May 19, 2016
…with a team of climate scientists at Scripps Oceanography, Kennel helped create a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on climate change titled “Climate Change in Four Dimensions.” The popular course is open to all UC San Diego students as well as anyone with access to the Internet. Kennel also…
October 5, 2017
…in California from the climate pattern known as El Niño in winter 2015-16, but the actual precipitation was far less than expected. A National Science Foundation-supported study led by climate scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego offers an explanation why. “Comparing this El…
March 31, 2016
The Climate Change at the Crossroads series salutes renowned climate scientists at the UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography with three events that will shed light on different facets of climate change.
March 20, 2014
…new perspectives on human-caused climate change As simulated by computer models, the average mean change in frequency of dry days (days/year) by 2060-2089, relative to the historical period 1960-1989, factoring in anthropogenic climate change. Image by Scientific Reports New studies involving researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San…
September 12, 2017
…to Lead Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Mark Merrifield to coordinate Scripps Oceanography’s effort to provide real-world response strategies to increasing climate instability Mark Merrifield Mark Merrifield, who has spent the past two decades studying global and regional sea-level change, will lead a new research center at Scripps…
October 23, 2015
…leaders and UC’s top climate and energy experts will gather at UC San Diego for the UC Summit on Carbon and Climate Neutrality Oct. 26-27. The summit will explore UC’s groundbreaking research on climate change and deliver 10 scalable solutions for slowing climate change that can be applied to California,…
January 16, 2020
An international team of scientists has synthetically engineered mosquitoes that halt the transmission of the dengue virus. The development marks the first engineered approach in mosquitoes that targets the four known types of dengue, improving upon previous designs that addressed single strains.
January 4, 2017
The idea of climate change causing a major ocean circulation pattern in the Atlantic Ocean to collapse with catastrophic effects is mostly regarded as an extreme longshot but a new paper based on analysis done at a group of research centers including Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of…
October 24, 2023
A new report led by the University of California San Diego’s David G. Victor and fellow experts from the Commission on Accelerating Climate Action at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, calls for a robust and coordinated, cross-sector effort to combat climate change.
April 8, 2024
Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy have developed a new method to predict the financial impacts climate change will have on agriculture, which can help support food security and financial stability for countries.
