January 18, 2017
…a simple question: If life started today in our plastic debris-filled oceans, what kinds of life forms would emerge out of the contemporary primordial ooze? The exhibition, “An Ecosystem of Excess”, opens February 2 and runs through March 17.
May 17, 2018
…from using or selling plastic cutlery. Last year, the Indian capital of Delhi banned all plastic bags entirely. These decisions are part of a growing concern about the fact that plastic doesn’t just disappear when it’s thrown in the trash—it can take hundreds of years to decompose, leading to long-term…
May 5, 2022
…developing eco-friendly alternatives to plastic. Algeon Materials’s presentation was helmed by co-founder Kim Pendergrass, an MBA candidate at the Rady School of Management. Algeon is a team in the Rady MBA capstone course Lab to Market and a member of the first cohort of UC San Diego’s startBlue accelerator, focused…
December 9, 2019
The 25th Conference of the Parties, or COP 25, run by the United Nations, is underway in Madrid until Dec. 13 and many University of California San Diego faculty and scholars are playing key roles in the event.
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.
June 23, 2022
…students creates sustainable, biodegradable plastic alternatives Kim Pendergrass It’s already been a big year for Algeon Materials, a biotechnology company creating sustainable, biodegradable alternatives to plastic from kelp. It recently completed its journey with the inaugural cohort of the startBlue Accelerator Program, an eight-month incubator for blue-tech startups. Adding to…
January 6, 2023
UC San Diego researchers suggest that rising levels of manmade chemicals, accumulating in marine plankton, might be used to monitor the impact of human activity on ecosystem health and perhaps study links between ocean pollution and land-based rates of childhood and adult chronic illnesses.
December 13, 2011
…researchers’ laboratories—are in trouble. Pollution, overfishing, warming, and acidification of the oceans are pushing the seas into states they’ve never seen before. During race week, America’s Cup dedicated a day to its Healthy Ocean Project with Scripps science in the spotlight. The 2009 SEAPLEX voyage led by Miriam Goldstein and…
February 28, 2019
…land to make sure pollution, plastic and trash don’t reach the ocean.” Romo upcycles trash and waste into art—like a map made of 3,500 plastic bottles featured in the San Diego Airport, representative of the number of plastic bottles thrown away every second in the U.S. He also repurposes waste…
October 27, 2022
The University of California San Diego has been ranked among the top 20 universities in the world, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2022-2023 Best Global Universities.
