May 14, 2024
UC San Diego has once again been named No. 7 among U.S. public universities in the latest Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), upholding its position from the previous year.
August 27, 2024
A team of science-minded kayakers and snorkelers in La Jolla Cove had the encounter of a lifetime when a dead oarfish washed to the ocean surface on Aug.10, 2024. This deep-sea fish is incredibly rare, and marks only the 20th oarfish documented to have washed up in California since 1901.…
November 15, 2011
…the past half-century – DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, the ozone hole, and global warming – Oreskes and Conway reveal a historical pattern in which a small group of science advisors undermine scientific findings and raise doubt about the work of scientific experts.” Ed Larson, chair of the Davis Prize…
November 21, 2024
Seventy-five years ago, a group of California scientists was tasked with a mission. CalCOFI is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the program that has delivered is priceless in understanding the ocean off of California.
April 8, 2021
…after the discovery of DDT waste barrels off the coast of Southern California. Because Scripps and CalCOFI maintain a collection of biological specimens pulled from the ocean at known locations across space and time for the better part of a century, the program has the potential to broach historical samples…
June 30, 2022
…on the presence of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane—DDT, a powerful insecticide—and other undersea pollutants. Instead of having to deploy individual buoys with sensors inside on a routine basis, their sponsor wanted one large system that would contain multiple buoys with sensors, reducing the down time required to collect the buoy, gather the information,…
December 9, 2021
…of barrels at a DDT dumpsite off the Los Angeles coast. Now that the area has been extensively mapped, researchers are hopeful the data will inform the development of strategies to address potential impacts from the dumping. The power of philanthropy Research isn’t the only area in which the university…
