The occurrence of several whale and dolphin species in the Gulf of Mexico drastically dropped off in the decade following the ...

Hans Singh recently earned his PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, where he studied marine ...

We use sequence-based approaches, flow cytometry, modeling, and other techniques to explore the structure and function of microbial communities. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, ...

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 ...

Understanding the ecology, biogeochemical environment, marine conditions, and societal impacts of nearshore environments ranging from wetlands and estuaries to the edge of the continental shelf.

Studying the physiology and ecology of whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals through methods ranging from molecular ecology to tracking the movements of individuals and populations using ...

Why is oxygen important for the ocean, and what is ocean deoxygenation? Oxygen is important in the ocean for the same reasons it is important on land; the plants and animals that live there require ...

A satellite-mounted instrument has in just one year produced higher-resolution imagery of the global seafloor than that from comparable systems over the past 30 years. At present, ship-mounted ...

This year’s rainy season is underway, which means atmospheric rivers are set to dump rain and snow across California and the Pacific Northwest. It also means that specially outfitted aircraft are ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will award UC San Diego’s StartBlue accelerator program $13.5 million to evolve into a program called the StartBlue Ocean Enterprise ...

Amina Schartup is a marine biogeochemist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. She received her bachelor’s degree from Universite Paris V, her master’s degree from the Institut de ...