October 26, 2011
…taken from the 2007 wildfires in San Diego County in the Calit2 NexCAVE. At 39, Williams’ youthful demeanor and dressed-down sensibility stood out in sharp contrast to Fallows’ buttoned-up seriousness throughout their interview. He described how he got his start on a farm in Nebraska, where he would play with…
December 18, 2020
…Pacific Ocean. Cameras combat wildfires First responder observing real-time ALERTWildfire camera network feeds in UC San Diego’s VRroom. As California reacted to a record-breaking fire season this year, the ALERTWildfire camera network reached a milestone: installing more than 650 cameras across California. The network serves as a critical tool for…
May 16, 2024
Now funded with a new state grant, a team at UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute is developing “The Climate Games,” an educational video game set in locations already experiencing the impact of a changing climate.
July 7, 2022
…a year. Disasters like wildfires, severe storms, and earthquakes are ever-present,” Panchanathan said, making note of a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that occurred in 2018 in Anchorage, Alaska that is still causing aftershocks. Seismic shifts Both SOARS (ocean simulator) and the shake table are poised to provide a better understanding of…
May 30, 2024
For the second year, a group of community college students has been immersed into cutting-edge research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego through the Scripps Geosciences Educational Opportunities (Scripps-GEO) program.
October 12, 2023
El Niño and La Niña are natural climate phenomena that alter weather patterns around the world. El Niño occurs irregularly but shows up roughly every three to seven years and typically lasts between nine and 12 months with occasional exceptions that linger for multiple years.
November 19, 2020
…responders confirm and monitor wildfires across California. Students on beach at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Image courtesy of Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. Today, the research and scholarly activities of campus’s faculty and leaders are forging the path toward addressing the COVID-19 global health crisis. In an effort…
January 7, 2016
…prediction and visualization of wildfire behavior, as part of a project called WIFIRE. But, Altintas says, San Diego generates huge volumes of data from many sources — traffic sensors, satellites, camera networks and more. What if we could integrate and synthesize these data streams to do even more for our…
October 18, 2018
…new categories to year-round wildfire seasons to once-in-a-century floods happening multiple times in a decade – have largely been borne out. Oftentimes, predictions have been exposed in hindsight as having been too conservative. Even the shocking IPCC report understates the world’s predicament, according to researchers at Scripps and elsewhere. Researchers…
June 9, 2022
…seasons, the AIDS crisis, wildfire disasters and now the COVID-19 pandemic. We show up for each other and our patients every day,” said Dr. Ted Chan, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UC San Diego Health. “As our region continues to grow, particularly in the central and south…
