Justin Funa is a student in the Master of Advanced Studies program in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (MAS MBC) at ...

A special symposium honoring Margaret Leinen, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and her contributions to the field of oceanography was held at the Scripps Seaside Forum ...

Coral larvae are picky about where they attach and settle down. One of the ways they decide is by “smelling” chemicals in the ...

Diego Melgar earned his PhD in geophysics from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in 2014. He came to Scripps in search of cutting-edge earthquake science — and found not only ...

In 2020, more than 350 African savanna elephants mysteriously died in Botswana’s Seronga region in just two months. Many of ...

Researchers from several University of California campuses have collaborated to create a report on dust in California, a characteristic that defines the desert climate zone that encompasses most of ...

Image caption: The Argo program collects data vital to global weather forecasting and developing seasonal scale forecasts like El Niño and La Niña, for producing drought forecasts across the U.S., and ...

A team of science-minded kayakers and snorkelers in La Jolla Cove had the encounter of a lifetime when a dead oarfish washed to the ocean surface on Aug. 10, 2024. This deep-sea fish is incredibly ...

While seeking to unravel how marine algae create their chemically complex toxins, scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have discovered the largest protein yet identified in ...

Large-scale ocean circulation requires deep water to rise to the surface, but this upwelling had never been directly observed – until now Image caption: A special high-speed winch that the researchers ...