January 17, 2023
January 17, 2023 —
More than half a dozen scientists from Scripps Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center will be venturing to Antarctica for the 2022-23 field season.
December 7, 2022
December 7, 2022 —
An expanded Atmospheric River Reconnaissance program began last month as a result of the unexpected “bomb cyclone” in October 2021 that hit North America’s West Coast, followed by another atmospheric river less than a month later that caused severe flooding in Washington.
August 18, 2022
August 18, 2022 —
A new analysis of seismic data from NASA’s Mars InSight mission has revealed a couple of surprises. The first surprise: the top 300 meters of the subsurface beneath the landing site near the Martian equator contains little or no ice.
July 7, 2022
July 7, 2022 —
A new 10-year study from Palmyra Atoll in the remote central Pacific Ocean shows that reefs outside the reach of local human impacts can recover from bleaching.
April 20, 2022
April 20, 2022 —
Scripps' Daniel Blatter and three co-authors report in the April 20 issue of Nature that streams of heated rocks called mantle plumes probably play a role in creating a slippery base for tectonic plates.
March 11, 2022
March 11, 2022 —
Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have discovered a novel molecular process that corals use to control the subcellular environment of the algae that live inside them.
