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.
May 12, 2016
…The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently declared the third large-scale coral bleaching event in recorded history, however monitoring is slow, expensive and labor intensive. Enter the high-resolution satellites. Kline’s goal will be to determine if these bleaching episodes can be quantified by remote sensing, creating a “bleaching detection tool”…
October 18, 2018
…on the beach. Isabel Rivera-Collazo has been traveling to this location to perform research for nearly 25 years, since her days as a college student. An environmental archaeologist at UC San Diego, she has pursued her research operating under the maxim that archaeology doesn’t move. Now, recent events have caused…
April 22, 2021
…sea level, temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels are climbing, but what’s less clear is what that’s doing to our health Tarik Benmarhnia didn’t plan on ending up here, in an office overlooking the pier at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. As a young student in France, he started…
