November 16, 2023
About 30 delegates from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the School of Global Policy and Strategy will be attending the 28th Conference of the Parties, or COP28, in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
February 2, 2023
New research links fivefold increases in carbon absorption to salp prevalence in the uppermost reaches of the ocean. It is thus a key natural process that mitigates the effects of fossil fuel use and other activities contributing to climate change.
March 9, 2017
…Engineering, the Division of Biological Sciences, the Division of Social Sciences, and the School of Global Policy and Strategy. “Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been at the forefront of modern climate change research and now we are entering a new age in which we must provide science-backed solutions to the…
October 23, 2023
Researchers have developed soft yet durable 3D-printed materials that glow in response to mechanical stress, such as compression, stretching or twisting. The materials derive their luminescence from single-celled algae known as dinoflagellates, which are embedded within the materials.
March 8, 2018
…bioluminescent jellyfish at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and first identified the green fluorescent protein (GFP) that helps it glow. Douglas Prasher, also working at Woods Hole at the time, then isolated the gene that encodes GFP. Prasher sent the gene to Martin Chalfie at Columbia University,…
July 18, 2012
This year, for the first time, external funding for sponsored research by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego exceeds $150 million (excluding ARRA* funding). Such funding arises from innovations and ideas of Scripps scientists and researchers who perform initial exploration of the concepts and compete in…
January 8, 2024
As part of ongoing efforts to understand the scale of the environmental impact from industrial waste dumping off the coast of Southern California, researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography revisited two industrial undersea dumpsites in April 2023.
November 15, 2018
…select from majors in biology, chemistry, earth sciences, English, math, philosophy and physics. From the very beginning, UC San Diego was designed to be different. The university was officially established on Nov. 18, 1960. Since that time, it has maintained a spirit of curiosity and a desire to look deeper.…
August 8, 2023
UNESCO has awarded a team of researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History and UC San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute and Scripps Institution of Oceanography for their efforts protecting underwater cultural heritage sites.
June 1, 2023
When we reached out to UC San Diego’s graduating students, we posed many questions. One of the most important – who at the university made a difference in your life? The result was an outpouring of love for various students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
