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Birch Fellows Create Immersive Experience for New R/V Sally Ride Gallery

October 20, 2016

…at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, visitors will be immersed in real-time ocean science. Three large-scale video screens will cover one wall of the gallery, showcasing footage from recent Scripps Oceanography expeditions. Interactive stations will invite students and adults alike to engage with real scientific samples—for instance, photos of zooplankton collected…

Scientists Publish 37-Year Record of Ocean Acidification off Southern California

November 27, 2023

For the first time, scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have published nearly four decades’ worth of dissolved carbon dioxide measurements from waters off Southern California.

Adrianus Kalmijn: 1933-2021

December 16, 2021

Adrianus J. Kalmijn, a biologist and physicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego who pioneered the study of electromagnetics in shark sensory functions, died Dec. 7, 2021, at the age of 88.

“Bizarre” Yoda Acorn Worm Makes Top 10 Marine Species List

March 23, 2023

A team of marine scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego described a new acorn worm species, Yoda demiankoopi, in a paper published in 2022. Now the deep-sea worm is among the top 10 new marine species acknowledged by the World Register of Marine Species.

Scripps SCUBA DIVERsity Fellowship Helps Train Scientific Divers

May 1, 2024

The SCUBA DIVERsity Fellowship program, launched in 2022, increases access to scuba training for students who want to contribute to research and explore the ocean but face cultural, physical, emotional or financial barriers to joining the dive community.

Tim Barnett, Scripps Geophysicist Dies at 83

August 25, 2022

…at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego who made climate models become reliable as predictive tools, died Aug. 12 at his home in San Diego, Calif. He was 83. Barnett was already established as a pioneer who incorporated mathematics and statistical methodology into seasonal forecasts when in 2008,…

Birch Aquarium Announces Living Seas Transformation

August 22, 2024

…at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego today announced Living Seas, a reimagined exhibition that will replace the aquarium’s famed Hall of Fishes next summer. The exhibition, the largest capital improvement since the aquarium was built in 1992, invites guests to journey through the Pacific Ocean in order…

Satellite Record Gives Unprecedented View of Antarctic Ice Shelf Melt Pattern over 25 Years

August 10, 2020

Researchers from Scripps Oceanography and colleagues reviewed 25 years of satellite data and computer models to find that ice shelves have experienced a loss of nearly 4,000 gigatons since 1994 as a result of melting from increased heat in the ocean under them.

Tethered for Months to Floating Sea Ice, Scripps Researchers Join Largest-Ever International Arctic

January 16, 2020

…Jeff Bowman/Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Tethered for Months to Floating Sea Ice, Scripps Researchers Join Largest-Ever International Arctic Expedition Biological oceanographers believe the Arctic’s tiniest creatures may answer the biggest climate change questions Two researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego are about to…

Antarctic Ice Shelves Rapidly Thinning

March 26, 2015

…by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego researchers has revealed that the thickness of Antarctica’s floating ice shelves has recently decreased by as much as 18 percent in certain areas over nearly two decades, providing new insights on how the Antarctic ice sheet is responding to climate change.

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