June 6, 2019
…in the Amazon and monitor crop health for future food security. The Human Rights Watch even uses space data to monitor loss of life and environmental damage during catastrophic events. “Satellites are such a powerful tool in telling us how our world is changing,” Munguia said. “And I love that…
May 12, 2016
…make positive, real-world change. Monitoring Global Reef Health Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist David Kline will have unique access to images with resolution greater than 50 centimeters as part of research he is leading associated with the Big Pixel Initiative. Higher-resolution satellite imagery may allow for direct monitoring and mapping…
May 11, 2017
…Analysis reveals that grizzlies continue to forage for declining whitebark pine seeds Climate change is altering the environment in Yellowstone National Park and its surrounding region, and scientists at the University of California San Diego and Unity College are studying the impacts on the diets of threatened grizzly bears. A…
October 15, 2020
Keeling Curve Receives Continuation Funding from Eric and Wendy Schmidt $1.45M grants support Keeling Curve, ocean pH programs, key indicators of global warming Wendy and Eric Schmidt. Photo by Spencer Brown. The Keeling Curve carbon dioxide measurement—the long-term atmospheric measurement that alerted the world to human-induced climate change—will receive $1…
October 17, 2019
…among them. Geisel Library monitoring At the very heart of campus, the Geisel Library is not only an architectural gem—it is also a testing ground for monitoring structural health over time and after earthquakes. An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Qualcomm Institute and Jacobs School of…
May 20, 2021
…campus community, decisions will continue to be guided by the science, data and modeling that made the Return to Learn program a success. This phased return also provides an opportunity to reimagine how we work going forward. In the spirit of continuous improvement, vice chancellors are thoughtfully considering how to…
May 31, 2023
In the first-ever “before and after” assessment of the impact of establishing Mexico’s Revillagigedo National Park on the fishing industry, a team of U.S. and Mexican researchers found that Mexico’s industrial fishing sector did not incur economic losses five years after the park’s creation.
May 5, 2020
Program makes COVID-19 testing available to thousands of students in effort to track the novel coronavirus and better position the campus to resume in-person activities in the fall.
July 8, 2019
UC San Diego will launch a payload of stem cell-derived human brain organoids to the International Space Station. Researchers will document how these “mini brains” organize into the beginnings of a functional brain with implications for the future of human life in space.
November 1, 2017
Spanning two years, from March 2015 to February 2017, CAIDA researchers and their collaborators found that about one-third of the IPv4 address space was subject to some kind of DoS attacks, where a perpetrator maliciously disrupts services of a host connected to the internet.
