February 20, 2020
A long-feared scenario in which global warming causes Arctic permafrost to melt and release enough greenhouse gas to accelerate warming and cause catastrophe probably won’t happen. Researchers conclude that even if methane is released from permafrost, very little actually reaches the atmosphere.
April 15, 2021
In December 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light. Deep inside the ice sheet at the South Pole, it smashed into an electron and produced a particle that quickly decayed into a shower of secondary particles.
March 1, 2018
…Southern Ocean that rings Antarctica is the regular site of giant storms well known to ship captains and pilots who traverse the region. Its remoteness and inhospitable nature mean that few comprehensive observations of its clouds and atmospheric conditions exist. That same remoteness, however, also means that Southern Ocean clouds…
August 15, 2019
Two years ago this summer, the institute’s immersive virtual reality system morphed from the StarCAVE into the SunCAVE. Its physical shape changed, as did the technology running it. Today, it’s a powerful computing system that can process massive amounts of data from all over the world.
July 6, 2021
Researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo recently teamed with colleagues at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Tufts University to publish a special issue paper entitled Building a Glaciology Gateway to Unify a Community
January 6, 2016
A team of scientists including geochemists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is launching a series of research flights this month over the remote Southern Ocean in an effort to better understand just how much carbon dioxide the icy waters are able to lock away.
April 4, 2016
University of California, San Diego Department of Visual Arts Professor Lisa Cartwright has spent her career working across different disciplines.
November 20, 2014
…Atacama desert and in Antarctica, or more precisely, the South Pole, “the coldest, driest, highest continent on earth, ideal for obtaining images of the distant universe.” “What we’re trying to do,” Keating said, “is uncover what the universe looked like a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a…
January 19, 2023
Both astrophysicist and educator, David Lesser is drawing on his varied background at the Qualcomm Institute to direct the Makerspace, an open access workshop area in UC San Diego’s Design and Innovation Building.
January 21, 2021
…emperor penguins. She visited Antarctica several times over the course of her Ph.D. program to study the penguins both above and below the ice. Photo by Cassondra Williams.M/p> The accomplished astronaut forged a path from STEM to the stars after completing a graduate program at Scripps Oceanography, where her research…
