The San Diego Science Writers Association (SANDSWA) honored Brittany Hook, a communications specialist and science writer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, for her explorations ...

A team led by UC San Diego was able to mass-produce a key pigment, xanthommatin, that occurs in the psychedelic skin of many ...

Duncan Watson-Parris is an atmospheric physicist with appointments at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and ...

A new study has revealed that the Southern Ocean releases far more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during the winter than ...

A little more than twenty years ago, at the First International Congress of History of Oceanography in Monaco, the American historian of science Harold Burstyn attempted to place the history of ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

Research and Education Hale at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa celebrated its 15th anniversary on Oct. 25, marking a decade and a half of cutting-edge discovery and sustainable design. The ...

UC San Diego-led team discovers new method for producing large amounts of color-changing, nature-inspired pigment in the lab.

Looking to help attract and retain the next generation of marine scientists, UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla partnered with the nonprofit Black in Marine Science to ...

Women began to join US oceanographic expeditions in about 1960, contemporary with the modern women’s rights movements in the industrialized world. Female representation in academic research has ...