Scripps graduate student Maya Becker (bottom right), colleagues prepare to deploy an ALAMO float near Ross Ice Shelf, 2016.

Ross Sea Floats Show Why Antarctica’s Largest Ice Shelf Melts Rapidly in Summer

Diatoms like these produce superoxide in their watery surroundings for reasons that have remained mysterious until now

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The 2017 Thomas Fire. Photo: istockphoto/Carsten Schertzer

Study Bolsters Case that Climate Change Is Driving Many California Wildfires

Water flows through Oroville Dam spillway, April 2019. Photo: Calif. Dept. of Water Resources

Atmospheric Rivers to Become Even More Dominant Source of California Water Resources and Flooding

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Scripps graduate student Maya Becker (bottom right), colleagues prepare to deploy an ALAMO float near Ross Ice Shelf, 2016.

Ross Sea Floats Show Why Antarctica’s Largest Ice Shelf Melts Rapidly in Summer
Warming of adjacent ocean surface waters main cause of melt in austral summer
Arctic winter sea ice extent in 1980 (left) and 2012. Image: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

Research Highlight: Loss of Arctic's Reflective Sea Ice Will Advance Global Warming by 25 Years
Fast mitigation may still avoid complete loss of sea ice
Diatoms like these produce superoxide in their watery surroundings for reasons that have remained mysterious until now

A Toxic Chemical in Marine Ecosystems Turns Out to Play a Beneficial Role
Reactive oxygen species associated with cellular damage actually aid photosynthesis, according to study
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Arctic winter sea ice extent in 1980 (left) and 2012. Image: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

Research Highlight: Loss of Arctic's Reflective Sea Ice Will Advance Global Warming by 25 Years
Fast mitigation may still avoid complete loss of sea ice

Photo of the Week: Surveying into the Sunset
Scripps field group tracks beach erosion, sand movement

Water flows through Oroville Dam spillway, April 2019. Photo: Calif. Dept. of Water Resources

Research Highlight: Atmospheric Rivers to Become Even More Dominant Source of California Water
Research projects atmospheric rivers will strengthen, bringing greater proportion of annual precipitation

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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

Scripps graduate student Audrey Tan.

Scripps Student Spotlight: Audrey Tan
Climate Science and Policy graduate student is researching how El Niño impacts lives and biodiversity across the Pacific Ocean

Scripps graduate student Travis Courtney. Photo by Lark Starkey.

Scripps Student Spotlight: Travis Courtney
Geosciences graduate student is researching how climate change is affecting coral reef structures

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Scripps in the News | Coverage of Scripps

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
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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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