March 23, 2017
…of Oceanography’s Charles David Keeling, who established the Keeling Curve in 1958. The first to measure and record atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, the Keeling Curve is now considered the most important geophysical measurement of the 20th century. “Today, faculty, students and staff across campus carry on this legacy through developing…
October 20, 2017
The University of California San Diego’s commitment to reducing energy use recently garnered the campus a first place award in the North American Laboratory Freezer Challenge. The nationwide best practice competition encourages laboratories to reduce the environmental and financial costs of ultra-low temperature freezers.
January 6, 2016
A team of scientists including geochemists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is launching a series of research flights this month over the remote Southern Ocean in an effort to better understand just how much carbon dioxide the icy waters are able to lock away.
April 12, 2018
…climate scientist Charles David Keeling all turned their passion for the planet into action—which is this year’s theme for Earth Month festivities at UC San Diego. The campus and local community are invited to join in a month-long series of events in April designed to celebrate these pioneering environmentalists and…
October 13, 2016
…by atmospheric scientists Ralph Keeling, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Kim Prather and Ray Weiss. Keeling is director of the Scripps CO2 Program, home of the famous Keeling Curve that continues to track carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. He and Weiss lead an effort to look at how data already being collected…
May 19, 2016
Ahead of the Curve From climate change to brain activity mapping to studies of the microbiome, the campus leads the way in global efforts with big payoffs for humanity From Left, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Rob Knight and Ralph Greenspan Two months before the historic climate agreement in Paris, where representatives from…
April 27, 2017
…Institution of Oceanography’s Ralph Keeling, a professor of geophysics and program director of the CO2 Program, the measurement program behind the Keeling Curve, which was started in 1958 by his father, Charles David Keeling. “The climate change debate has been over for decades,” Keeling said to the gathered crowd. “But…
May 20, 2016
The National Microbiome Initiative is one of many large-scale global and national research programs that UC San Diego has played a key role in developing. Two months before the historic climate negotiations held in December in Paris, for example, a smaller group of climate experts and politicians gathered at Scripps…
February 20, 2014
…as CalCOFI is the Keeling Curve, a measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels that has taken on icon status since it began in 1958. The steady and ultraprecise measurement has been the underpinning of much modern climate change research. Charles David Keeling, the namesake creator of the measurement series, also…
October 24, 2022
A piece of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego heritage re-emerged more than 60 years when a bottle deployed to measure current drift was discovered in June.
