February 1, 2024
For the first time, a Little Blue Penguin has hatched at Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. The chick made its debut on New Year’s Day in the aquarium’s Penguin Care and Conservation Center in Beyster Family Little Blue Penguins.
July 21, 2022
World’s Smallest Penguins Waddle into Birch Aquarium A Little Blue Penguin swims in the pool of its new habitat. Photos by Erik Jespen/University Communications. The world’s smallest penguins have officially made their big debut in San Diego. On July 12, the new Beyster Family Little Blue Penguins habitat opened to…
July 12, 2022
Excitement filled the air at Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego today as the first official guests gathered to experience Beyster Family Little Blue Penguins, the newest and most anticipated exhibit in the aquarium’s history.
October 20, 2022
Growing up in a rural Southern California town in the 1990s, Tammy Russell didn’t know any scientists, but she started dreaming about a future in marine science. Fast forward to 2022, and Russell is now living out her childhood dreams as a PhD student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
October 3, 2019
…deep-diving animals including emperor penguins in Antarctica and elephant seals in Northern California. A trained scientific diver, she studied emperor penguins above and below the ice in Antarctica during four research expeditions to the remote, icy continent. Space Research In an interview with This Week@UC San Diego several weeks before…
September 15, 2023
As Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego’s 30th year “on the hill” comes to a close, the aquarium has much to celebrate including its all-time attendance record as well as an historic number of scholarships.
October 10, 2011
…dioramas to live African penguins, exotic fish swimming overhead and a lush rainforest. “A Night in the Wild,” hosted by UCSD Alumni, was the best attended off-campus event yet, and the follow-up to last year’s successful and CASE Award-winning alumni celebration, “Night in Napa,” at the Castello di Amorosa Castle…
January 17, 2023
More than half a dozen scientists from Scripps Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center will be venturing to Antarctica for the 2022-23 field season.
June 18, 2013
Jessica Meir, who earned a doctorate in marine physiology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in 2009, has been selected in the newest group of space explorers by NASA.
October 23, 2014
It’s a scene that many parents have witnessed, helplessly. It’s time for dinner and your toddler is getting restless. The object of their wrath? The dinner plate, which goes flying off the table and spills its contents all over the floor.
