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Fossils Reveal Long-Term Ecosystem Stability, Decline of Sharks

Photo of the Week: R/V Sally Ride

HARP deployment

Scripps Oceanography Researcher Receives NAS Gulf Research Program Award

RAID field layout

Completion of Ice Drilling System to be Announced at AGU Fall Meeting

Charles Cox obituary

Obituary Notice: Charles Cox: Esteemed Scripps Professor of Oceanography

A critically endangered gooty sapphire ornamental tarantula and its reflection. Credit: Michael Kern/www.thegardensofeden.org

New Study Reveals What's Behind a Tarantula's Blue Hue

George Hemingway

Obituary Notice: George Hemingway: Thirty-Year Scripps Biological Oceanographer

Follow Scripps Oceanography at COP21 beginning Nov. 30

UC San Diego to Send Delegation to COP21

three Scientists Named ASLO Sustaining Fellows

Three Scripps Professors Named ASLO Sustaining Fellows

Photo of the Week: Antarctic Radar

Six chefs at a seafood event

Culinary Sustainability: An Evening of Food and Fun

Sea-to-table culinary event honored Director’s Circle members at Scripps Oceanography

Research Highlight: Peeking into the Underwater World of Leopard Seals

Researchers Find an Unexpected Protein Function in Sea Urchin Embryo Development

Experimental model diatom

Moore Foundation to Fund Scripps Scientist to Optimize Genome Editing Technology in Marine Microalgae

From the Field: Chilean Tsunami Rocks Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf

Cold-water corals vulnerable to warming, acidification in Mediterranean canyons. Photo: N. Le Bris, LECOB, Fondation Total–UPMC

Around the Pier: Deep-Ocean Protections May Help Mitigate Climate Change

Cold-water corals vulnerable to warming, acidification in Mediterranean canyons. Photo: N. Le Bris, LECOB, Fondation Total–UPMC

Deep-Ocean Protections May Help Mitigate Climate Change

ANZA Network

Critical Earthquake Monitoring Network Continues Operation with Private Funding

Mammerickx Microplate

Scientists Date Birth of Himalayas from Newly Discovered Microplate

Photo of the Week

Simulations of surface temperature anomalies. Image: Nature Geoscience

A New Take on the Global Warming Hiatus

Waves reach Highway 101 north of Solana Beach, Calif. in 2010.

Around the Pier: Citizen Science Will Help Assess Effects of El Niño

Students film a scene for a class video project.

Lights, Camera, Action: Using Filmmaking to Teach Students the Science Behind Natural Disasters

Around the Pier: Bending the Curve

Waves reach Highway 101 north of Solana Beach, Calif. in 2010.

Citizen Science Will Help Assess Effects of El Niño

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