Research by atmospheric scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and colleagues pinpointed an ...

University of California San Diego marine microbiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Farooq Azam has been selected ...

The closest thing marine taxonomists have to the Olympics is now underway in San Diego. But instead of racing for medals, ...

Peter Lonsdale, a professor and researcher of marine geology at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, died May 10, 2026, at the age of 78. Over more than five decades at Scripps ...

Mangroves in La Paz Bay, Mexico, stand at the edge of urban expansion, where development meets one of the most valuable coastal ecosystems on Earth. Credit: Octavio Aburto/Scripps Institution of ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has received a $15 million grant from the Fund for Science and Technology (FFST). This support will expand observational ...

The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) satellite is one of two next generation satellites selected by NASA to help better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee environmental events ...

The Atmospheric River Reconnaissance program joins forces with research programs across the world to improve forecasts of extreme weather events “We know that better measurements of atmospheric rivers ...

A team of researchers including oceanographer Lia Siegelman of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography co-authored a new study that describes storm-like ocean circulation patterns beneath ...

UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography will identify the most pressing issues affecting the ocean at the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30), the United Nations-convened annual meeting ...

Leaders from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Sonoma County Water Agency (Sonoma Water), UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography Center of Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) ...