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San Diego coastline as seen from aircraft bearing instruments that make precision measurements of beach topography

Around the Pier: El Niño Beach Survey Provides Glimpse of What's to Come for the Coast

Portrait of a woman with curly blonde hair, standing on a bluff

A Scientist's Life: Sarah N. Giddings

Coastal oceanographer studies the changing nature of estuaries

Acoustic technology and a marine seep.

Research Highlight: Acoustic Technology Aids Scripps Scientists in Study of Marine Seeps

Xenoturbella churro (top center), one of four new flatworm-like species found by scientists including Scripps's Greg Rouse

Research Highlight: Deep-Sea Churro Finds its Evolutionary Home

Obituary Notice: Leonard Liebermann, Scripps Expert on Underwater Sound

Scripps Science Responds to El Niño

Across a wide range of disciplines, Scripps researchers are observing this year’s historic event in greater detail than ever before

A humpback whale breaches near San Diego Bay, Feb. 7, 2016. Photo: Chris Fitzsimmons/BAS

Photo of the Week

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

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