Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a renowned climate scientist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Crafoord Prize — one of the world’s most ...

Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a renowned climate and atmospheric scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, will receive the Blue Planet Prize, the international environmental award ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...

Science is an essential part of a liberal-arts education. At nearly every college and university, students can study the pure sciences of physics, chemistry, and biology, and usually one applied ...

Scientists have long used the speed of seismic waves traveling through the Earth as a means of learning about the geologic structure beneath the Earth's surface, but the seismic waves they use have ...

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New research led by Lia Siegelman, a physical oceanographer at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, shows that the roiling storms at the planet Jupiter's polar regions are powered by ...

The oceans cover approximately 71% of the earth’s surface, and play a critical role in global climate through storage and transport of heat and carbon dioxide. Interactions between the ocean and ...

A new public overlook is coming to UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography campus in La Jolla following a vote of support from the California Coastal Commission during its meeting Sept. 12.

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Physical oceanography examines the motions, properties and processes that influence the world’s oceans. It is concerned with currents, waves, tides, internal mixing and the exchanges that occur both ...