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Deep-Sea Biodiversity Impacted by Climate Change’s Triple Threat

April 27, 2016

A new study found that vulnerability of deep-sea biodiversity to climate change’s triple threat – rising water temperatures, and decreased oxygen, and pH levels – is not uniform across the world’s oceans.

A Wave’s “Sweet Spot” Revealed

June 29, 2017

For surfers, finding the “sweet spot,” the most powerful part of the wave, is part of the thrill and the challenge. Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California postdoctoral researcher Nick Pizzo has found the exact location on the wave where a surfer gains the greatest speed to…

Sustainable method to 3D print steel wins big at Triton Innovation Challenge

May 26, 2021

A startup developing a 3D printing technique that can manufacture steel cheaper than existing methods, with no carbon emissions and minimal wasted scrap metal, earned the $7,000 Grand Prize at the Triton Innovation Challenge.

New Faculty Represent Campus’s Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding and Protecting the Planet

March 9, 2017

…a new chapter of climate change research, one in which the reality of the problem has been established and the focus has shifted to what some describe as “managing the unavoidable and avoiding the unmanageable”—or climate change impacts and adaptation. The new professors will pursue the concept of understanding and…

Thinking Globally to Address the Impact of Climate Change on Human Health

November 29, 2022

UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science and the Jordan University of Science and Technology are leading an international consortium to implement climate change and health research, training and policies in the Eastern Mediterranean region.

Deforestation Drives Disease, Climate Change and It’s Happening at a Rapid Rate

April 23, 2020

…iStock.com/Harvepino Deforestation Drives Disease, Climate Change and It’s Happening at a Rapid Rate Conserving forests does not just save trees; it saves lives in the short and long-term says researcher Deforestation is not an issue dominating headlines in the U.S. right now, but Teevrat Garg, an assistant professor of economics…

Reaching for the Sky

March 7, 2013

…live and learn about climate change and ways to conserve, reuse and recycle. “Sustainability is part of UC San Diego’s institutional DNA, inherited from our founders and early scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography,” said UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. “UC San Diego has transformed into a living…

New, High-resolution Climate Projections Aim to Better Represent Extreme Events

September 12, 2016

A collaboration of university researchers, government agencies, and private sector groups released today a next-generation climate modeling dataset with improved local-scale climate projections covering the 21st century for a region from northern Mexico to southern Canada.

UC San Diego Chemistry Professor Wins Prestigious California Air Resources Board Honor

May 16, 2016

…of atmospheric aerosols and their impacts on atmospheric chemistry, climate, and the hydrologic cycle.”

Change Agent

February 26, 2015

…production’s footprint on global climate change Fieldwork has led Burney to develop technologies to help farmers in Africa adapt to climate change. She helped develop solar irrigation systems that enable African farmers to grow more fruits and vegetables year round. Photo by Lennart Woltering What are some unforeseen damages caused…

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