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New Features for Kids!

Check out Scripps Oceanography's Earthguide for ocean and earth stories, visuals and games

Check out Scripps Oceanography's Earthguide for ocean and earth stories, visuals and games

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Feature of the Month

Discovering Diversity In The Tropics

Discovering Diversity In The Tropics

Scripps researchers hunt for exotic medicine sources in Panama's diverse richness More...

Research Highlights

Uncovering Lake Tahoe's Faults

Uncovering Lake Tahoe's Faults

Two newly published papers provide a deeper look at earthquake vulnerability for the Lake Tahoe region More...

Saving the World’s Fisheries

Saving the World’s Fisheries

Global audit finds management most effective when policy-making is transparent More...

The 200-Year Drought

The 200-Year Drought

New high-resolution analysis enables Scripps scientists to track ancient monsoon shift More...


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Around the Pier

Don't be Deceived, They're Going to Leave

Birch Aquarium's popular Art of Deception will be making room for a new exhibit this fall

 Don't be Deceived, They're Going to Leave t's known that the marine creatures in the Art of Deception exhibit at Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, are good at hiding, but seekers of these deceptive animals won't be able to find them at all after September 20, when the exhibit officially closes. More


Aloha Scripps Day!

Celebrating all things Scripps

Aloha Scripps Day! More than 300 Hawaiian shirt-clad Scripps students, faculty, staff,
    alumni, donors, and friends gathered on the Scripps campus June 12
    for the second annual Scripps Day to celebrate another great year at
    Scripps – Hawaiian style.
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Bridging the Earth Science Gap

New Scripps fellowship program brings cutting-edge earth systems science into San Diego middle and high schools

Bridging the Earth Science Gap National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego a $3 million grant to fund a new program that pairs Scripps earth systems science students with high school science teachers and their classes. More


Scripps in the News

Voyager for Kids


How does nature provide us medicines?

In this month's Q & A:

How does nature provide us medicines?

  • How do scientists find medicines in the wilderness? More
  • How do you know if a compound kills cancer cells? How is it tested? More

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