Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for The Lord of the Rings universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they’re very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...

When Nicole Yen isn’t in the ocean herself, she’s studying its mysteries and inspiring the next generation of scientists to dive in and explore it, too. She discovered her love for the ocean and its ...

A new study analyzing more than 2,300 seawater samples from around the world has found that human-made chemicals — from ...

Interested in working for Scripps Oceanography? Here are the current job openings and career opportunities for academics, staff, researchers, and more. The mission of Scripps Institution of ...

The primary area of research is air-sea interaction, including the topics of surface wave dynamics, air-sea fluxes, upper ocean turbulence, including Langmuir circulations, and the remote sensing of ...

Californians have long dealt with wildfire smoke as a seasonal fact of life, but those fires have become more intense and frequent, raising the profile of wildfire smoke as a public health issue. Now, ...

Leading experts from the University of California San Diego are set to return to Austin, Texas, for the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) conference to showcase groundbreaking research and innovation ...

At a time when climate conversations can feel overwhelming, a new celebration is flipping the script with music, movement and momentum! Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Birch ...

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 ...

We use sequence-based approaches, flow cytometry, modeling, and other techniques to explore the structure and function of microbial communities. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, ...

The study of the multiple ways that humans and society interact with the environment with disparate impacts as well as practical, inclusive approaches to address those impacts. Potential graduate ...