Coral larvae are picky about where they attach and settle down. One of the ways they decide is by “smelling” chemicals in the water that are associated with healthy reefs.

Diego Melgar earned his PhD in geophysics from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in 2014. He came to ...

In 2020, more than 350 African savanna elephants mysteriously died in Botswana’s Seronga region in just two months. Many of ...

Noreen Garcia is a sixth-year PhD candidate studying marine chemistry and geochemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA announced the creation of an engineered bacterium that has the ability to convert the toxic form of mercury present in ...

The study of the physiology and ecology of animals that don't have backbones, ranging from worms to sea stars, and of parasites, which can often provide insights into complex ecosystems. (Sea star ...

IOD distinguishes itself as scientific home for researchers working at the boundaries of traditional academic spheres, and generating growing programs in the integration of research with informatics ...

One of Scripps's longest-running data centers, serving reference-quality hydrographic ocean data to an international community for over 20 years Studies fundamental physical processes that govern ...

The interface between marine chemistry and marine biology, ranging from natural products chemistry and biotechnology to biogeochemistry and biochemistry relating to marine systems. Many of our ...

The primary area of research is air-sea interaction, including the topics of surface wave dynamics, air-sea fluxes, upper ocean turbulence, including Langmuir circulations, and the remote sensing of ...