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New mapping of earthquake density reveals hundreds of thousands of small earthquakes. Image: Science

Scientists Identify Almost 2 Million Previously "Hidden" Earthquakes

Ocean Tunnel Pop-Up Art Installation on View at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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Advanced Virtual Technology Captures How Coral Reefs Recover After Bleaching

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Rapid Global Switch to Renewable Energy Can Save Millions of Lives Annually

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Scripps marine ecologist Jennifer Smith has been cultivating Asparagopsis taxiformis seaweed. Photo: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego

Around the Pier: Usurp the Burp
How seaweed could help curb cow burps—one of California’s greatest sources of methane emissions
New mapping of earthquake density reveals hundreds of thousands of small earthquakes. Image: Science

Scientists Identify Almost 2 Million Previously "Hidden" Earthquakes
A closer look at seismic data from 2008–17 reveals 10 times as many Southern California earthquakes

Ocean Tunnel Pop-Up Art Installation on View at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Interactive exhibit immerses visitors in the changing oceans, will be on view until April 30
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Scripps marine ecologist Jennifer Smith has been cultivating Asparagopsis taxiformis seaweed. Photo: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego

Around the Pier: Usurp the Burp
How seaweed could help curb cow burps—one of California’s greatest sources of methane emissions

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An encounter at Birch Aquarium at Scripps exhibit

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Scripps graduate student Allison Cusick

Scripps Student Spotlight: Allison Cusick
Oceanography graduate student is researching how water from melting glaciers affects phytoplankton in the Arctic and Antarctic

Daniel Conley and other Scripps students conduct field work aboard R/V Robert Gordon Sproul. Photo: Cody Gallo

Scripps Student Spotlight: Daniel Conley
Marine biology graduate student is studying how corals react to different environmental conditions

Scripps graduate student Ariel Pezner

Scripps Student Spotlight: Ariel Pezner
Biological oceanography graduate student is studying the effects of human-induced stressors on reef-building corals

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Scripps Institution Scientists Study Imperial Beach As Sea Level Rises
KPBS
Jan 29, 2019
Love Snow? Here’s How It’s Changing
Scientific American
Jan 28, 2019
Bizarre deep-sea fish found living with ‘virtually no oxygen’
New York Post
Jan 22, 2019
Bizarre deep-sea fish living in Gulf of California with 'virtually no oxygen' puzzles biologists
Fox News
Jan 21, 2019
Scripps' new program forecast Imperial Beach flooding, helped city brace for impact
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Jan 18, 2019
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Nourishment evolution and impacts at four southern California beaches: A sand volume analysis
Science Direct
Jun 01, 2018
The Race Is on to Mine and Protect the Deep Seafloor
Scientific American
May 01, 2018
Translucent soft robots driven by frameless fluid electrode dielectric elastomer actuators
Science Robotics
Apr 25, 2018
Unexplained interannual oscillations of cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic Sea
Scientific Reports
Apr 23, 2018

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