In my role as a staff research associate at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, I spend time at sea about once a year deploying robotic floats with biogeochemical sensors. The floats ...

Rhowan Ho is a first-year master's student in marine biology with a focus on parasitology and science communication at ...

An international study estimates that scuba diving contributes between $8.5 and $20.4 billion to the global economy each year ...

Some corals produce chemicals called diterpenoids that have shown promise in fighting cancer and reducing inflammation, but researchers have been unable to study the chemicals in depth. The problem is ...

For the first time, the seasonal peak of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere exceeded 430 parts per million (ppm) at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory on Hawaii, scientists from NOAA and ...

The devastating fires in Los Angeles have numerous secondary effects as scientists are finding out now off the coast of Southern California.Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...

This year’s rainy season is underway, which means atmospheric rivers are set to dump rain and snow across California and the Pacific Northwest.

The toxic pesticide DDT was dumped into the ocean off Southern California more than 50 years ago, and it is still contaminating fish and sediments in the region decades later, according to researchers ...

California Politics. Literature and the Environment. Natural Disasters. These are just a few of the courses at UC San Diego that will fulfill its new climate change education requirement—the first of ...

In September 2023, scientists around the world detected a mysterious seismic signal that lasted for nine straight days. An international team of scientists, including seismologists Alice Gabriel and ...

Haga clic aquí para leer en español The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography to receive a four-year, $10 million grant funded by the Paul G.

This summer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego welcomed a group of motivated undergraduate students from across the country who were selected to participate in the 2024 Jane Teranes ...