November 16, 2023
About 30 delegates from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the School of Global Policy and Strategy will be attending the 28th Conference of the Parties, or COP28, in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
January 6, 2025
Ramesh Rao, director of the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute, sits down with Shane Cybart, director of CalIT2 Riverside, for a wide-ranging discussion on quantum and other advanced computing methods.
August 11, 2022
…Ana winds, drought, and heat waves. The U.S. Department of the Interior via the Bureau of Reclamation and the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, the California Department of Water Resources, and the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) California—Nevada Climate Applications Program and the International Research Applications Program of the…
November 6, 2023
A group of the world’s leading ocean scientific, philanthropic, and other stakeholder organizations, led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, have come together to highlight the global ocean.
August 25, 2022
…Geophysicist Who Led First Wave of El Niño Forecasting and Foretold Demise of Western Reservoirs, Dies at 83 Tim Barnett, a research marine geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego who made climate models become reliable as predictive tools, died Aug. 12 at his home in San…
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.
March 14, 2013
…blended right in with waves of chatter from a throng of high school students from The Preuss School UCSD. Their March 1 visit was part of an immersion program to introduce Preuss students to the rich arts programs at UC San Diego. The students participate in tours, conversations with artists,…
June 5, 2014
…the physics of standing waves with a rope and vibrating plates sprinkled with sand, to explaining the Hubble Space Telescope’s Deep Field Survey, to finding out on a stovetop whether dissolved solids in boiled water escape with steam (if you’re wondering, they sometimes do). Her high-energy productions, sometimes illustrated with…
December 17, 2020
…colleagues, Dzieciuch is measuring heat content in the Arctic Ocean, comparing their data to that collected by a similar project done 25 years ago. The project is documenting rapid environmental changes there. Dhruv Grover, research faculty member at the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind. Grover’s DURIP award will support…
August 27, 2020
…El Niño, shorter-term marine heat waves in the summers of 2018 and 2019, and northward extensions of pelagic red crabs and pyrosomes to Northern California and Oregon. CalCOFI has provided important—and sometimes the first—measurements of these evolving events, particularly of planktonic and larval fish communities. Spring 2020 passed under our…
