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Feature of the Month

Clearing the Air

Clearing the Air

A Scripps researcher hopes to demonstrate that improving developing world cooking methods could slow global warming and improve public health along the way More...

Research Highlights

Threatened Gulf

Threatened Gulf

Scripps researchers launch program to monitor the health of the Gulf of California, a region endangered by destructive new fishing methods. More...

A Deeply Hawaiian Hotspot

A Deeply Hawaiian Hotspot

Findings suggest hotspot is the result of a lower-mantle plume. More...

How's Your River Running?

How's Your River Running?

New technology enables researchers to detect wide range of responses to climate change. More...


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Around the Pier

Down to Earth

Scripps alumna returns to campus to recount historic shuttle mission

Down to Earth Almost everyone takes a few pictures when they go on a trip. Almost no one, though, comes back with the kind of material that Megan McArthur gathered. More


Marine-based Medicine Catalog Proposal Wins YPO Competition

Proposal nets $10,000 and push from business community

Marine-based Medicine Catalog Proposal Wins YPO Competition George Nicola and Bill Gerwick's plan to build a library of new ocean drug sources wins $10,000 and distinction within a business networking organization. More


In Full Bloom

Scripps’ newest oceanfront venue awarded “orchid” for architecture

In Full Bloom In terms of community acclaim the Scripps Seaside Forum is coming up roses…or orchids rather. More


Scripps in the News

  • Climate Change Challenges
    KPBS (Radio) - Feb 2, 2010
    Just when it looked like global warming was becoming an accepted part of reasonable peoples' world view, a scandal erupts. Last November, emails written by the director of a British climate research unit were leaked and those emails appear to show an attempt to manipulate global temperature data. Global warming skeptics have seized on the scandal. (Features an interview with Scripps researcher Ralph Keeling.)
  • Cascadia Quake Zone Gets Wired Up
    Nature - Jan 28, 2010
    Just off the Pacific Northwest coast, the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate dives beneath North America, shuddering and occasionally releasing the accumulated stress as a major earthquake. Yet the Cascadia zone remains relatively sparsely studied. "People haven't appreciated the level of hazard there for both an earthquake and a tsunami," says project member John Orcutt, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. "

Voyager for Kids


What’s the link between air pollution and climate?

In this month's Q & A:

What’s the link between air pollution and climate?

  • Since soot has detrimental effects on humans and their surroundings, why aren't solar stoves used worldwide? More
  • To what extent does biomass burning add to the increase in climate change? More

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