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Atlantic Ocean Circulation Influenced by Tropical Indian Ocean Warming Trends, Say Researchers

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Scientists Find Key Changes in Gray Whale Migration Routes off Southern California

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Imaged in satellite overflights, monsoon clouds fed by warm Indian Ocean spread over India. Photo: NASA

Atlantic Ocean Circulation Influenced by Tropical Indian Ocean Warming Trends, Say Researchers
Effect could be maintaining the strength of a key European climate driver

Biochemist Jennifer Doudna to Receive 2019 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest
Genomics researcher and co-discoverer of CRISPR-Cas9 will deliver a free public lecture at Scripps Oceanography Oct. 7

Scientists Discover New Method of Communication in Crabs
Ghost crabs use structure in their stomach to communicate when agitated
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Research Highlight: Scientists Find Key Changes in Gray Whale Migration Routes off Southern California
Increasing numbers of gray whales migrating closer to shore could put whales at risk for ship strikes, entanglements, and pollution

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Master's student Jessica Sportelli on a Zodiac in the Churchill River in Canada.

Scripps Student Spotlight: Jessica Sportelli
Marine biology master’s student is studying whale acoustics to identify why killer whales are migrating to new places

Drake Singleton examines the surface rupture of the recent 7.1-magnitude earthquake near Ridgecrest, Calif. Photo: Nick Lau

Scripps Student Spotlight: Drake Singleton
Geophysics graduate student conducts research to understand earthquakes and active faults in Southern California

Daria Sheik near Flores Island, British Columbia while researching grey whales.

Scripps Student Spotlight: Daria Sheik
Marine Biodiversity and Conservation graduate student is working to develop an app to connect conservation organizations and researchers with people across the world

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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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Multidecadal increase in plastic particles in coastal ocean sediments
Science Advances
Sep 04, 2019
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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