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.
December 23, 2020
This wasn’t Noah’s flood. But it was still a catastrophic event that profoundly changed the landscape and could have given rise to legends, too. Study identifies oldest known paleo tsunami in the Eastern Mediterranean.
November 19, 2015
…glimpse into the underwater lives of these powerful marine mammals and allowed them to fill in some “really important blanks” in their knowledge about this species. “Leopard seals are often portrayed as these large, ferocious apex predators, and in many cases they are—but with new technologies and additional study, including…
April 16, 2024
The University of California San Diego was awarded $7.35 million in funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health for a multidisciplinary program to advance understanding of marine contaminants and nutrients.
April 30, 2024
…waters off Southern California. Marine scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NOAA, and other organizations seized the opportunity to study the unprecedented event and its impacts on marine life, both in the wild and in aquariums. In a recent study, this multi-institutional team identified deteriorating water quality…
October 21, 2015
Donald Walter Wilkie, director of the Scripps Aquarium-Museum from 1965-1993 and founding director of the Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum (now known as Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego), died on October 5, 2015, in San Diego. He was 84 years old.
April 6, 2016
…of scientific experts including Andrew Dickson, a professor of marine chemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
March 14, 2018
…the base of the marine food chain by showing how the loss of seawater carbonate hampers the ability of phytoplankton to grab onto iron. High concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) could decrease phytoplankton growth, restricting the ability of the ocean to absorb CO2 and thus leading to ever higher…
December 10, 2020
…the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology. “The challenge was to find a way for our UC San Diego team to collaborate with our Israeli colleagues in a meaningful and useful way, while stuck in southern California.” The team is currently in the process of using QI’s cutting-edge visualization facilities to…
May 1, 2024
UC San Diego was founded on the former U.S. Marine Corps base Camp Matthews, and students have lived and learned among its decommissioned buildings ever since. Now, a new center of campus is taking shape: the Triton Center and its eye-catching tower, the Triton Alumni and Welcome Center.
