University of California San Diego today announced the appointment of Meenakshi Wadhwa to the position of Vice Chancellor for ...

Coral reefs, like research communities, face disturbances, but their response to major change determines their perseverance.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography offers instruction leading to Master of Science (M.S.) degrees in oceanography, marine biology, and earth sciences.

Fish make hanging motionless in the water column look effortless, and scientists had long assumed hovering was a type of rest ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

The Cooperative Institute for Marine Ecosystems and Climate (CIMEC) is a partnership of ocean, climate and ecosystem research between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and ...

CASPO is a research unit of Scripps Institution of Oceanography where scientists engage in a wide variety of scientific topics involving mainly the physical ocean-atmosphere system, but including many ...

A department of UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography is one of the oldest, largest, and most important centers for ocean, earth and atmospheric science research, education, and public ...

Why is oxygen important for the ocean, and what is ocean deoxygenation? Oxygen is important in the ocean for the same reasons it is important on land; the plants and animals that live there require ...

Scripps-related research into and information about the chemical dumpsite off the shore of Southern California.

Image caption: Example munitions surveyed by the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) during the 2023 seafloor survey of the San Pedro Basin. Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UC San Diego. As ...

The Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier is an icon of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a vital research facility. Spanning 1,084 feet in length, this cherished La Jolla landmark ...