Elegant terns travel from Chile and Peru to nest at Mexico’s Isla Rasa in the Gulf of California.
Global concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide are measured at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory as part of the famous “Keeling Curve” record.
Replica ocean-atmosphere system on Scripps campus gives important clues on how marine life is linked to cloud formation
Scientists learn more about fluorescent light that shifts color over coral’s lifetime
Twice a year, the setting sun lines up with Scripps Pier. May 2, 2013 was such a night. Photo: John H. Moore
Cross-polarized light image of sample MG1001 from the island of Mangaia in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
A leafy seadragon at Birch Aquarium at Scripps. The aquarium has launched a seadragon breeding program to improve the success of captive breeding of the rare animals. Photo: John Bryant
Walter Munk, considered the “world’s greatest living oceanographer,” was invited to sit in the driller’s chair during a November 2012 visit to Chikyu
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