February 28, 2012
The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) has announced the shipyard responsible for constructing the next chapter in ocean exploration for Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. The new research vessel will be owned by ONR for the Department of the Navy and operated by Scripps under charter…
April 16, 2013
U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the nation’s newest research vessel will be named R/V Sally Ride, in honor of the former UC San Diego faculty member who was the first American female astronaut and the youngest American to fly in space.
December 4, 2015
Charles “Chip” Cox, a professor emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, passed away on Nov. 30, 2015. Cox conducted research on oceanic electromagnetic fields and the exploration of small-scale ocean structures, including measuring fine-scale fluctuations in temperature and salinity within ocean waters to understand the intensity…
July 23, 2021
California legislators have allocated UC San Diego $35 million to design and build a new coastal research vessel with a first-of-its-kind hydrogen-hybrid propulsion system. The new vessel will be operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
July 18, 2022
Russ Davis, a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego who invented some of the most transformational ocean-observing instrumentation in history, died June 9, 2022, at the age of 81.
June 25, 2024
The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) approved the preliminary design of a first-of-its-kind hydrogen-hybrid research vessel that will join the fleet at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography when completed.
October 6, 2016
…midst of deploying 44 profiling floats – robots that dive and resurface in the ocean, measuring a range of characteristics from temperature and salinity to levels of oxygen in the water. (Check out a recent SOCCOM student field blog here.) SOCCOM researchers are also measuring the availability of nutrients at…
February 9, 2017
…a wirewalker (a vertically profiling instrument carrier powered by ocean waves), and CTD instrumentation (a package that includes sensors for measuring conductivity, temperature, and depth of seawater) make it possible for scientists to investigate internal waves and their impact on coastal ecosystems. “This is a pretty big experiment to run,”…
March 1, 2018
…the ocean while remotely profiling clouds with radar and lidar (light detection and ranging) instruments. “The Southern Ocean is a natural laboratory for looking at cloud processes as they occur naturally, in the absence of human influences,” said Eric DeWeaver, an NSF program director of The Division of Atmospheric and…
March 15, 2018
…of applications, including criminal profiling and environmental exposure studies. The study was published recently in Scientific Reports. Surfer, ocean steward and chemistry doctoral student Cliff Kapono is famous for setting off on a worldwide expedition to discover whether surfers have a unique microbiome—but he stayed indoors for this study, which…
