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Elephant in Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana, Africa

After Devastating Wildlife Loss, Scripps Chemical Oceanographer Searches for Connection Between Water Resources and Wildlife

A photo essay from Botswana, Africa

Polluted waters off Imperial Beach. Photo: WILDCOAST

Coastal Water Pollution Transfers to the Air in Sea Spray Aerosol and Reaches People on Land

Scientists find bacteria, chemical compounds from coastal water pollution in sea spray aerosol along Imperial Beach

CDIP buoy near the Port of Los Angeles

An Explanation for Complex Tide and Wave Interplay

Marine traffic, coastal planning to benefit from improved forecasts in wave variation

Scripps Student Spotlight: Noel Gutierrez-Brizuela

Physical oceanography student researches extreme tropical weather and how swings in weather leave a persistent mark on the ocean

Mechanically generated wave bears down on research sensors at Kelly Slater Surf Ranch in Lemoore, Calif.

Scientists and Surf Organizations Confirm What Surfers Already Know

Study at Kelly Slater Wave Company Surf Ranch demonstrates that wind effects on breaking waves can significantly influence nearshore processes

Jeramy Dedrick

UC San Diego Graduate Students Honored for Their Commitment to Equity and Diversity

Scripps Oceanography climate sciences student Jeramy Dedrick inducted to this year’s Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

StartBlue Accelerator Booth at OiA Conference 2023

Blue Technology Gets a Major Showcase at Oceanology International Americas Conference

Scripps Oceanography scientists and leaders to feature ocean technology and startBlue accelerator throughout conference and exhibit

This ARM Mobile Facility—a series of containers outfitted with sophisticated atmospheric and meteorological sampling equipment—will operate from February 2023 to February 2024 in La Jolla, California, as part of the Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE). The EPCAPE campaign will explore aerosol indirect effects on stratocumulus clouds to help improve their representation in earth system models. Researchers will also investigate how pollution from the nearby Los Angeles metropolitan

Scripps Pier, UC San Diego Mount Soledad Facility to Host Coastal Marine Cloud Study

Year-long field campaign launches Feb. 15 to study the marine clouds that shade and cool the earth

Solitary zooid of Salpa thompsoni releases a chain of buds (blastozooids). Photo: Mike Stukel, Florida State University

SalpPOOP Study Highlights Biogeochemical Importance of Zooplankton Fecal Pellets

Blooms of marine organisms transfer loads of atmospheric carbon into the deep ocean

Austin Barnes measuring sand levels on Fort Hase Beach at the Kāne‘ohe Marine Corps Base. We will compare this data to previous surveys to determine seasonal and long-term erosion patterns and their impacts on flood vulnerability.

Improving Flood Forecasts on Reefy Shorelines

Scripps Coastal Processes Group extends reach across Pacific

Scripps Student Spotlight: Tricia Light

PhD student researches how ocean life affects global climate

A visualization from space of the “Godzilla” dust storm on June 18, 2020, when desert dust traveled from the Sahara to North America. A UCLA-led study finds that an increase in microscopic dust in the atmosphere has concealed the full extent of greenhouse gases’ potential for warming the planet. Image: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

Increased Atmospheric Dust has Masked Power of Greenhouse Gases to Warm Planet

Study finds increasing levels of dust likely had cooling effect that slowed global warming, which could speed up if dust stops increasing

pink waves

Pink Dye Experiment to Reveal Mysteries of Coastal Ocean Dynamics

Scripps Oceanography-led PiNC experiment uses non-toxic pink dye and a suite of instruments to study the coastal zone where a river meets the ocean

Eelpout fish

New Species of Deep-Sea Fish Discovered off Costa Rica

Scripps Oceanography researchers describe Pyrolycus jaco, a newly identified species of eelpout living in a hydrothermal seep in the deep ocean

Margaret Leinen Awarded Scientist of the Year by ARCS San Diego

Distinguished Scripps Oceanography leader selected by the ARCS Foundation as 2023 Scientist of the Year

Standing in front of his tent, Austin Carter endures a windstorm in the Allan Hills in 2019.

Probing Antarctica by Land, Sea, Air, and from Earth Orbit

Scripps Oceanography research agenda ranges from microscopic organisms to ancient ice and studying ice sheet mass loss

Map highlighting countries surveyed by researchers studying links between climate change and childhood illness

Climate Change Exacerbating Gastrointestinal Problems in Children

Extreme weather events associated with diarrhea-related illness, death

California aqueduct next to almond farms

Scripps Climate Program Renewed with New Focus on Adaptation

$5 million in NOAA funding will support California Nevada Adaptation Program

Anela Akiona

Scripps Student Spotlight: Anela Akiona

PhD student and COP27 delegate from Waimānalo, Hawaiʻi focuses on coral reef ecology and how human intervention can help reefs be more resilient to climate change

From left, UNAM researchers Miche Martini and Jose Duque examine dredged rocks with Scripps' Peter Lonsdale during 2012 cruise

Scientists Propose New Theory for How Continents Form

Rocks dredged from seafloor tell story of a dynamic Earth process

A WC-130J Super Hercules aircraft from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron sits on the flightline prior to an atmospheric river mission Jan. 28, 2020 at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. The Hurricane Hunters performed “AR recon” from January through March 2020.

Atmospheric River Reconnaissance Flight Season Gets an Early Start this Winter

Air Force and NOAA aircraft collecting data over the Pacific from November to March

New research shows people, wildlife, and marine environment benefit when island-ocean connections are restored

A research and conservation collaboration highlights rewilding islands and breaking down artificial silos for big marine and terrestrial gains

Researchers collect a sediment core from a mangrove forest

Scientists Dig into Sediments for Clues on Carbon Storage

From San Diego to the Galapagos Islands and beyond, Scripps Oceanography researchers are revealing the mysteries of carbon sequestration in aquatic ecosystems

Scripps Student Spotlight: Benjamin Gruber

Geology and geochemistry PhD student researching rocks, how volcanoes form, and how continental crust is made on planets other than Earth

Denise Alcantara, third from right, with other members of the Scripps Oceanography contingent at COP27

Reflections on COP27 from a First-Time Delegate

Denise Alcantara one of 20 UCSD students at international climate negotiation

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