Robert Knox, a former associate director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and a visionary who helped ...

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 ...

Campus has launched the new Sponsored Projects Office (SPO) website developed with the community's feedback in mind to consolidate content from all sponsored project offices on campus: Office of ...

As a department of UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography offers degrees, minors, and more than 45 undergraduate courses covering a breadth of earth and marine sciences on a variety of ...

What was the historical use of DDT and how was it disposed of? Commercial use of the insecticide DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) was banned in the United States ...

FLIP, the FLoating Instrument Platform, was not a ship, but a 355-foot-long research platform that can be deployed for oceanographic research. Designed by scientists at Scripps's Marine Physical ...

What is carbon dioxide and how is it connected to climate change? Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is a colorless, odorless greenhouse gas produced by numerous natural processes and by human activities such as ...

Emeritus vessel: R/V NEW HORIZON A groundbreaking design by Scripps engineer Maxwell Silverman led to the development of the general-purpose research vessel New Horizon, which was used extensively by ...

Every year, Scripps Benthic Invertebrate Collection Curator Greg Rouse and collaborators discover new species of marine life, especially during exploratory expeditions to mysterious and fascinating ...

It is bittersweet to write this message on what will be the final annual impact report of my tenure leading Scripps Institution of Oceanography. As many of you know, I will be stepping down from my ...

Research vessel Robert Gordon Sproul at sea. Regional general-purpose research vessel serves research and education missions offshore California and the U.S. West Coast.

The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) approved the preliminary design of a first-of-its-kind hydrogen-hybrid research vessel that will join the fleet at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...