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November

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Gore, IPCC win Nobel Peace Prize

UN Science panel includes leading scientists from Scripps

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations-sponsored body of scientists that includes several from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with former Vice President Al Gore.

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Seeing the Light

Researchers discover fluorescence in important fish-like animal

In late summer of 2005, Dimitri Deheyn was going about his business inside the Experimental Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

Deheyn, a Scripps project scientist, was screening a variety of marine animals using a blue light, a device used to evaluate which organisms emit fluorescent light.

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A Lingering Hazard

Public health implications of wildfire smoke studied

While wildfires were threatening much of San Diego County and its residents last month, several researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego were analyzing the soot in local air to better understand the implications of urban fires as well as their implications on climate.

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