October 18, 2018
…including the 1998 Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) experiment in the Beaufort Sea. Fieldwork in a Changing Field Now that the future researchers predicted is here, climate change is changing how science is done On Puerto Rico’s northern coast, oceanfront homes in Barceloneta rest on a narrow…
July 16, 2024
A dozen buildings on the University of California San Diego campus. All of the campus’ solar panels. All the chargers for electric vehicles. More than 2,400 light fixtures. More than 800 smart plugs. These are some of the assets that DERConnect, a NSF-funded testbed for the powergrid, will be able…
May 14, 2024
Two teams led by scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography are among four selected by NASA to put forward concept studies for future satellite missions to help better understand how our planet is responding to climate change.
January 8, 2015
…presenting the danger of heat waves, titled “A Wave You Cannot Ride,” designed to support a natural disasters class taught by Scripps professor and geophysicist Gabi Laske. Soon after the heat wave project went live, Kwan and his team worked with Scripps seismologist Debi Kilb to create avatars for her…
June 13, 2013
…his groundbreaking investigations of wave propagation, tides, currents, circulation and other aspects of the ocean and Earth. The 95-year-old scientist is still active at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. His accomplishments have been recognized by a lengthy list of organizations from around the world. He won the…
March 16, 2023
A new study is providing an unprecedented examination of oxygen loss on coral reefs around the globe under ocean warming. Led by researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the study captures the current state of hypoxia—or low oxygen levels—at 32 different sites.
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).
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…
