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Typhoons Likely to Intensify by as Much as 14 Percent under a Moderate Climate Change Scenario

Scripps Oceanography Researcher Receives Young Investigator Award

Researcher is among the 36 awardees from the Office of Naval Research program

Velella velella seen on San Diego beaches.

Photo of the Week: Velella velella

Arriving by the wind

County road in Berthoud, Colorado washed away by the September 2013 Colorado Front Range floods. Credit: Lornay Hansen/CIRES

Colorado's Biggest Storms Can Happen Anytime, New Study Finds

Two students stand in front of artwork

Artistic Display Brings Zooplankton into Focus

Two New Studies of Rocks Show Earliest Forms of Life in Antarctic Ice Caves and in South African Lava

A woman smiles near a cherry blossum tree.

Scripps Alumna Amy Bowman Heads to Washington D.C. for Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship

New Link between Ocean Microbes and Atmosphere Uncovered

Image of ocean eddies. Image: NASA/JPL

Revelle Lecture at Scripps: Overturning Assumptions on Ocean Circulation

Students in a computer lab

Three-Way Partnership Brings STEAM Learning to Underserved Youth in San Diego

A man in a plaid shirt sits next to a microscope in a lab

A Scientist's Life: Ryan Hechinger

Marine biologist considers parasites to study broad ecological questions

Bioluminescent flash

Research Highlight: The Force behind Nature's Light

Study of Giant South China Sea Internal Waves Provides First-Ever View of Their Entire Life Cycle

Around the Pier: Inaugural Conference Connects Local High School Students to Atmospheric Research

Helical diatoms in ocean waters off Scripps Pier

Photo of the Week

Scientists to Analyze "the Blob" at Scripps Oceanography Workshop

Washington D.C.

New Summer Program Teaches High School Students the Science of Climate Change and How to Impact Policy in Washington

Arctic Ocean melt ponds. Photo: Karen Frey/Clark University

Two-Mile-Long Ice Core Reveals Ocean Currents Transmitted Climate Changes from the Arctic to the Antarctic

New NAS members Karten, Schroeder, Severinghaus, and Tauxe

UC San Diego Professors Elected to National Academy of Sciences

A group of students watch a science demo.

Scripps Makes a Splash at Triton Day 2015

American Chemical Society Honors Keeling Curve and NOAA Observatory

E. coli

Scientists at Scripps and the J. Craig Venter Institute Publish Paper Outlining Efficient Synthetic Biology Methods to Genetically Engineer Microalgae

Arctic Ocean melt ponds. Photo: Karen Frey/Clark University

Research Highlight: Arctic Sea Ice Loss Likely To Be Reversible

Scripps graduate student Taylor Maddalene with residents of the Pacific island of Tarawa

From the Field: Building Partnerships in Tarawa

Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation Explains Global Warming "Hiatus" Since 2000

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