August 17, 2026
August 17, 2026 —
A specialized camera allowed researchers to discover large phytoplankton that would have been nearly impossible to detect using conventional methods. The discovery changes how scientists understand the ocean's food web.
August 11, 2026
August 11, 2026 —
New World screwworm flies, highly destructive parasitic insects, have returned to parts of the U.S. and pose a significant danger. Professor Omar Akbari discusses how the insect was eliminated in the past and the ways new genetics technologies could help combat today’s threat.
August 4, 2026
August 4, 2026 —
UC San Diego students are bridging GIS and machine learning to solve real-world challenges in public health and urban planning. In a new spatial analysis course, they analyze complex geospatial data to identify environmental risks and support smarter community decision-making.
July 28, 2026
July 28, 2026 —
Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists recently led a paper that documents how juvenile great white sharks responded to Tropical Storm Hilary in August 2023. When the storm hit, many sharks abandoned their San Diego nursery site for calmer waters, returning shortly after the storm passed.
July 20, 2026
July 20, 2026 —
The new partnership is designed to jointly develop cutting-edge genomic tools for addressing large-scale challenges in health and the environment. The partnership combines research strengths in environmental and marine science, engineering and computer science and biomedical and life sciences.
July 16, 2026
July 16, 2026 —
A new review paper led by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography warns that the rapid loss of oxygen from the ocean and other aquatic ecosystems is pushing Earth toward an “unsafe space,” with consequences that could be irreversible on human timescales.
July 14, 2026
July 14, 2026 —
Scripps Oceanography researchers and colleagues found that deep ocean turbulence affects our lives not on a scale of thousands of years as was previously thought, but within the span of a human lifetime.
July 9, 2026
July 9, 2026 —
Following a four-year study, scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography released a new report to determine if an early warning system could potentially detect a landslide before it happens.
July 8, 2026
July 8, 2026 —
A 2019 Australian bushfire provided a case study enabling researchers to consider whether the geoengineering technique called marine cloud brightening could diminish the destructive effects of major El Niño events in the future.
July 7, 2026
July 7, 2026 —
A comprehensive study of more than 1,100 springs in the American West warns that critical biodiversity hotspots are facing a mounting extinction crisis.
