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June 2008

Revealing A Killer's Identity

Red tide discovery sheds new light on the role of bacteria in outbreaks

In six years as a Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego graduate student, Xavier Mayali extracted hundreds of water samples off the Scripps Pier, but the summer of 2005 was different. It was then that Mayali found a killer in the water.

Choking Oceans

Oxygen-starved regions of the seas are expanding

Scripps Institution of Oceanography physical oceanographer Janet Sprintall is among an international team of researchers that has discovered that oxygen-poor regions of tropical oceans are expanding as the oceans warm, limiting the areas in which predatory fishes and other marine organisms can live or enter in search of food.

Cold Hard Truth

New study reveals that possible life on Mars would be located deeper than previously thought

New findings from a team of scientists including Surdas Mohit of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, suggest that any liquid water that might exist below the surface of Mars, and any possible organisms living in that water, would be located deeper than scientists had suspected.