The cross-border San Diego South Bay-Tijuana region is home to state parks, a Marine Protected Area (MPA), a federally sponsored National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR), Navy bases, the Port of San ...

CASPO is a research unit of Scripps Institution of Oceanography where scientists engage in a wide variety of scientific topics involving mainly the physical ocean-atmosphere system, but including many ...

The bucket of preserved fish opens, but it doesn’t smell as bad as you might think. Like vinegar, with a hint of sardine. OK, maybe it’s bad, but if you’re Ben Frable, manager of the Marine Vertebrate ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography offers instruction leading to Master of Science (M.S.) degrees in oceanography, marine biology, and earth sciences.

Scripps Oceanography’s research vessels are ships and boats dedicated to serving as global, regional, and local platforms for research and instruction at sea.

Image caption: Example munitions surveyed by the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) during the 2023 seafloor survey of the San Pedro Basin. Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UC San Diego. See ...

The Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier is an icon of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a vital research facility. Spanning 1,084 feet in length, this cherished La Jolla landmark ...

How carbon dioxide affects climate change and how scientists know that carbon dioxide levels are increasing in the atmosphere, summarized by Scripps Oceanography scientists.

For the first time, the seasonal peak of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere exceeded 430 parts per million (ppm) at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory on Hawaii, scientists from NOAA and ...

The Research Vessel Bob and Betty Beyster is a purpose-built coastal research vessel designed for efficient operations offshore Southern California and throughout the Channel Islands. Operated by ...

IOD distinguishes itself as scientific home for researchers working at the boundaries of traditional academic spheres, and generating growing programs in the integration of research with informatics ...

California Politics. Literature and the Environment. Natural Disasters. These are just a few of the courses at UC San Diego that will fulfill its new climate change education requirement—the first of ...