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Navy Selects Shipyard to Build Scripps’ New State-of-the-art Research Vessel

February 28, 2012

…next chapter in ocean exploration for Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. The new research vessel will be owned by ONR for the Department of the Navy and operated by Scripps under charter party agreement.

Surprise, Surprise: Subsurface Water on Mars Defies Expectations

August 18, 2022

…of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. Wright and three co-authors published their analysis in Geophysical Research Letters on August 9. “These findings don’t preclude that there could be grains of ice or small balls of ice that are not cementing other minerals together,” said…

Human Causes Only Plausible Source of Warming in Southern Ocean

September 24, 2018

…at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and colleagues used data from a global network of data-gathering ocean floats known as Argo and pre-Argo records, along with a climate model, to attribute warming trends in the Southern Ocean to human-caused climate change including greenhouse gas…

Genetics Breakthrough in Sea Urchins to Aid in Biomedical Research

June 6, 2022

Marine biologists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have created a line of sea urchins whose genetic makeup is fully mapped and can be edited to study human disease genes. The creation of these new research model organisms will accelerate the pace of marine biomedical research.

Three UC San Diego Professors Named AAAS Fellows

November 24, 2014

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general science organization in the United States, has awarded the distinction of Fellow to three UC San Diego professors.

Scientists Discover New Method of Communication in Crabs

September 11, 2019

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the University of California Berkeley have discovered a new method of communication in the Atlantic ghost crab, Ocypode quadrata.

Study Pinpoints Cellular Response to Pressure in Sea Star Embryos

May 7, 2024

…shape. Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, and the Institute of Biomedicine in Seville (IBiS) in Spain led the research, which is novel for its use of sea star embryos as model organisms in this context.

UC San Diego Raises $148.3 Million in Private Support

November 20, 2014

…and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. More than 1,200 donors contributed $131 million to the Jacobs Medical Center. Included in the total are gifts that matched an anonymous donation of $25 million, meeting the Challenge goal of the initiative. Businessman and philanthropist T. Denny Sanford committed $100 million for the creation…

Scientists Dig into Sediments for Clues on Carbon Storage

December 2, 2022

UC San Diego researchers have been studying sediment to better understand how mangrove ecosystems sequester carbon dioxide, a planet-warming greenhouse gas. A new study describes Scripps Oceanography-led work to examine more than 100 sediment cores from mangrove forests across Latin America.

Researchers: El Niño is Here, But Impact Still Difficult to Predict

December 3, 2015

…the public from Scripps Oceanography, National Weather Service, state Department of Water Resources draws a packed house El Niño, the climate pattern primarily characterized by a warmer-than-average eastern Pacific Ocean, has definitely taken shape off the shores of San Diego. It has brought with it many of its classic calling…

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