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 ...

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 ...

More than 90% of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contained an introduced parasite capable of infecting humans, according to a new study from researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps ...

The 120-mile Tijuana River flows from Baja California into the United States and discharges millions of gallons of wastewater — including sewage, industrial waste and runoff — into the Pacific Ocean ...

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 ...

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 ...