Mangroves in La Paz Bay, Mexico, stand at the edge of urban expansion, where development meets one of the most valuable ...

Scientists have developed a new method to measure ocean surface currents over large areas in greater detail than ever before.

Cryosphere and polar science study the frozen water part of the Earth system, ranging from the glaciers of Greenland to the ice sheets of the Antarctic. Antarctica photo by Jack Pan. Investigating ...

Apr 22 Physical Oceanography Seminar: Dr. Enric Pallàs Sanz (CICESE) Apr 29 Physical Oceanography Seminar: Dr. Jesse Cusack (OSU) ...

Studying the tectonic forces within the Earth give rise to continents, ocean basins, mountain ranges, earthquake belts, and most volcanoes, along with the resulting deformation of geological ...

What was the historical use of DDT and how was it disposed of? Commercial use of the insecticide DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) was banned in the United States ...

The study of the origin and history of the solar system, planets and natural satellites, interplanetary dust and interstellar medium, lunar samples, meteors, and meteorites, asteroids, comets, craters ...

The Marine Vertebrate Collection maintains approximately 2 million alcohol-preserved specimens in over 120,000 lots, representing more than 5,600 species of fishes. Since its beginnings in the 1940s, ...

It is bittersweet to write this message on what will be the final annual impact report of my tenure leading Scripps Institution of Oceanography. As many of you know, I will be stepping down from my ...

A promising brain cancer drug discovered from a deep sea ocean microbe by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego is making headway toward public use.