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Bermuda 100 Challenge: Preserving Shipwrecks, Pixel by Pixel

March 27, 2017

Researchers at QI, in cooperation with the government of Bermuda, have announced the launch of the Bermuda 100 Challenge, an ambitious campaign to digitally document at least 100 ships, artifacts and other sites in Bermuda’s shallow reefs.

UC San Diego Celebrates Oldest Living Alumnus Walter Munk as He Turns 100

October 12, 2017

…Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology, a collaboration between Scripps and UC San Diego’s Department of Anthropology to study the influence of marine environments on human cultures. Additionally, he’s part of a collaborative team at Scripps working on long-term ocean monitoring systems in the Arctic, and he’s currently conducting research to…

Where Will a Fulbright Award Take You?

March 9, 2023

The Fulbright Award is a prestigious national scholarship that blends adventure with discovery and peacemaking, with a wide variety of opportunities for nearly all Tritons to travel the world and make an impact through teaching, studying, working or conducting research.

Code and Community: Computational Social Science Program Addresses Social Questions with Data

January 30, 2024

UC San Diego is now offering a one-year master of science degree in CSS, as well as a PhD specialization and a minor for interested students.

Fieldwork in a Changing Field

October 18, 2018

…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 her to abandon that notion. Along this coast, people migrating from modern-day Venezuela or Colombia once settled 2,200 years ago. They performed rituals…

Diving for the Bones of the Ice Age

June 11, 2020

…a research scientist and archaeologist with UC San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute (QI), and colleagues have studied their bones for the past eight years to learn more about the region’s history. “The abundance, diversity, and integrity of Late Pleistocene fossils from Hoyo Negro give us a unique opportunity to reconstruct animal…

Making the Past Present with Light, Warmth and a High-Tech Gaze

February 24, 2015

Late last year, two University of California, San Diego students set out for Florence, Italy, to diagnose a patient that had no prior medical record, couldn’t be poked or prodded in any way, and hadn’t been in prime condition for more than 800 years.

CARTA Maps Humanity’s Distinctive Evolution

February 17, 2022

…neuroscience and genomics to archaeology, primatology and linguistics. 2017 CARTA specialization field course group on their last day of the trip to East Africa, during a pre-dawn hike to a cliff to watch the sun rise. “Without CARTA, most of these experts would primarily be attending conferences in their own…

The Underwater Library at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

April 8, 2021

…Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology’s ties to the Geological Collections. Specimens and samples from each Collection are widely used in classrooms for many UC San Diego courses and are frequently on display at Birch Aquarium, such as the Oddities exhibit. An Antarctic giant sea spider collected in 1977 in McMurdo…

Tech Industry Visionaries Foresee “Internet of Everything” at Marconi Symposium

September 28, 2011

…crowd-sourcing to search for archaeological anomalies in satellite imagery depicting a remote region of Mongolia. The exercise was part of Lin’s larger endeavor to find the lost tomb of ancient Mongolian ruler Genghis Khan. Albert Yu-Min Lin Through a partnership with the National Geographic Society (which hosted the crowd-sourcing platform…

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