March 13, 2017
A For over a century, scientists have been trying to understand what causes red tides to form in coastal areas seemingly out of nowhere. Using a novel technique developed by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego scientist George Sugihara and colleagues, that mystery is finally…
August 9, 2024
The Nanotechnology Summer Institute at the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute guides middle and high school teachers through integrating nanotechnology into their science curricula.
September 12, 2014
Gismos, gadgets, widgets ... Ingenuity in developing precise and efficient tools is an important key to unlocking the mysteries of the ocean. Observing the oceans in real time is crucial to understanding and protecting the planet. Private support can make a significant difference in the speed with which new oceanographic…
September 10, 2018
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed a groundbreaking University of California San Diego atmospheric chemistry research program with a $20 million grant that will support operations for a second five-year period. The grant will enable the NSF Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment (CAICE) to launch…
October 15, 2013
An ambitious new study that includes Lisa Levin of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego describes the full chain of events by which ocean biogeochemical changes triggered by manmade greenhouse gas emissions may cascade through marine habitats and organisms, penetrating to the deep ocean and eventually influencing humans.
October 6, 2016
…of the balloons transported phytoplankton to see how it would grow at high altitude and extremely low temperatures. The research was a collaboration with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. UC San Diego computer science alumnus Stephen Foster also gave a talk about virtual reality. Foster is…
November 18, 2021
…to change nature, grow phytoplankton under natural light provided by skylights in an ocean warmed to temperatures found in equatorial waters. As with its predecessor wind-wave channel, SOARS will use filtered seawater delivered in from the Pacific Ocean via pumps on Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier. Crucial for experiments is…
February 21, 2022
The salinity of freshwater ecosystems caused by road de-icing salts, agriculture fertilizers, mining operations and climate change is increasing worldwide and current water quality guidelines don’t do enough to address the issue, an international study with UC San Diego scientists has found.
March 14, 2024
The forward-thinking innovators behind Vektor Medical and FjordPhyto took home the top prizes during UC San Diego’s inaugural Chancellor’s Innovation Awards celebration, highlighting the university’s diverse entrepreneurial campus culture.
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.
