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Global Climate Models Fail to Simulate Key Dust Characteristics

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Map of Okhotsk earthquake

Scripps Scientists Discover Evidence of Super-fast Deep Earthquake

Scripps Geophysicist to be Honored By Geological Society of America

UC San Diego Awards Emeriti Professorship to Veteran Scripps Climate Researcher

Tony Young, fmr. pres., San Diego City Council with his wife Jacqueline and grandson Isaiah at Mission Bay. Photo: Lori Brookes

Climate Education Partners and The San Diego Foundation Release "San Diego, 2050 Is Calling. How Will We Answer?"

Giant anchovy school

Massive Anchovy School Migrates off La Jolla

Three students visit the Vatican.

Around the Pier: Scripps Grad Students Attend Sustainability Conference at the Vatican

A man wearing a blue shirt and glasses; the ocean and a pier are shown in the background

A Scientist's Life: Kerry Key

Scripps geophysicist describes using electromagnetics to see under the ocean

Healthy reefs

From Despair to Repair: Protecting Parrotfish Can Help Bring Back Caribbean Coral Reefs

Natural and man-made chemicals

Marine Bacteria Are Natural Source of Chemical Fire Retardants

Amphioxus fluoresence

Behind a Marine Creature's Bright Green Fluorescent Glow

Research Highlight: A Possible Key Ingredient in the Recipe for Life on Earth

Video: Jennifer Smith Visits Career Girls

Scripps family in Pawka Green

"A School for the Study of Life"

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Stanley Miller's Forgotten Experiments, Analyzed

Girl Scouts take part in Ocean Sampling Day on Scripps Pier

Around the Pier: Scripps Joins Global Seawater Sampling Mission

New Understanding of Key Ocean Passageway Could Aid Climate Change Forecasts

Around the Pier: Birch Aquarium at Scripps Names Interim Executive Director

Steven Schindler

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Names Interim Executive Director

Department of Defense Awards Funds to Five Scripps Researchers to Develop Instrumentation

Scripps biological oceanography student Jenni Brandon

Video: Scripps's Jenni Brandon Visits Career Girls

El Niño Is Shaping Up in Southern California

a researcher works on a ship

Scripps Graduate Student Honored for Top Research Paper

Annual Frieman Prize honors excellence in graduate student research

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