome

Infographic courtesy of NCAR

Flying Lab to Investigate Southern Ocean's Appetite for Carbon

Photo of the Week: Sampling Sabancaya

Analysis: "This Gets Us in the Game"

Scripps Oceanography graduate students represented UC San Diego at COP21

Video: Scripps Oceanography Students at COP21

Margaret Leinen inside the Geological Collections at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

AGU President / Scripps Director to Address Challenging Data Issues

AWARE team members at the ARM Mobile Facility, Antarctica

AWARE: The Most Comprehensive Meteorological Study of Antarctica Ever Undertaken

Scripps Oceanography Climate and Atmospheric Scientist V. Ramanathan and other researchers met with Pope Francis in 2014.

Religion and Climate Change

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